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Expression (computer science)

In computer science, an expression is a syntactic entity in a programming language that may be evaluated to determine its value of a specific semantic type. It is a combination of one or more constants, variables, functions, and operators that the programming language interprets (according to its particular rules of precedence and of association) and…

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Expression (computer science)

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Avg. degree1.96
Density0.043478
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when performing benchmark testing.It depends on the particular programming language specification whether an expression with no abstract side effects can legally be eliminated from the execution path by the processing environment in which the expression is evaluatedinstance ofand might even be regarded as the primary effect0.80text

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