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Normalization and Partial Evaluation

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We give an introduction to normalization by evaluation and type-directed partial evaluation. We first present normalization by evaluation for a combinatory version of Gödel System T. Then we show normalization by evaluation for typed lambda calculus with β and η conversion. Finally, we introduce the notion of binding time, and explain the method of type-directed partial evaluation for a small PCF-style functional programming language. We give algorithms for both call-by-name and call-by-value versions of this language.

Part of this work was carried out at BRICS (Basic Research in Computer Science, http://www.brics.dk), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation.

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  1. Department of Computing Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

    Peter Dybjer

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    Andrzej Filinski

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  2. Department of Computing Science, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96, Göteborg, Sweden

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  3. Departamento de Matemática, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

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Dybjer, P., Filinski, A. (2002). Normalization and Partial Evaluation. In: Barthe, G., Dybjer, P., Pinto, L., Saraiva, J. (eds) Applied Semantics. APPSEM 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2395. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45699-6_4

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