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The primary motivation behind this paper is an interest in transforming one semantic description for a language into another related description of the same language. Since direct and continuation semantics have been studied in some detail, they are obvious test-beds for suggesting the problems that might be encountered in the process. One of the problems is that the semantic objects in two descriptions of a language may be quite dissimilar. For example, function values of procedures in direct semantics are quite different from function values in continuation semantics. Milne and Reynolds have defined predicates which can be used to relate the two kinds of function values. Starting with such predicates we define transformations and then show that the transformations preserve the predicates. The transformations are used to construct continuation semantics, starting from a direct semantics of a language with procedures called by value.
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Sethi, R., Tang, A. (1979). Constructing call-by-value continuation semantics. In: Maurer, H.A. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1979. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 71. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-09510-1_45
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