Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite...

  • Authors:
  • Nachum Dershowitz;S. Kaplan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, 1304 West Springfield Avenue, Urbana, Illinois;Department of Computer Science, Hebrew University, Givat Ram, 91904 Jerusalem (Israel) and Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan (Israel) and L.R.I., Bat. 490, Universit& ...

  • Venue:
  • POPL '89 Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

The theory of term rewriting systems has important applications in abstract data type specifications and functional programming languages. We begin here a study of properties of systems that are not necessarily terminating, but allow for infinite derivations that have a limit. In particular, we give conditions for the existence of a limit and for its uniqueness.