{ rjmh, pareto, sabry We have designed and implemented a type-based analysis for proving some baaic properties of reactive systems. The analysis manipulates rich type expressions that contain in-formation about the sizes of recursively defined data struc-tures. Sized types are useful for detecting deadlocks, non-termination, and other errors in embedded programs. To establish the soundness of the analysis we have developed an appropriate semantic model of sized types. 1 Embedded Functional Programs In a reactive system, the control software must continu-ously react to inputs from the environment. We distin-guish a class of systems where the embedded programs can be naturally expressed as functional programs manipulat-ing streams. This class of programs appears to be large enough for many purposes [2] and is the core of more ex-pressive formalisms that accommodate asynchronous events, non-determinism, etc. The fundamental criterion for the correctness of pro-grams embedded in reactive systems is Jwene.ss. Indeed, before considering the properties of the output, we must en-sure that there is some output in the first place: the program must continuous] y react to the input streams by producing elements on the output streams. This latter property may fail in various ways: e the computation of a stream element may depend on itself creating a “black hole, ” or e the computation of one of the output streams may demand elements from some input stream at different rates, which requires unbounded buffering, or o the computation of a stream element may exhaust the physical resources of the machine or even diverge.

. We present a method for providing semantic interpretations for languages with a type system featuring inheritance polymorphism. Our approach is illustrated on an extension of the language Fun of Cardelli and Wegner, which we interpret via a translation into an extended polymorphic lambda calculus. Our goal is to interpret inheritances in Fun via coercion functions which are definable in the target of the translation. Existing techniques in the theory of semantic domains can be then used to interpret the extended polymorphic lambda calculus, thus providing many models for the original language. This technique makes it possible to model a rich type discipline which includes parametric polymorphism and recursive types as well as inheritance. A central difficulty in providing interpretations for explicit type disciplines featuring inheritance in the sense discussed in this paper arises from the fact that programs can type-check in more than one way. Since interpretations follow the type...

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We present a generalization of the ideal model for recursive polymorphic types. Types are defined as sets of terms instead of sets of elements of a semantic domain. Our proof of the existence of types (computed by fixpoint of a typing operator) does not rely on metric properties, but on the fact that the identity is the limit of a sequence of projection terms. This establishes a connection with the work of Pitts on relational properties of domains. This also suggests that ideals are better understood as closed sets of terms defined by orthogonality with respect to a set of contexts.

Both pre-orders and metric spaces have been used at various times as a foundation for the solution of recursive domain equations in the area of denotational semantics. In both cases the central theorem states that a `converging' sequence of `complete' domains/spaces with `continuous' retraction pairs between them has a limit in the category of complete domains/spaces with retraction pairs as morphisms. The pre-order version was discovered first by Scott in 1969, and is referred to as Scott's inverse limit theorem. The metric version was mainly developed by de Bakker and Zucker and refined and generalized by America and Rutten. The theorem in both its versions provides the main tool for solving recursive domain equations. The proofs of the two versions of the theorem look astonishingly similar, but until now the preconditions for the pre-order and the metric versions have seemed to be fundamentally different. In this thesis we establish a more general theory of domains based on the noti...

We propose a type system based on regular tree grammars, where algebraic datatypes are interpreted in a structural way. Thus, the same constructors can be reused for different types and a flexible subtyping relation can be defined between types, corresponding to the inclusion of their semantics. For instance, one can define a type for lists and a subtype of this type corresponding to lists of even length. Patterns are simply types annotated with binders. This provides a generalization of algebraic patterns with the ability of matching arbitrarily deep in a value. Our main contribution, compared to languages such as XDuce and CDuce, is that we are able to deal with both polymorphism and function types.