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A Call-by-Need Lambda Calculus Export

by: Zena M. Ariola, Matthias Felleisen, John Maraist, Martin Odersky, Philip Wadler
In Proceedings of 22nd Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) (1995), pp. 233-246.

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The mismatch between the operational semantics of the lambda calculus and the actual behavior of implementations is a major obstacle for compiler writers. They cannot explain the behavior of their evaluator in terms of source level syntax, and they cannot easily compare distinct implementations of different lazy strategies. In this paper we derive an equational characterization of call-by-need and prove it correct with respect to the original lambda calculus. The theory is a strictly smaller...


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