A Minimalist's Reversible While Language

Robert GLÜCK; Tetsuo YOKOYAMA

doi:10.1587/transinf.2016EDP7274

A Minimalist's Reversible While Language

Robert GLÜCK, Tetsuo YOKOYAMA

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The paper presents a small reversible language R-CORE, a structured imperative programming language with symbolic tree-structured data (S-expressions). The language is reduced to the core of a reversible language, with a single command for reversibly updating the store, a single reversible control-flow operator, a limited number of variables, and data with a single atom and a single constructor. Despite its extreme simplicity, the language is reversibly universal, which means that it is as powerful as any reversible language can be, while it is linear-time self-interpretable, and it allows reversible programming with dynamic data structures. The four-line program inverter for R-CORE is among the shortest existing program inverters, which demonstrates the conciseness of the language. The translator to R-CORE, which is used to show the formal properties of the language, is clean and modular, and it may serve as a model for related reversible translation problems. The goal is to provide a language that is sufficiently concise for theoretical investigations. Owing to its simplicity, the language may also be used for educational purposes.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E100-D No.5 pp.1026-1034

Publication Date: 2017/05/01

Publicized: 2017/02/06

Online ISSN: 1745-1361

DOI: 10.1587/transinf.2016EDP7274

Type of Manuscript: PAPER

Category: Software System

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Robert GLÜCK
University of Copenhagen
Tetsuo YOKOYAMA
Nanzan University

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reversible programming language, reversible self-interpreter, while language, translation, program inversion

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Robert GLÜCK, Tetsuo YOKOYAMA, "A Minimalist's Reversible While Language" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information, vol. E100-D, no. 5, pp. 1026-1034, May 2017, doi: 10.1587/transinf.2016EDP7274.
Abstract: The paper presents a small reversible language R-CORE, a structured imperative programming language with symbolic tree-structured data (S-expressions). The language is reduced to the core of a reversible language, with a single command for reversibly updating the store, a single reversible control-flow operator, a limited number of variables, and data with a single atom and a single constructor. Despite its extreme simplicity, the language is reversibly universal, which means that it is as powerful as any reversible language can be, while it is linear-time self-interpretable, and it allows reversible programming with dynamic data structures. The four-line program inverter for R-CORE is among the shortest existing program inverters, which demonstrates the conciseness of the language. The translator to R-CORE, which is used to show the formal properties of the language, is clean and modular, and it may serve as a model for related reversible translation problems. The goal is to provide a language that is sufficiently concise for theoretical investigations. Owing to its simplicity, the language may also be used for educational purposes.
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