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A Rewriting Logic Approach to Operational Semantics (Extended Abstract)

Author(s) -

Traian Florin Şerbănuţă,

Grigore Roşu,

José Meseguer

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

electronic notes in theoretical computer science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.242

H-Index - 60

ISSN - 1571-0661

DOI - 10.1016/j.entcs.2007.08.020

Subject(s) - operational semantics , computer science , rewriting , programming language , semantics (computer science) , well founded semantics , formal semantics (linguistics) , modular design , computational semantics , denotational semantics , logic programming , flexibility (engineering) , theoretical computer science , mathematics , statistics

This paper shows how rewriting logic semantics (RLS) can be used as a computational logic framework for operational semantic definitions of programming languages. Several operational semantics styles are addressed: big-step and small-step structural operational semantics (SOS), modular SOS, reduction semantics with evaluation contexts, and continuation-based semantics. Each of these language definitional styles can be faithfully captured as an RLS theory, in the sense that there is a one-to-one correspondence between computational steps in the original language definition and computational steps in the corresponding RLS theory. A major goal of this paper is to show that RLS does not force or pre-impose any given language definitional style, and that its flexibility and ease of use makes RLS an appealing framework for exploring new definitional styles

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