Accession Number:

ADA193643

Title:

Unification and Set-Valued Functions for Functional and Logic Programming,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

NORTH CAROLINA UNIV AT CHAPEL HILL DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Personal Author(s):

• Silbermann, Frank S.
• Jayaraman, Bharat

Report Date:

1987-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

24.0

Abstract:

The authors propose a new approach to the integration of functional and logic languages, based on a theory of unification and set valued functions. A set-valued function maps a tuple of input sets into an output set. This document a language called Setlog illustrates this approach, and gives its model-theoretic, fixed-point, and operational semantics. The model-theoretic semantics and fixed-point semantics resemble that of Horn logic. The operational semantics uses outermost reduction for set-valued functions and unification for terms. The correctness of the operational semantics is established through soundness and completeness proofs. Keywords Syntax Set theory.

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
• INPUT
• OUTPUT
• SEMANTICS
• SET THEORY
• SYNTAX
• COMPUTER LOGIC

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE