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An update calculus for expressing type-safe program updates

Creator:

Oregon State University. Dept. of Computer Science, Erwig, Martin, and Ren, Deling

Abstract:

Many software maintenance problems are caused by using text editors to change programs. A more systematic and reliable way of performing program updates is to express changes with an update language. In particular, updates should preserve the syntax- and type-correctness of the transformed object programs. We describe an update calculus...

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Research Paper

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of the transformed object programs. We describe an update calculus that can be used to update lambda