Higher-Order Rewrite Systems and Their Confluence

نویسندگان

  • Richard Mayr
  • Tobias Nipkow
چکیده

We introduce Higher-Order Rewrite Systems (HRS) which extend term rewriting to-terms. HRS can describe computations on arbitrary terms with bound variables. We show that rewriting is closely related to undirected equational reasoning , and extend three connuence results from term rewriting to HRS: the critical pair lemma by Knuth and Bendix, connuence of rewriting modulo equations a la Huet, and connuence of orthogonal HRS.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Theor. Comput. Sci.

دوره 192  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1998