Re: [Scheme-reports] Formal comment: The denotational semantics

[Eli Barzilay <eli@x>]

9 hours ago, John Cowan wrote:
> Perry E. Metzger scripsit:
> 
> > A +1 for switching to an operational semantics. It would be
> > especially cool to develop an executable semantics...
> 
> If we are to take the semantics seriously, I think it means
> developing one whose soundness can be established with a proof
> assistant.

Why the hypothetical tone?  There *was* already an implementation of
operational semantics, which *did* use a mechanical tool that can run
them.

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