From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5116 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Stay Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: typed lambda calculus:cartesian closed :sorted pi calculus:? Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:40:47 -0700 Message-ID: Reply-To: Mike Stay NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251561999 4032 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2009 16:06:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:06:39 +0000 (UTC) To: categories Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Sat Aug 29 18:06:32 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MhQRk-0008JD-AP for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:06:32 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1MhPtx-0005Dh-Nb for categories-list@mta.ca; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:31:37 -0300 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5116 Archived-At: As far as I can tell, the major difference between lambda calculus and pi calculus is that the rewrite rules in pi calculus aren't confluent, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to consider rewrite-equivalence classes of terms. What kind of category (or bicategory) does sorted pi calculus give? -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://math.ucr.edu/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]