单词 | variable name |
释义 | > as lemmasvariable name b. Computing. A data item that can take on more than one value during or between programs and is stored in a particular designated area of memory; the area of memory itself; (also variable name) the name referring to such an item or location. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [noun] > variable variable1837 global variable1961 society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [noun] > identifier > for data items or locations variable name1967 1837 C. Babbage in B. Randell Origins Digital Computers (1973) 23 The number of variables which can be contained within the store will depend on the length of the rack. 1843 Scientific Mem. III. 666 We have..written Variable with a capital letter when we use the word to signify a column of the engine, and variable with a small letter when we mean the variable of a formula. 1957 Proc. IRE-AIEE-ACM Western Joint Computer Conf. 190/1 The programmer may also employ subscripted variables having three independent subscripts. 1967 R. Beckett & J. Hurt Numerical Calculations & Algorithms i. 23 Variable names are usually limited in length because they must be coded as numbers and space is required to store these numbers... The number of characters used to define a variable is arbitrary, provided that it does not exceed a given maximum. 1972 S. Bergman & S. Bruckner Introd. Computers & Computer Programming ix. 288 [In FORTRAN] the data locations are divided into constants and variables... Variables are locations into which we may read numbers or place (store) numbers at execution time. 1975 H. Katzan Introd. Computer Sci. v. 108 The names hours, rate, and pay are variables... A variable is an identifier that names a data item. 1979 Sci. Amer. Dec. 85/1 In programming languages a variable is not an item of data but a label for a location in the memory of the computer. The value of a variable at any moment is the information currently stored there. 1981 W. S. Davis Computers & Business Information Processing xiii. 234 A FORTRAN variable consists of from one to six letters or digits, the first of which must be a letter. 1982 Cooper & Clancy Oh! Pascal! i. 10 The variables that computers use are like the memory keys of hand calculators—they store values... Variables can hold different types of values, including integers.., characters.., or even logical values. < as lemmas |
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