Operational domain theory and topology of sequential programming languages

  • Authors:
  • Martı´n Escardó;Weng Kin Ho

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK;School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

  • Venue:
  • Information and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A number of authors have exported domain-theoretic techniques from denotational semantics to the operational study of contextual equivalence and order. We further develop this, and, moreover, we additionally export topological techniques. In particular, we work with an operational notion of compact set and show that total programs with values on certain types are uniformly continuous on compact sets of total elements. We apply this and other conclusions to prove the correctness of non-trivial programs that manipulate infinite data. What is interesting is that the development applies to sequential programming languages, in addition to languages with parallel features.