Composition: A Way to Make Proofs Harder

  • Authors:
  • Leslie Lamport

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • COMPOS'97 Revised Lectures from the International Symposium on Compositionality: The Significant Difference
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Compositional reasoning about a system means writing its specification as the parallel composition of components and reasoning separately about each component. When distracting language issues are removed and the underlying mathematics is revealed, compositional reasoning is seen to be of little use.