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Programming Language Theory Concept

State

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  • computation theory
  • language feature design
  • program analysis
  • semantics

The complete configuration of an Abstract machine at a point during evaluation, comprising the current term and any auxiliary data (e.g., Environment, store, stack). In Pure/Untyped lambda calculus, the state is simply a Lambda term.