Towards a module system for K

Abstract

Research on the semantics of programming languages has yielded a wide array of notations and methodologies for defining languages and language features. An important feature many of these notations and methodologies lack is modularity: the ability to define a language feature once, insulating it from unrelated changes in other parts of the language, and allowing it to be reused in other language definitions. This paper introduces ongoing work on modularity features in K, an algebraic, rewriting logic based formalism for defining language semantics. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.