A Rewriting Logic Approach to Operational Semantics

Serbanuta, Traian Florin; Rosu, Grigore; Meseguer, José

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A Rewriting Logic Approach to Operational Semantics

Author(s)

• Serbanuta, Traian Florin
• Rosu, Grigore
• Meseguer, José

Issue Date

2007-02

Keyword(s)

computer science

Abstract

This paper shows how rewriting logic semantics (RLS) can be used as a computational logic framework for operational semantic definitions of programming languages. Several operational semantics styles are addressed: big-step and small-step structural operational semantics (SOS), modular SOS, reduction semantics with evaluation contexts, continuation-based semantics, and the chemical abstract machine. Each of these language definitional styles can be {\em faithfully captured} as an RLS theory, in the sense that there is a one-to-one correspondence between computational steps in the original language definition and computational steps in the corresponding RLS theory. A major goal of this paper is to show that RLS does not force or pre-impose any given language definitional style, and that its flexibility and ease of use makes RLS an appealing framework for exploring new definitional styles.

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