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Defining and Extending Language Modules: An Action Semantics Approach

액션의미방식에 의한 언어모듈의 정의와 확장

  • 도경구 (한양대학교 전자컴퓨터공학부)
  • Published : 2000.08.15
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Abstract

A language module is the collection of language constructs whose concepts and operations are closely related. This paper demonstrates how to use action semantics to define and extend language modules. We first define a language module for an expression language core, and then language modules for bindings, block structures, parameters, and higher-order expressions. Finally, we show that the language modules can be combined, if there is no violation of uniformity and orthogonality, to become a more complex language module.

언어의 의미정의모듈은 서로 밀접하게 관련 있는 개념과 연산의 의미구조를 모아 놓은 집합이다. 이 논문은 액션 의미표기법으로 의미정의모듈을 구성하고 확장하는 방법을 제시한다. 표현중심언어 핵심 모듈을 먼저 정의하고, 바인딩, 블록구조, 파라미터, 고차 표현식(함수)에 대한 확장 모듈을 정의한다. 그리고 의미의 획일성과 직교성이 보장되도록 의미정의 모듈들을 합성하면 더 복잡한 언어를 구축할 수 있음을 보인다.

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