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Information Processing Letters, 31(6), pp.327-330, June 1989
Lloyd Allison
- Abstract
Direct semantics and continuation semantics are the two main styles of
denotational semantics. Direct semantics is the simpler style but
cannot define the semantics of jumps and other sequencers.
This paper shows that, with the addition of exceptions, direct
semantics can define sequencers. In contrast to the use of
continuation semantics, nothing need be added to the semantics of
commands unconnected with sequencers. Since exceptions can be defined
in terms of the λ-calculus nothing need be added to the
foundations of semantics.
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- [doi:10.1016/0020-0190(89)90097-5 ]['08]
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