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Quote: referential transparency means that the value of an expression is determined by the values of its sub-expressions
Topic:
value as an abstraction
Topic:
referential transparency
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One of the most useful properties of expressions … [Word and Object, 1960] referential transparency. In essence this means that if we wish … to know about the sub-expression is its value. … Thus we expect the expressions 'sin(6)' 'sin(1+5) 'sin(30/5)' … the symbol 6 in all circumstances as, for … and assumes that these have been identified by … Google-1 Google-2
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Quote: the symbol string 1+5 is not 6 in all circumstances, for example 21+52; requires syntactic analysis
Topic: value as an abstraction (25 items)
Topic: referential transparency (26 items)