A new translation for semi-classical theories: backtracking without CPS

  • Authors:
  • Satoshi Kobayashi

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan

  • Venue:
  • FLOPS'08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Functional and logic programming
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Most research of algorithm extraction from classical proofs is based on double negation translation or its variants. From the viewpoint of Curry-Howard isomorphism, double negation translation corresponds to CPS translation. Unfortunately, CPS translation makes resulting programs very complex. In this paper, we study a new translation for a semi-classical logic which is not based on double negation translation. Though it does not validate full classical logic, it translates Limit Computable Mathematics (LCM) into constructive mathematics. Our translation is inspired by game semantics with backtracking rules. Using the translation, we can extract an algorithm from a proof of a proposition A in LCM. The extracted algorithm gives a recursive winning strategy for the first mover of the game defined from A, at least when A is implication-free.