A Weak Calculus with Explicit Operators for Pattern Matching and Substitution

  • Authors:
  • Julien Forest

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • RTA '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper we propose aWeak Lambda Calculus called 驴Pw having explicit operators for Pattern Matching and Substitution. This formalism is able to specify functions defined by cases via pattern matching constructors as done by most modern functional programming languages such as OCAML.We show the main property enjoyed by 驴Pw, namely subject reduction, confluence and strong normalization.