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Programs use names or “entities”, to denote run-time values. A distinctive property of most programs is that some of their entities, called “variable entities” or just variables, can denote different successive values during execution. The previous examples have implicitly relied on such changes of values, but we have not yet seen the basic change operation, assignment.
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Meyer, B. (2013). Variables, assignment and references. In: Touch of Class. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92145-5_9
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