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Most people learn more effectively when they study in small groups and cooperate in various other ways on homework. This can be particularly true in programming assignments, where working with a partner often helps to avoid careless errors. We are very much in favor of this kind of cooperation, so long as all participants actively involve themselves

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Abstraction Elements of a Language(or Engineering Design) Primitives, means of combination means of abstraction What weve seen Procedural Abstraction. ambda-captures common patterns and Deep question

Evaluation and universal machines The Eval/Apply Cycle What is the role of evaluation in defining a language? Eval and Apply execute a cycle that unwinds our abstractions Reduces to simple applications of built in

The 6.001 Lazy Meta-Circular Evaluator The Core Evaluator (define (l-eval exp env) (cond ((self-evaluating? exp) exp) ((variable? exp)(lookup-variable-value exp env)) ((quoted? exp)(text-of-quotation exp)) ((assignment? exp)(eval-assignment exp env)) ((definition? exp)(eval-definition exp env)) ((if? exp)(eval-if exp env))

Slide 17.1.1 Normal Order(Lazy) Evaluation Over the past few lectures, we have been looking at evaluation especially how to implement eval and apply in a anguage such as Scheme, in order to define a language. What we have seen is that by creating, or specifying, eval and its associated procedures, we actually define the semantics of the

Slide 16.1.1 Building up a language Last time, we completed building our evaluator. And as you saw, we slightly misled you. We started off saying we were going to user Scheme's lexical analyzer and parser, but then build our own evaluator, which we did initially for arithmetic

Slide 15.6.1 The next stage in the evolution of our evaluator is to pull the 5. Environment as explicit parameter environment out as an explicit parameter. Up until now we could rely on just having a single environment in which to store (eva1'(pus*64)) bindings for variables. It made sense to have a global