Internal program extraction in the calculus of inductive constructions

Based on the Calculus of Constructions extended with inductive definitions we present a Theory of Specifications with rules for simultaneously constructing programs and their correctness proofs. The theory contains types for representing specifications, whose corresponding notion of implementation i...

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Main Author: Severi, Paula (author)
Other Authors: Szasz, Nora (author)
Format: report
Published: 2002
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/3487
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Summary:Based on the Calculus of Constructions extended with inductive definitions we present a Theory of Specifications with rules for simultaneously constructing programs and their correctness proofs. The theory contains types for representing specifications, whose corresponding notion of implementation is that of a pair formed by a program and a correctness proof. The rules of the theory are sych that in implementations the program parts appear mixed together with the proof parts. A reduction relation performs the task of separating programs from proofs. Consequently, every implementation computes to a pair composed of a program and a proof of its correctness, and so the program extraction procedure is immediate.