From: Greg Meredith <lgreg.meredith@biosimilarity.com>
To: Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com>, Categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Evaluation of source code, category theoretically?
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 09:46:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Vzc73-0007uI-Gv@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
Dear Mike,
You might consider the literature on normalization by
evaluation<https://www.google.com/search?q=normalization+by+evaluation&oq=normalization+by+evaluation&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.6625j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8>
.
Best wishes,
--greg
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the right way to think about evaluation in category theory?
> I'm guessing it will look kind of like this: the category will be
> symmetric monoidal closed and equipped with an object S whose points
> are "source code", together with a collection of interpreter
> epimorphisms
> run_{X, Y}: S -> [X, Y]
> and some notion of composition in S that works well with composition
> of morphisms.
>
> What are the right keywords for doing a literature search on this?
> --
> Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike
> http://reperiendi.wordpress.com
>
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2014-01-04 20:48 ` Mike Stay
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2014-01-02 18:05 Mike Stay
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