1.1.2 Naming and the Environment

Question 1

variable

Answer 1

an abstract storage location paired with an associated symbolic name that stores a value

Question 2

the object a variable stores

Answer 2

value

Question 3

keyword used to create a variable

Answer 3

define

Question 4

The possibility of associating values with symbols and later retrieving them means that the interpreter must maintain some sort of memory that keeps track of the name-object pairs. What is this memory called?

Answer 4

enviroment

(more precisely the global environment)