Types, Subtypes, and ASL+

@inproceedings{Aspinall1994TypesSA,
  title={Types, Subtypes, and ASL+},
  author={David Aspinall},
  booktitle={COMPASS/ADT},
  year={1994}
}
  • D. Aspinall
  • Published in COMPASS/ADT 30 May 1994
  • Computer Science
ASL+ is a formalism for specification and programming in-the-large, based on an arbitrary institution. It has rules for proving the satisfaction and refinement of specifications, which can be seen as a type theory with subtyping, including contravariant refinement for II-abstracted specifications and a notion of stratified equality for higher-order objects. We describe the syntax of the language and a partial equivalence relation semantics. This style of semantics is familiar from subtyping… 
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