Algebra of Logic Programming

نویسندگان

  • Silvija Seres
  • J. Michael Spivey
  • C. A. R. Hoare
چکیده

A declarative programming language has two kinds of semantics The more abstract helps in reasoning about speci cations and correctness while an operational semantics determines the manner of program exe cution A correct program should reconcile its abstract meaning with its concrete interpretation To help in this we present a kind of algebraic semantics for logic pro gramming It lists only those laws that are equally valid for predicate calculus and for the standard depth rst strategy of Prolog An alterna tive strategy is breadth rst search which shares many of the same laws Both strategies are shown to be special cases of the most general strat egy that for tree searching The three strategies are de ned in the lazy functional language Haskell so that each law can be proved by standard algebraic reasoning The laws are an enrichment of the familiar categorical concept of a monad and the links between such monads are explored

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تاریخ انتشار 1999