On the confluence of lambda-calculus with conditional rewriting

  • Authors:
  • Frédéric Blanqui;Claude Kirchner;Colin Riba

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA, FIT 3-604, Tsinghua University, Haidian District, Beijing 100084, China;INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, Bât. A29, 351 cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence, France;LIP-ENS Lyon, UMR 5668 CNRS ENS-Lyon UCBL INRIA, 46 allée dItalie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 7, France

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The confluence of untyped @l-calculus with unconditional rewriting is now well un- derstood. In this paper, we investigate the confluence of @l-calculus with conditional rewriting and provide general results in two directions. First, when conditional rules are algebraic. This extends results of Muller and Dougherty for unconditional rewriting. Two cases are considered, whether @b-reduction is allowed or not in the evaluation of conditions. Moreover, Dougherty's result is improved from the assumption of strongly normalizing @b-reduction to weakly normalizing @b-reduction. We also provide examples showing that outside these conditions, modularity of confluence is difficult to achieve. Second, we go beyond the algebraic framework and get new confluence results using a restricted notion of orthogonality that takes advantage of the conditional part of rewrite rules.