denotational semantics in a sentence
Examples
- From the viewpoint of denotational semantics, algebraic posets are particularly well-behaved, since they allow for the approximation of all elements even when restricting to finite ones.
- A sequent calculus for the logic was given, but it lacked a cut-elimination theorem; instead the sense of the calculus was established through a denotational semantics.
- An operational semantics for QML is given in terms of quantum circuits, while a denotational semantics is presented in terms of superoperators, and these are shown to agree.
- A central question of denotational semantics is to characterize when it is possible to create denotations ( meanings ) according to the equation for "'Denote "'
- The primary motivation for the study of domains, which was initiated by Dana Scott in the late 1960s, was the search for a denotational semantics of the lambda calculus.
- Denotational semantics concerns itself with finding more appropriate models ( called continuous functions " ( corresponding to continuity in the Scott topology, not continuity in the real analytical sense ).
- Scott and Strachey [ 1971 ] proposed that the semantics of programming languages be reduced to the semantics of the lambda calculus and thus inherit the denotational semantics of the lambda calculus.
- As a result of CarlHewitt's edits, the article denotational semantics currently gives a highly skewed treatment of the field, doing little justice any researchers not associated with Carl Hewitt.
- He was one of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics.
- To formulate such a denotational semantics, one might first try to construct a " model " for the lambda calculus, in which a genuine ( total ) function is associated with each lambda term.