Term (programming) in the context of Modular programming

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In computer programming, a language construct is a syntactically allowable part of a program that may be formed from one or more lexical tokens in accordance with the rules of the programming language, as defined by in the ISO/IEC 2382 standard (ISO/IEC JTC 1).A term is defined as a "linguistic construct in a conceptual schema language that refers to an entity".

While the terms "language construct" and "control structure" are often used synonymously, there are additional types of logical constructs within a computer program, including variables, expressions, functions, or modules.

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Term (programming) in the context of Type systems

A programming language consists of a system of allowed sequences of symbols (constructs) together with rules that define how each construct is interpreted. For example, a language might allow expressions representing various types of data, expressions that provide structuring rules for data, expressions representing various operations on data, and constructs that provide sequencing rules for the order in which to perform operations.

A simple type system for a programming language is a set of rules that associates a data type (for example, integer, floating point, string) with each term (data-valued expression) in a computer program. In more ambitious type systems, a variety of constructs, such as variables, expressions, functions, and modules, may be assigned types.

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Term (programming) in the context of Type systems