Block structure: Retention or deletion? (extended abstract (1971)
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Daniel M. Berry
| Venue: | In Conference Record of the Third Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing |
| Citations: | 4 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Berry71blockstructure:,
author = {Daniel M. Berry},
title = {Block structure: Retention or deletion? (extended abstract},
booktitle = {In Conference Record of the Third Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing},
year = {1971},
pages = {86--100}
}
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Abstract
Abstract: The question as to the correct block exit strategy, retention or deletion, is resolved by formally comparing the contour model and the stack model, each of which implements one of the strategies, to the copy rule, a formal definition of block structuring. Block structure was introduced with the programming language Algol 60 [Nau 60,63] primarily to provide the ability to define local variables. Since then the notion of block structure has been
