The safe lambda calculus

We consider a syntactic restriction for higher-order grammars called safety that constrains occurrences of variables in the production rules according to their type-theoretic order. We transpose and generalize this restriction to the setting of the simply-typed lambda calculus, giving rise to what w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blum, William
Other Authors: Ong, C.-H. Luke
Published: University of Oxford 2009
Subjects:
510
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504329