Lecture: Proving Properties of Recursive List Functions

Background Material

• Induction
• Recursion and Induction
• Lists and Recursion
• Recursive Data Structures

Reading

• Little Prover (chapters 1-6)

Topics

• Substitution semantics
• Equational reasoning
• Definitional principle
• Structural induction
• Proving properties of lists (length, append, reverse)

Lecture Notes

• listproof.pptx or listproof.pdf

Programs

• none yet

Resources

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