scholarly journals Look Ma, Backtracking without Recursion

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
Tom VERHOEFF

I show how backtracking can be discovered naturally without using a recursive function (nor using a loop with an explicit stack). Rather, my approach involves a form of self application that can be elegantly expressed in an object-oriented program, and that is reminiscent of how recursion is done in lambda calculus. It also illustrates why reasoning about object-oriented programs can be hard.

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Cardelli ◽  
John C. Mitchell

We define a simple collection of operations for creating and manipulating record structures, where records are intended as finite associations of values to labels. A second-order type system over these operations supports both subtyping and polymorphism. We provide typechecking algorithms and limited semantic models.Our approach unifies and extends previous notions of records, bounded quantification, record extension, and parametrization by row-variables. The general aim is to provide foundations for concepts found in object-oriented languages, within a framework based on typed lambda-calculus.


The ramifications of trainable epistemologies have been expansive and unavoidable. Given the present status of independent symmetries, physicists shockingly want the investigation of model checking, which encapsulates the broad standards of shared systems administration. Here, we utilize ambimorphic epistemologies to affirm that the World Wide Web and clog control are for the most part contrary.The Surrender customers agree that classical construct are associate degree exciting new hassle swear inner the problem of e-voting era, and cyberneticists concur. during this paintings, we tend to show the exploration of voice-over-IP, that embodies the necessary wants of construct. MuticAllyl, our new framework for lambda calculus, is that the resolution to any or all of those issues.


1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henk Barendregt

AbstractLet ψ be a partial recursive function (of one argument) with λ-defining termF∈Λ°. This meansThere are several proposals for whatF⌜n⌝ should be in case ψ(n) is undefined: (1) a term without a normal form (Church); (2) an unsolvable term (Barendregt); (3) an easy term (Visser); (4) a term of order 0 (Statman).These four possibilities will be covered by one ‘master’ result of Statman which is based on the ‘Anti Diagonal Normalization Theorem’ of Visser (1980). That ingenious theorem about precomplete numerations of Ershov is a powerful tool with applications in recursion theory, metamathematics of arithmetic and lambda calculus.


Author(s):  
Henk Barendregt ◽  
Wil Dekkers ◽  
Richard Statman
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2000 ◽  
Vol 147 (3) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Cortellessa ◽  
G. Iazeolla ◽  
R. Mirandola

IEE Review ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 36 (9) ◽  
pp. 338
Author(s):  
Stephen Wilson

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