Year: 1984
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Knowledge of logical inference rules allows a specialized proof editor to provide a user with feedback about errors in a proof under development. Providing such feedback involves checking a collection of constraints on the strings of the proof language. Because attribute grammars allow such constraints to be expressed in a modular, declarative fashion, they are a suitable underlying formalism for a proof-checking editor. This paper discusses how an attribute grammar can be used in an editor for partial-correctness program proofs in Hoare-style logic, where verification conditions are proved using the sequent calculus.
Authors: Thomas Reps, Bowen Alpern
Institution: Cornell University
Language: English
Subfield: Software
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2090463680