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Specifying the correctness of binding-time analysis

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Mitchell Wand
Mitchell Wand
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College of Computer Science, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, 161CN, Boston, MA 02115, USA (e-mail: wand@ccs.neu.edu)
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Mogensen has exhibited a very compact partial evaluator for the pure lambda calculus, using binding-time analysis followed by specialization. We give a correctness criterion for this partial evaluator and prove its correctness relative to this specification. We show that the conventional properties of partial evaluators, such as the Futamura projections, are consequences of this specification. By considering both a flow analysis and the transformation it justifies together, this proof suggests a framework for incorporating flow analyses into verified compilers.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , July 1993 , pp. 365 - 387
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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