The long and winding road... to a master thesis

In this post I will show two different sets of properties that any variation of λ-calculus with explicit substitutions may or must have. The must: 1) Any substitution must end, i. e. the process of change a variable by a term must always end, no matter...

In all previous posts I've tried to teach the different aspects inside my thesis. But after going deeper and deeper, the concepts tend to complicate too much, and much more dedication from the reader is needed. After trying to add another technical...

Explicit Substitutions, or Substitutions If You Need to Implement Them

With this cite of Monthy Python, I will move into another family of calculi. What's wrong with our good ol' λ-calculus? Nearly nothing, except if you want to implement it in a real PC. In one of the firsts posts I've mentioned the α-congruence. The...