Notation
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Notation
v : τ
means valuev
has typeτ
.X = a
means that a type or a valueX
is an alias fora
.X := [something]
means thatX
is defined to be[something]
- A percent sign
%
preceded only by spaces starts a line comment% [comment]
- We use
·
to denote that we do not care about the value some variable takes. For example, when quantifying over a set of tuples of the form [math]\displaystyle{ (x, y) }[/math] we may use a [math]\displaystyle{ (x, \cdot) }[/math] to express that we do not care about the value [math]\displaystyle{ y }[/math] takes in each of the tuples. - Let
X
be a set or a sequence. We use|X|
to denote the size/length of the set/sequence. - Let
X
be a sequence. We useX[i]
to access the element inX
at indexi
andX[u…v]
to refer to a slice of the sequence starting at indexu
and ending at indexv
. For example, for a sequenceX := (a, b, c, d)
, theslice X[2…3] = (b, c)
. - We define the concatenation of two ordered sequences [math]\displaystyle{ a := (x_1, …, x_m) }[/math] and [math]\displaystyle{ b := (y_1, …, y_n) }[/math] as [math]\displaystyle{ (x_1, …, x_m, y_1, …, y_n) }[/math].
- We often work with partial maps [math]\displaystyle{ M: X \mapsto Y }[/math], which we write as [math]\displaystyle{ \{ (x_1 \mapsto y_1), \dots, (x_n \mapsto y_n) \} }[/math], where [math]\displaystyle{ \forall~ i, 1 \leq i \leq n : x_i \in X \land y_i \in Y }[/math] and [math]\displaystyle{ \nexists~ i, j, 1 \leq i, j \leq n: x_i = x_j \land i \neq j }[/math]. We note that partial maps can be nested, i.e., the set [math]\displaystyle{ Y }[/math] could again be a partial map