Ensuring Streams Flow

@inproceedings{Telford1997EnsuringSF,
  title={Ensuring Streams Flow},
  author={Alastair J. Telford and David Turner},
  booktitle={AMAST},
  year={1997}
}
It is our aim to develop an elementary strong functional programming (ESFP) system. To be useful, ESFP should include structures such as streams which can be computationally unwound infinitely often. We describe a syntactic analysis to ensure that infinitely proceeding structures, which we shall term codata, are productive. This analysis is an extension of the check for guardedness that has been used with definitions over coinductive types in Martin-Lof's type theory and in the calculus of… 
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