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Name Binding ○｜Definition｜1st｜20251119205401-00-⌔
Name binding
In computer programming, name binding is the association of a data or code entity with an identifier.1 An identifier bound to an entity is said to reference that entity. A machine language has no built-in notion of identifiers, but name-entity binding as a service and notation for the programmer is implemented by higher-level programming languages. Binding is intimately connected with scoping, as scope determines which names bind to which entities – at which locations in the program code (lexically) and in which one of the possible execution paths (temporally).
Use of an identifier id in a context that establishes a binding for id is called a binding (or defining) occurrence. In all other occurrences (e.g., in expressions, assignments, and subprogram calls), an identifier stands for what it is bound to; such occurrences are called applied occurrences.
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Microsoft (May 11, 2007), Using early binding and late binding in Automation, Microsoft, retrieved May 11, 2009 ↩
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