Abstract
By giving a declarative meaning to an imperative program, the verification of the imperative program is switched from the imperative paradigm to the declarative or logic paradigm where one can take advantage of, for example, referential transparency. Rather than ‘compiling’ an imperative program to a ‘lower level’ we ‘inverse compile’ the imperative program to the ‘higher’ declarative level. The declarative view of an imperative program is a predicate associated with the imperative program such that if this predicate satisfies the specification of the program then the imperative program is correct relative to the specification. In one sense the associated predicate gives a declarative meaning to the imperative program.
Highlights
In imperative programming, programs are implicitly state transformations
We want to abstract away from dealing with states and try to express programs within the “problem domain”, that is, we want to give a declarative meaning to imperative programs
By transforming a structured program to an ‘assignment-less’ program we indicate a non-operational declarative meaning to the program
Summary
We want to abstract away from dealing with states and try to express programs within the “problem domain”, that is, we want to give a declarative meaning to imperative programs. Imperative programs may have functional and relational features - functions and procedures - but they contain constructs which deal only with state transformation e.g. the assignment statement. We consider a more general use of wp that will give a declarative meaning to a program such as MOD. Our aim is to associate the predicate wp(PROG, z = z!) with the program PROG and show how, in particular, this gives an appropriate meaning to the program for proving the program correct. We first consider when the program, PROG, is just the assignment statement
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