Substructural Operational Semantics as Ordered Logic Programming

@article{Pfenning2009SubstructuralOS,
  title={Substructural Operational Semantics as Ordered Logic Programming},
  author={Frank Pfenning and Robert J. Simmons},
  journal={2009 24th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic In Computer Science},
  year={2009},
  pages={101-110}
}
  • F. PfenningR. Simmons
  • Published 11 August 2009
  • Computer Science
  • 2009 24th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic In Computer Science
We describe a substructural logic with ordered, linear, and persistent propositions and then endow a fragment with a committed choice forward-chaining operational interpretation. Exploiting higher-order terms in this metalanguage, we specify the operational semantics of a number of object language features, such as call-by-value, call-by-name, call-by-need, mutable store, parallelism, communication, exceptions and continuations. The specifications exhibit a high degree of uniformity and… 
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