Class 14: The Semantics of SIMPLE

Held Wednesday, February 24

Summary

• Reading: The Scheme Report: Formal Syntax and Semantics

Contents

Handouts

• Quiz 2

Notes

• Oh boy, we have a quiz. There will be another quiz on Friday.
• Those of you who skipped class on Monday will need to come to my office for your exams and the handout.
• For Friday, finish column 2 of p. 41 (and the accompanying stuff on pp. 42 and 43).
• As you can tell, today's class is at least partially based on ``recitation''.

The Semantics of SIMPLE

• See an earlier class outline.
• Semantics of statement lists
• Semantics of the various kinds of statements
• Observation about the semantics of expressions
• Meanings of loops

History

• Created Tuesday, January 19, 1999 as a blank outline.
• Filled in a few details on Monday, February 22, 1999.
• Added the rest of the details on Wednesday, February 24, 1999. [All new! Not from previous classes.]
• Moved all those nice new details to the next outline on Thursday, February 25, 1999.