The Correctness of Launchbury's Natural Semantics for Lazy Evaluation
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semanticsnaturaldenotationalevaluationlaunchburylazyadjustingcorrect
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In his seminal paper "A Natural Semantics for Lazy Evaluation", John Launchbury proves his semantics correct with respect to a denotational semantics. We machine-checked the proof and found it to fail, and provide two ways to fix it: One by taking a detour via a modified natural semantics with an explicit stack, and one by adjusting the denotational semantics of heaps.
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