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Conference on Domain-Specific Languages, 1997
A Modular Monadic Action Semantics
Keith Wansbrough and John Hamer
University of Auckland
Abstract
A domain-specific language (DSL) is a framework which is designed to
precisely meet the needs of a particular application. Domain-specific
languages exist for a variety of reasons. As productivity tools, they
are used to make application prototyping and development faster and more
robust in the presence of evolving requirements. Furthermore, by
bridging the "semantic gap" between an application domain and program
code, DSLs increase the opportunity to apply formal methods in proving
properties of an application.
In this paper, we contribute a synthesis of two existing systems that
address the problem of providing sound semantic descriptions of
realistic programming languages: action semantics and modular monadic
semantics. The resulting synthes is, modular monadic action semantics,
is compatible with action semantics yet adds true modularity and allows
domain specific specifications to be made at a variety of levels.
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