Refinement semantics and loop rules

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Refinement semantics is an alternative to least fixpoint semantics that is more useful for programming. From it we derive a variety of rules for while-loops, for-loops, and loops with intermediate and deep exits. We illustrate the use of these rules with examples.

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Hehner, E. C. R., & Gravell, A. M. (1999). Refinement semantics and loop rules. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 1709, pp. 1497–1510). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48118-4_29

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