Side Effects in Steering Fragments: Defining Side Effects using Dynamic Logic and Short-Circuit Logic - Softcover

Wortel, Lars

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3846514829 ISBN 13: 9783846514825

Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

In programming practice, side effects are a well-known phenomenon. However, a formal definition of side effects is missing. Intuitively, a side effect of a propositional statement is a change in state of a program or model other than the effect (or change in state) it was initially executed for. In this book, I will check this intuition and I will give a formal definition of side effects. I will do so by modifying a system for modelling program instructions and program states, Quantified Dynamic Logic (QDL), to a system called Dynamic Logic with Assignments as Formulas (DLAf), which in contrast to QDL allows assignments in formulas and makes use of short-circuit evaluation. I will show the underlying logic in those formulas to be a variant of short-circuit logic called repetition-proof short-circuit logic. Using that, I can give the definition and even a classification of side effects. The definition and the classification of side effects outlined in this book not only open doors to further research in this area, but also hold high potential for applications in the programming industry.

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Lars Wortel, M.Sc. studied Computer Science and Logic at the University of Amsterdam. He currently works for Capgemini Netherlands as a Business Analyst.

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• Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3846514829
• ISBN 13: 9783846514825
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 92
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