Computer Science – Logic in Computer Science
Scientific paper
2010-05-24
Computer Science
Logic in Computer Science
Scientific paper
Dependently typed lambda calculi such as the Logical Framework (LF) can encode relationships between terms in types and can naturally capture correspondences between formulas and their proofs. Such calculi can also be given a logic programming interpretation: the Twelf system is based on such an interpretation of LF. We consider here whether a conventional logic programming language can provide the benefits of a Twelf-like system for encoding type and proof-and-formula dependencies. In particular, we present a simple mapping from LF specifications to a set of formulas in the higher-order hereditary Harrop (hohh) language, that relates derivations and proof-search between the two frameworks. We then show that this encoding can be improved by exploiting knowledge of the well-formedness of the original LF specifications to elide much redundant type-checking information. The resulting logic program has a structure that closely resembles the original specification, thereby allowing LF specifications to be viewed as hohh meta-programs. Using the Teyjus implementation of lambdaProlog, we show that our translation provides an efficient means for executing LF specifications, complementing the ability that the Twelf system provides for reasoning about them.
Baelde David
Nadathur Gopalan
Snow Zachary
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