[POPLmark] Re: adequacy
Geoffrey A. Washburn
geoffw at cis.upenn.edu
Mon May 9 17:10:15 EDT 2005
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Robert Harper wrote:
> It is part of the statement of adequacy for an encoding to specify
> precisely what is meant by substitution / compositionality. In the
> example below you are being mislead by the terminology. The "leftist
> substitution" mentioned below would not be the substitution represented
> as such by the encoding. Just because something is called substitution
> doesn't make it so! BTW, there is no difficulty at all in formalizing
> lambda-circle in LF.
If there is no difficulty I would appreciate it if I could see how
you would do so. Thanks!
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