Fusion on Languages

  • Authors:
  • Roland Carl Backhouse

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ESOP '01 Proceedings of the 10th European Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Many functions on context-free languages can be expressed in the form of the least fixed point of a function whose definition mimics the grammar of the given language. This paper presents the basic theory that explains when a function on a context-free language can be defined in this way. The contributions are: a novel definition of a regular algebra capturing division properties, several theorems showing how complex regular algebras are built from simpler ones, and the application of fixed point theory and Galois connections to practical programming problems.