finalevaluated

Finalevaluated is a label used in some software systems to indicate that an object, value, or record has undergone a final evaluation pass and is considered complete or immutable. The term combines final and evaluated to convey that no further processing or transformation is expected unless a re-evaluation is explicitly triggered. It is not a formal standard, but a practical designation in custom codebases.

In programming, finalevaluated can refer to results produced by compile-time or run-time optimization, such as constant folding, where expressions are reduced to constants that are then treated as final. In data processing and validation pipelines, a finalevaluated flag may mark records that have passed all validation rules and business checks; such records may be restricted from edits without initiating a re-evaluation.

Typical implementation uses a boolean or an enumerated status field with states such as unevaluated, evaluating, evaluated, and finalevaluated. In many systems, finalevaluated implies immutability: once set, changes require a reset to a non-final state and a new evaluation cycle.

Etymology-wise, finalevaluated is a compound term formed for clarity in codebases rather than a canonical industrial standard. Variants such as final-evaluated or camelCase finalEvaluated appear in different projects.

See also: evaluation, immutability, state machines, constant folding, validation pipelines.