JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 3(12): 1283-1336, doi: 10.3217/jucs-003-12-1283
MONSTR V - Transitive Coercing Semantics and the Church-Rosser Property
expand article infoRichard Banach
‡ Computer Science Dept., Manchester University, Manchester, United Kingdom
Open Access
Abstract
The transitive coercing semantic model for the execution of the MONSTR generalised term graph rewriting language is defined. Of all the operational semantics for MONSTR that on e might consider, this one has the cleanest properties. Under intuitively obvious conditions fo r executions involving redexes permitted to overlap sufficiently to allow the programming of deterministic synchronisations, and despite the failure of exact subcommutativity, a Church-Rosser theorem is proved to hold up to markings and garbage.