"Memoization" is caching the results of expensive method calls for speed.

In Ruby, this is often implemented something like this:

def my_expensive_method
  @my_expensive_method ||= one + two * three
end

or

def my_expensive_method
  @my_expensive_method ||= begin
    one
    two
    three
  end
end

Clearly this needs a name.

I've always thought of it as "rose memoization", because of the @ ||= pattern. It looks like an ASCII rose.

I was amazed not to find any (any!) Google results for that term, so now this post exists.

Are there any other terms in use for this construct?

(Parenthetically, I recommend memoit for any non-trivial memoization. I also recommend not memoizing at all in many cases.)