act: Technical report
arXiv:2604.02955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This technical report contains the formal definitions and metatheory for the act specification and verification language. It documents the syntax, the operational pointer semantics, the type system and the main metatheoretic results (type-safety).
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Abstract:This technical report contains the formal definitions and metatheory for the act specification and verification language. It documents the syntax, the operational pointer semantics, the type system and the main metatheoretic results (type-safety).
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Programming Languages (cs.PL); Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
Cite as: arXiv:2604.02955 [cs.PL]
(or arXiv:2604.02955v1 [cs.PL] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.02955
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From: Anja Petković Komel [view email] [v1] Fri, 3 Apr 2026 10:42:14 UTC (120 KB)
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