2000ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and SystemsOpen access

Lazy rewriting on eager machinery

Wan J. Fokkink, Jasper F.T Kamperman, Pum Walters

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The article introduces a novel notion of lazy rewriting. By annotating argument positions as lazy, redundant rewrite steps are avoided, and the termination behavior of a term-rewriting system can be improved. Some transformations of rewrite rules enable an implementation using the same primitives as an implementation of eager rewriting.

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The article introduces a novel notion of lazy rewriting. By annotating argument positions as lazy, redundant rewrite steps are avoided, and the termination behavior of a term-rewriting system can be improved. Some transformations of rewrite rules enable an implementation using the same primitives as an implementation of eager rewriting.

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The article introduces a novel notion of lazy rewriting. By annotating argument positions as lazy, redundant rewrite steps are avoided, and the termination behavior of a term-rewriting system can be improved. Some transformations of rewrite rules enable an implementation using the same primitives as an implementation of eager rewriting.

Key concepts: Rewriting, Computer science, Programming language, Confluence, Lazy evaluation, Term (time), Argument (complex analysis), Program transformation

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