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On 28/02/14 13:41, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
> Crashing is usually formalised by the "progress" and "type 
> preservation" theorems that papers about statically-typed
> programming languages usually offer.  You will find many examples
> of such theorems (and their proofs) in the papers about GHC's
> intermediate language 
> http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/ext-f/
>
>  A "crash" would mean that execution get stuck, and the progress 
> theorem guarantees that cannot happen.
Would you, or anyone else, be able to make a wiki article on these
theorems? So that we have a centralised resource that we can refer to.
- -- 
Alexander
[email protected]
https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander
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