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Also see [[Semantics]]

Compiler Construction Chapter 1: Introduction

The followig are techical (or at least technically used) terms from chapter 1 that I don't understand:

  • environments p11 : Symbol Tables (Which I have never been properly introduced too either) mapping variable names to information about the variables.
  • "side effects" : assignment statements that update variables and data structures. Does that mean that updating a variable is a side effect? I thought assignement statements directly affected change in the variables not that through some unknown or unrelated consequent action a variable happened to be updated by an assignemnt or update statement.
  • Denotational sematics : no definition given
  • Attribute grammars : this and the previous one "are methods for describing what programming languages do."

Also see Semantics

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