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Intuitionistic Refinement Calculus

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Refinement calculi are program logics which formalize the “top-down” methodology of software development promoted by Dijkstra and Wirth in the early days of structured programming. I present here the shallow embedding of a refinement calculus into constructive type theory. This embedding involves monad transformers and the computational reflexion of weakest-preconditions, using a continuation passing style. It should allow to reason about many programs combining non-functional features (state, exceptions, etc) with purely functional ones (higher-order functions, structural recursion, etc).

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Boulmé, S. (2007). Intuitionistic Refinement Calculus. In: Della Rocca, S.R. (eds) Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications. TLCA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4583. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73228-0_6

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