Typing environment
In type theory a typing environment (or variable assignment) represents the association between variables names and data types. More formally an environment is a set or ordered list of pairs , usually written as , where is a variable and its type.
In statically typed programming languages these environments are used and maintained by type rules to type check a given program or expression.
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