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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2019.32
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-105391
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2019/10539/
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Veltri, Niccolò ; van der Weide, Niels

Guarded Recursion in Agda via Sized Types

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Abstract

In type theory, programming and reasoning with possibly non-terminating programs and potentially infinite objects is achieved using coinductive types. Recursively defined programs of these types need to be productive to guarantee the consistency of the type system. Proof assistants such as Agda and Coq traditionally employ strict syntactic productivity checks, which often make programming with coinductive types convoluted. One way to overcome this issue is by encoding productivity at the level of types so that the type system forbids the implementation of non-productive corecursive programs. In this paper we compare two different approaches to type-based productivity: guarded recursion and sized types. More specifically, we show how to simulate guarded recursion in Agda using sized types. We formalize the syntax of a simple type theory for guarded recursion, which is a variant of Atkey and McBride's calculus for productive coprogramming. Then we give a denotational semantics using presheaves over the preorder of sizes. Sized types are fundamentally used to interpret the characteristic features of guarded recursion, notably the fixpoint combinator.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{veltri_et_al:LIPIcs:2019:10539,
  author =	{Niccol{\`o} Veltri and Niels van der Weide},
  title =	{{Guarded Recursion in Agda via Sized Types}},
  booktitle =	{4th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2019)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-107-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{131},
  editor =	{Herman Geuvers},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2019/10539},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-105391},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2019.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: guarded recursion, type theory, semantics, coinduction, sized types}
}

Keywords: guarded recursion, type theory, semantics, coinduction, sized types
Collection: 4th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2019)
Issue Date: 2019
Date of publication: 18.06.2019

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