single assignment

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single assignment - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  single assignment
  
     <programming> A property of variables in a functional language
     .  If a variable is only assigned a value once then
     an instance of that variable is thereafter semantically
     equivalent to the value.  SISAL is an example of a language
     with this property.
  
     See also zero assignment.
  
     (2003-12-22)