Defunctionalization at work

  • Authors:
  • Olivier Danvy;Lasse R. Nielsen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Aarhus;University of Aarhus

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Principles and practice of declarative programming
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Reynolds's defunctionalization technique is a whole-program transformation from higher-order to first-order functional programs. We study practical applications of this transformation and uncover new connections between seemingly unrelated higher-order and first-order specifications and between their correctness proofs. Defunctionalization therefore appearsboth as a springboard for rev ealing new connections and as a bridge for transferring existing results between the first-order world and the higher-order world.