by Sergio Antoy, Michael Hanus
Proc. of the 14th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 2012), Springer LNCS 7149, pp. 33-47, 2012
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The expressive power of functional logic languages supports high-level specifications as well as efficient implementations of problems in the same language. If specifications are executable, they can be used both as initial prototypical implementations and as contracts for checking the reliable execution of implementations intended to satisfy the specification. In this paper, we propose a practical framework to support this general approach to coding. We discuss the notions of specifications and contracts for functional logic programming and present a tool that supports the development of declarative programs based on these notions.
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