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Reusing Variable Names

If a variable name exists, and another variable is made with the same name, the first variable is ``killed''. Therefore, it is not necessary to kill a variable before reusing its name. A name can be reused if an operation is performed and the result of that operation is stored in one of the operands. For example: ``add m n m'' will add the matrices m and n and store the result in m.



Sorin Popescu
Fri Feb 14 17:37:19 EST 1997