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On the correctness of the Krivine machine

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Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation

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We provide a short proof of the correctness of the Krivine machine by showing how it simulates weak head reduction.

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Wand, M. On the correctness of the Krivine machine. Higher-Order Symb Comput 20, 231–235 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10990-007-9019-8

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