Algol-like Languages (Progress in Theoretical Computer Science Volume 2) - Hardcover

O'Hearn, Peter; Tennent, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0817639373 ISBN 13: 9780817639372

Publisher: Birkhäuser, 1996

Synopsis

To construct a compiler for a modern higher-level programming languagel one needs to structure the translation to a machine-like intermediate language in a way that reflects the semantics of the language. little is said about such struc­ turing in compiler texts that are intended to cover a wide variety of program­ ming languages. More is said in the Iiterature on semantics-directed compiler construction [1] but here too the viewpoint is very general (though limited to 1 languages with a finite number of syntactic types). On the other handl there is a considerable body of work using the continuation-passing transformation to structure compilers for the specific case of call-by-value languages such as SCHEME and ML [21 3]. ln this paperl we will describe a method of structuring the translation of ALGOL-like languages that is based on the functor-category semantics devel­ oped by Reynolds [4] and Oles [51 6]. An alternative approach using category theory to structure compilers is the early work of F. L. Morris [7]1 which anticipates our treatment of boolean expressionsl but does not deal with procedures. 2 Types and Syntax An ALGOL-like language is a typed lambda calculus with an unusual repertoire of primitive types. Throughout most of this paper we assume that the primi­ tive types are comm(and) int(eger)exp(ression) int(eger)acc(eptor) int(eger)var(iable) I and that the set 8 of types is the least set containing these primitive types and closed under the binary operation -.

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Volume 2 consists of more specialized and more technically demanding material; this volume will be suitable for advanced seminars and researchers with adequate background in logic, semantics, type theory and category theory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0817639373
• ISBN 13: 9780817639372
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356