non-strict
Adjective
Meaning
Not strict.
(mathematics) Of an inequality, such that it includes the possibility of equality.
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Examples
States with non-strict voter ID laws may let a person vote if he or she signs an affidavit certifying identity, or may allow election workers to verify whether the person was registered, without the voter having to take any further action.
Being able to choose the order of evaluation (see lazy evaluation and non-strict functions ) enables the creation of new syntactic constructs (e.g. control structures ) indistinguishable from those built into the language.
For non-strict functional languages, functions and language constructs exist to achieve the same result, but they are not necessarily called control flow statements.
Strict and non-strict partial orders In some contexts, the partial order defined above is called a non-strict (or reflexive, or weak) partial order.
The distinction between strict and non-strict well orders is often ignored since they are easily interconvertible.
We can define or explain the way a set is totally ordered by any of these four relations; the notation implies whether we are talking about the non-strict or the strict total order.