Expression (computer science)
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title:
Expression (computer science)
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In computer science, an expression is a syntactic entity in a programming language that may be evaluated to determine its value. It is a combination of one or more constants, variables, functions, and operators that the programming language interprets and computes to produce another value. This process, for mathematical expressions, is called evaluation.
In simple settings, the resulting value is usually one of various primitive types, such as string, boolean, or numerical. Expressions are often
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Syntactic entity in a programming language with a determinable value
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_(computer_science)
date created:
2004-08-29T00:18:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T16:19:50Z
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