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Interaction nets are a graphical paradigm of computation based on graph rewriting. They have proven to be both useful and enlightening in the encoding of linear logic and the λ-calculus. This paper offers new techniques for the theory of interaction nets, with applications to the encoding of specific strategies in the λ-calculus. In particular we show how to recover the usual call-by-value and call-by-name reduction strategies from general encodings.
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Mackie, I. (2006). Encoding Strategies in the Lambda Calculus with Interaction Nets. In: Butterfield, A., Grelck, C., Huch, F. (eds) Implementation and Application of Functional Languages. IFL 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4015. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11964681_2
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