MetaCart Sign in to MyCiteSeerX

Include Citations | Advanced Search | Help

Disambiguated Search | Include Citations | Advanced Search | Help

A Structural Approach to Operational Semantics (1981) [1044 citations — 3 self]

by G. D. Plotkin
Add To MetaCart

Abstract:

Syntax of a very simple programming language called L. What is abstract about it will be discussed a little here and later at greater length. For us syntax is a collection of syntactic sets of phrases; each set corresponds to a different type of phrase. Some of these sets are very simple and can be taken as given: Truthvalues This is the set T = ftt; ffg and is ranged over by (the metavariable) t (and we also happily employ for this (and any other) metavariable sub- and super-scripts to generate other metavariables: t ; t 0 ; t 1k ).

Citations

No citations identified.