Paper: A fully abstract semantics for a functional language with logic variables (at LICS 1989)

Authors: Radha Jagadeesan Prakash Panangaden Keshav Pingali

Abstract

There is much interest in the declarative languages community in integrating logic variables into functional languages. The authors give a full semantic account of such a language. They present a Plotkin-style operational semantics for the language and an abstract semantics that expresses meanings as closure operators on a Scott domain. They also show that the denotational semantics is fully abstract with respect to the operational semantics

BibTeX

  @InProceedings{JagadeesanPanangade-Afullyabstractseman,
    author = 	 {Radha Jagadeesan and Prakash Panangaden and Keshav Pingali},
    title = 	 {A fully abstract semantics for a functional language with logic variables },
    booktitle =  {Proceedings of the Fourth Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 1989)},
    year =	 {1989},
    month =	 {June}, 
    pages =      {294--303},
    location =   {Pacific Grove, CA, USA}, 
    publisher =	 {IEEE Computer Society Press}
  }