<p>In this paper we outline a category-theoretic approach to the semantics of ALGOL-like languages in which particular attention is paid to the use of functor categories as a mechanism to reflect stack discipline.</p><p>Also, we explore the idea that implicit conversions can be modelled by making the phrase types of a language into a poset, and we show how any poset freely generates a type algebra.</p>
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