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This chapter opens the last part of the book where PCF is extended with new features. This chapter focuses on references and assignments, and thus shifts from functional to imperative programming. A semantics is given for PCF with references and the interpretor of Chap. 3 is extended.
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Dowek, G., Lévy, JJ. (2011). References and Assignment. In: Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-076-2_7
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