From: Martin Berger <martinb@dcs.qmul.ac.uk>
To: Jean-Christophe Filliatre <Jean-Christophe.Filliatre@lri.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Formal Methods
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 10:04:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <415D1D8C.2020802@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16733.2280.350656.716714@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
> The real difficulties in proving functional code appear when
> side-effects are mixed with powerful features such as polymorphism or
> higher-order. Then it becomes very hard to reason about programs.
> Actually, we don't even have a specification language to write
> programs properties to be proved. There is a nice challenge for
> research here.
this has changed recently. please consider
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~yoshida/paper/PA.ps
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~yoshida/paper/polyrec.ps
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~yoshida/paper/icfp04.ps
more along those lines is in the pipeline.
martin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-01 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-30 15:51 David McClain
2004-09-30 17:35 ` Jacques Carette
2004-09-30 18:42 ` Jon Harrop
2004-10-01 8:24 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2004-10-01 9:01 ` Achim Blumensath
2004-09-30 17:54 ` [Off-topic] " David MENTRE
2004-10-01 7:36 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2004-10-01 7:51 ` Tom
2004-10-01 9:04 ` Martin Berger [this message]
2004-10-01 8:30 ` Hendrik Tews
2004-10-01 9:18 ` Martin Berger
2004-09-30 17:19 Harrison, John R
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