Name Groups and Group Creation: Semantics and Applications

  • Luca Cardelli ,
  • Silvano Dal Zilio ,
  • Giorgio Ghelli ,
  • Andrew D. Gordon ,
  • Andy Gordon

Just as the new-name construct of the p-calculus models dynamic generation of values, a new-group construct models dynamic generation of types, as in, for instance, Tofte and Talpin’s region-based memory management.