\title{Static and Dynamic Semantics of a Simple Programming Language} \author{Bernhard K. Aichernig and Andreas Kerschbaumer\footnote{Institute for
Software Technology, Technical University Graz. M\"unzgrabenstr. 11/II,
A-8010 Graz, Austria. E-mail: {\tt\{aichernig | kerschbaumer\}@ist.tu-graz.ac.at}.}} \date{21. May 1998}
\section{Introduction}
The following example has been an assignment in the
exercises of the software technology course at the Technical
University Graz, Austria.
A VDM-SL specification of the static and dynamic semantics of a
typed imperative programming language is to be developed. The abstract
syntax and an informal description of the semantics of the language
is given.
{\bf Static semantics.} The static semantics should define and
check the well-formedness of programs in the given language. This
includes static type checking, the complete and unambiguous
definition of all variables inside program blocks, and scoping.
{\bf Dynamic semantics.} The dynamic semantics associates a
meaning to a programming language. In this example the dynamic
semantics is a function mapping a program to its final global
environment, which is the state of all global
variables after execution.
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