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Quote: a data type is semantically transparent if primitive operations create new values instead of altering existing ones; makes value and pointer semantics the same
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call a data type semantically transparent if all … currently represented in storage [i.e., write-once]. … If all data types in a language are … value semantics are largely implemented using pointers and … Google-1 Google-2
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Quote: use pointer semantics and semantically transparent types to implement value semantics; e.g., SETL
Group: data type (34 topics, 723 quotes)
Topic: variable as reference to a value (21 items)
Topic: value as an object (29 items)