Qualification principle

In programming language theory, the qualification principle states that any semantically meaningful syntactic class may admit local definitions.

In other words, it's possible to include a block in any syntactic class, provided that the phrases of that class specify some kind of computation.

(Watt 1990) A common examples for of this principle includes:

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