Subroutines and Control Abstraction

Question 1

What is a Control Abstraction?

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Question 2

What goes on behind the scenes when calling a subroutine?

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Question 3

What are the three main places when maintaining a stack?

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Question 4

Calling Sequence Info:

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Question 5

Function caller or callee tasks:

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Question 6

One thing that can be done with procedures is inline expansion. What is this?

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Question 7

What are some inline keywords in C and Ada?

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Question 8

Parameter Passing Info:

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Question 9

Parameter Passing by Value:

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Question 10

Parameter Passing by Reference:

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Question 11

Parameter Passing by Read Only:

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Question 12

Parameter Passing by Sharing:

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Question 13

Three modes in Ada for passing parameters:

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Question 14

References in C++:

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Question 15

Passing Parameters by Name:

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Question 16

Some languages support named parameters that can be given an any order:

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Question 17

Some languages support a variabled number of parameters:

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Question 18

Many languages restrict what can be returned from a function. What are some examples?

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Question 19

Generic Subroutines and Modules

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Question 20

Implicit Parametric Polymorphism

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Question 21

Explicit Polymorphic Generics

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Question 22

What kind of types can be passed as a generic parameter?

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Question 23

Implementation Options for Generic Parameters:

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Question 24

(T/F)

In some languages, all instances share the same code at runtime.

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True

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Constraints on Generic Parameters:

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Question 26

Generic Parameters Constraints in Ada:

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Question 27

Generic Parameter Constraints in Java:

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Question 28

C++ templates are very powerful. Elaborate:

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Question 29

What is an **exception**?

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Question 30

What are some solutions for exceptions?

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Question 31

In ML, what could be a good way to recover from an exception?

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Question 32

What are some exception handling mechanisms?

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Question 33

What can an exception handler do?

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Question 34

Exception in Java:

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Question 35

Exception Handling Techniques:

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Question 36

Exception Handling Using a Table:

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Question 37

What is the philosophy of exceptions?

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Question 38

Explain Coroutines:

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