Continuations and Martin-Löf's type theory : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand
dc.contributor.author | Leslie, Neil | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-06-24T03:52:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-06-24T03:52:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2000 | |
dc.description.abstract | M-LTT is a theory designed to formalize constructive mathematics. By appealing to the Curry-Howard 'propositions as types' analogy, and to the Brouwer-Heyting-Kolmogorov interpretation of intuitionistic logic we can treat M-LTT as a framework for the specification and derivation of correct functional programs. However, programming in M-LTT has two weaknesses: we are limited in the functions that we can naturally express; the functions that we do write naturally are often inefficient. Programming with continuations allows us partially to address these problems. The continuation-passing programming style is known to offer a number of advantages to the functional programmer. We can also observe a relationship between continuation passing and type lifting in categorial grammar. We present computation rules which allow us to use continuations with inductively-defined types, and with types not presented inductively. We justify the new elimination rules using the usual proof-theoretic semantics. We show that the new rules preserve the consistency of the theory. We show how to use well-orderings to encode continuation-passing operators for inductively defined types. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10179/2456 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Massey University | en_US |
dc.rights | The Author | en_US |
dc.subject | Functional programming | en_US |
dc.subject | Type theory | en_US |
dc.subject | Continuations | en_US |
dc.subject | Computer science | en_US |
dc.title | Continuations and Martin-Löf's type theory : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
massey.contributor.author | Leslie, Neil | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Computer Science | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Massey University | |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | en |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) |
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