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full abstraction: a standalone construct

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Programming languages

the property that a denotational semantics equates exactly those program fragments that cannot be told apart in any context.

In programming languages, full abstraction refers to the property that a denotational semantics equates exactly those program fragments that cannot be told apart in any context. This meaning comes from Milner (1977) in Theoretical Computer Science.[1]

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References

Milner, R. (1977). Fully abstract models of typed λ-calculi. Theoretical Computer Science, 4(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3975(77)90053-6

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