Computer Science 340
Programming Languages

Fall 2019, Siena College

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Agenda

• Announcements
  • no classes on Friday!
  • Problem Set 4: [HTML] [PDF] due Sunday night
  • Exam 1 Monday night
• Exam 1: practice questions, format, etc.
• Problem Set 2 back and brief discussion
• Names, binding, and scopes
  • programs in the "names" example
  • discussion guided by responses in the Google document

Terminology

• keywords
• reserved words
• aliases
• binding: static and dynamic
• type inferencing
• strongly-typed language
• type checking
• type coercion
• type errors
• storage binding
• allocation and deallocation
• lifetime of a variable
• static, stack-dynamic, explicit heap-dynamic, implicit heap-dynamic allocation and deallocation
• run-time stack
• heap
• scope and visibility
• local, non-local, global variables
• scope rules: static/lexical vs. dynamic

Examples

• names

Links

• C++ Keywords