Lecture 12

Lecture 12: Names, Bindings and Scopes
Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Agenda

Announcements
- Problem Set 4: [HTML] [PDF] is your outside of class focus for this week
- Wrap up Lab 5: More Syntax if you haven't already
Names, bindings, and scopes
- variables
  - names
  - addresses
  - types
  - values
- binding
  - type bindings
  - storage bindings
- scope
  - global scope
  - named constants
Some time to wrap up Lab 5: More Syntax and/or get help with Problem Set 4: [HTML] [PDF]
Assignment due in Canvas at the start of our next class: Read Sebesta Chapter 5, and indicate that you have done so by entering your name as your response in the Canvas assignment. This assignment is worth 15 points in the "Assignments" category. We will be spending some time in class on Thursday working through some of the questions at the end of the chapter as a group.

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

Links