Encoding strategies in the lambda calculus with interaction nets

  • Authors:
  • Ian Mackie

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, King's College London, Strand, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • IFL'05 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Interaction nets are a graphical paradigm of computation based on graph rewriting. They have proven to be both useful and enlightening in the encoding of linear logic and the λ-calculus. This paper offers new techniques for the theory of interaction nets, with applications to the encoding of specific strategies in the λ-calculus. In particular we show how to recover the usual call-by-value and call-by-name reduction strategies from general encodings.