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Higher-order abstract syntax: setting the record straight

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ACM SIGACT News archive
Volume 37 , Issue 3 (September 2006) table of contents

COLUMN: Logic: SIGACT news logic column 16 table of contents

Pages: 93 - 96

Year of Publication: 2006

ISSN:0163-5700

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Karl Crary	Carnegie Mellon University
Robert Harper	Carnegie Mellon University

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

A recent SIGACT News Logic column, guest-written by James Cheney DOI = 10.1145/1107523.1107537, discussed nominal logic [1], an approach to abstract syntax with binding structure. In addition to providing a worthy tutorial on nominal logic, that column leveled five criticisms at higher-order abstract syntax, an alternative approach for dealing with binding structure in abstract syntax. We argue below that three of those criticisms are factually inaccurate, and the other two are misguided.

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	2	Robert Harper , Furio Honsell , Gordon Plotkin, A framework for defining logics, Journal of the ACM (JACM), v.40 n.1, p.143-184, Jan. 1993 [doi>10.1145/138027.138060]
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