A Bisimulation for Dynamic Sealing

Eijiro Sumii and Benjamin C. Pierce

To appear at Principles of Programming Languages (POPL04), Venice, Italy, January 14-16, 2004


Abstract

We define lambda-seal, an untyped call-by-value lambda-calculus with primitives for _sealing_, and develop a bisimulation proof method that is sound and complete with respect to contextual equivalence. This provides a formal basis for reasoning about data abstraction in open, dynamic settings where static techniques such as type abstraction and logical relations are not applicable.


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