Theoretical Foundations for the Declarative Debugging of Lazy Functional Logic Programs

  • Authors:
  • Rafael Caballero;Francisco Javier López-Fraguas;Mario Rodríguez-Artalejo

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FLOPS '01 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to provide theoretical foundations for the declarative debugging of wrong answers in lazy functional logic programming. We rely on a logical framework which formalizes both the intended meaning and the execution model of programs in a simple language which combines the expressivity of pure Prolog and a significant subset of Haskell. As novelties w.r.t. to previous related approaches, we deal with functional values both as arguments and as results of higher order functions, we obtain a completely formal specification of the debugging method, and we extend known soundness and completeness results for the debugging of wrong answers in logic programming to a substantially more difficult context. A prototype implementation of a working debugger is planned as future work.