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HoldRest

HoldRest
is an attribute which specifies that all but the first argument to a function are to be maintained in an unevaluated form.
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Implement your own conditional:
Properties & Relations   (4)
Use Evaluate to force evaluation of an argument of a HoldRest function:
Suppress the evaluation of all but the first argument of a pure function:
Sequence splitting still happens for HoldRest functions:
NHoldRest protects arguments from N, but evaluates them normally otherwise:
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