A type-theoretic foundation for programming with higher-order abstract syntax and first-class substitutions

Conference Record of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 371-382

  Pientka, Brigitte ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

logical frameworks; type system

Indexed keywords

BI-DIRECTIONAL; COMPUTATION LANGUAGES; ENCODINGS; HIGHER-ORDER ABSTRACT SYNTAX; LOGICAL FRAMEWORKS; META LANGUAGE; NOMINAL SYSTEM; OPEN TERMS; RECURSIONS; TYPE SYSTEMS;

BINDERS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PATTERN MATCHING;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84865656016     PISSN: 07308566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1328438.1328483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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