Records and Variants

This lecture covers the concepts of options, variants, recursion, records, and state. It explains the evaluation and typing rules for records and sums, as well as the introduction of new syntactic forms and evaluation rules. The lecture also delves into the challenges of aliasing and the benefits it brings, along with examples illustrating the order of operations and the use of reference cells. Additionally, it discusses the importance of aliasing in programming languages and the implications it has on reasoning about programs and compiler optimizations.