Computer programming constraint allowing to bind a symbolic name to an object, valid in a well-defined scope, and to resolve it as a reference by a static or dynamic linking process
Also known as name resolution · binding
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In computer programming, name binding is the association of a data or code entity with an identifier. An identifier bound to an entity is said to reference that entity. A machine language has no built-in notion of identifiers, but name-entity binding as a service and notation for the programmer is implemented by higher-level programming languages. Binding is intimately connected with scoping, as scope determines which names bind to which entities – at which locations in the program code (lexically) and in which one of the possible execution paths (temporally).