Lecture Notes for February 6

Read for Today

• Sections 3.1 and 3.2.

Topics to Cover Today

• Scope
  • Binding: name => meaning
  • The binding timeline
  • efficiency versus flexibility (e.g., polymorphism, compiling versus interpreting)
  • static versus dynamic
• Lifetime and Storage Management
  • Static allocation
  • Stack allocation
  • Heap allocation