FreshML: Programming with binders made simple

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 263-274

  Shinwell, Mark R ^a   Pitts, Andrew M ^a   Gabbay, Murdoch J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alpha conversion; Metaprogramming; Variable binding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA STRUCTURES; FORMAL LOGIC; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

ALPHA CONVERSION; METAPROGRAMMING; OBJECT LEVEL SYNTAX; STANDARD TYPE SYSTEMS; VARIABLE BINDING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 1442337708     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/944746.944729     Document Type: Conference Paper

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