2016/05/10 by Poulsen, Casper Bach, Mosses, Peter D. · 1 citation
#FOS: Computer and information sciences #Programming Languages (cs.PL)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1605.02935
Structural operational semantic specifications come in different styles: small-step and big-step. A problem with the big-step style is that specifying divergence and abrupt termination gives rise to annoying duplication. We present a novel approach to representing divergence and abrupt termination in big-step semantics using status flags. This avoids the duplication problem, and uses fewer rules and premises for representing divergence than previous approaches in the literature.