Explicit Substitutions and Programming Languages

  • Authors:
  • Jean-Jacques Lévy;Luc Maranget

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The λ-calculus has been much used to study the theory of substitution in logical systems and programming languages. However, with explicit substitutions, it is possible to get finer properties with respect to gradual implementations of substitutions as effectively done in runtimes of programming languages. But the theory of explicit substitutions has some defects such as non-confluence or the nontermination of the typed case. In this paper, we stress on the sub-theory of weak substitutions, which is sufficient to analyze most of the properties of programming languages, and which preserves many of the nice theorems of the λ-calculus.