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  • Olaf Chitil
    +A Theory of Tracing Pure Functional Programs
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    +During the development of the Haskell tracer Hat, which combines the tracing +methods of several preceding systems, numerous inconsistencies, anomalies and +defects in all existing systems came to light. Experience in using the systems +suggests desirable generalisations that are hard to realise. At the root of +both problems is that the development of the existing systems was +implementation-driven, guided mostly by intuition. There is a surprising lack +of theoretical foundations for tracing. To resolve the inconsistencies and +enable generalisations, this project aims at establishing a semantical theory +of tracing pure functional programs, both eager and lazy, that describes +different methods, links information gained from tracing to specific program +parts, and establishes the correctness of fault location algorithms. +
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