Full Abstraction for Reduced ML

  • Authors:
  • Andrzej S. Murawski;Nikos Tzevelekos

  • Affiliations:
  • Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, Oxford, UK OX1 3QD;Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, Oxford, UK OX1 3QD

  • Venue:
  • FOSSACS '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures: Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2009
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present the first effectively presentable fully abstract model for Stark's Reduced ML, the paradigmatic higher-order programming language combining call-by-value evaluation and integer-valued references. The model is constructed using techniques of nominal game semantics. Its distinctive feature is the presence of carefully restricted information about the store in plays, combined with conditions concerning the participants' ability to distinguish reference names. This leads to an explicit characterization of program equivalence.