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Erlang Specification Language
1 Background
Erlang is an expression-oriented, single-assignment, garbage-collected, purely functional language. There are no loops, so recursion is heavily used.
A specification language is a formal language used in computer science. Specification languages are used during systems analysis, requirements analysis and systems design. They describe the system at a much higher level than a programming language, it meant to describe the what, not the how (without implementation details).
2 Goal
To design a language for the specification of properties of Erlang values, functions and modules.
3 Work plan
- Study the collection of Erlang expressions, functions and modules
- Describe, in natural language, the interactions of such expressions, functions and modules with the environment and their expected results w.r.t. the environment
- Design a formal language expressive enough to capture the properties described in the previous point
- Use the language designed to describe a chosen module/library