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<div><h1>Pseudocode -- the class of pseudocodes</h1>
<div class="single"><h2>Description</h2>
<div>The Macaulay2 interpreter compiles its language into pseudocode, which is evaluated later, step by step. At each step, the evaluator is considering a pseudocode item. These pseudocode items are normally not available to the user, but the interanl function <a href="_disassemble.html" title="disassemble pseudocode or a function">disassemble</a> can display their contents, the function <a href="_pseudocode.html" title="produce the pseudocode for a function">pseudocode</a> can convert a function closure to pseudocode, the function <a href="_value.html" title="evaluate">value</a> can evaluate it (bindings of values to local symbols are enclosed with the pseudocode), the operator <a href="___Thing_sp_eq_eq_eq_sp__Thing.html" title="strict equality">===</a> can be used for equality testing, and when the debugger is activated after an error, the variable <a href="_current.html" title="the pseudocode that produced an error">current</a> contains the pseudcode step whose execution produced the error.</div>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>Methods that use an object of class Pseudocode :</h2>
<ul><li><span>frames(Pseudocode), see <span><a href="_frames.html" title="get the frames associated to a closure">frames</a> -- get the frames associated to a closure</span></span></li>
<li><span>localDictionaries(Pseudocode), see <span><a href="_local__Dictionaries.html" title="get local dictionaries">localDictionaries</a> -- get local dictionaries</span></span></li>
<li><span>locate(Pseudocode), see <span><a href="_locate.html" title="locate source code">locate</a> -- locate source code</span></span></li>
<li><span><a href="_value_lp__Pseudocode_rp.html" title="execute pseudocode">value(Pseudocode)</a> -- execute pseudocode</span></li>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>For the programmer</h2>
<p>The object <a href="___Pseudocode.html" title="the class of pseudocodes">Pseudocode</a> is <span>a <a href="___Type.html">type</a></span>, with ancestor class <a href="___Thing.html" title="the class of all things">Thing</a>.</p>
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