Abstract:Efficient pattern matching is fundamental for practical term rewrite engines.
By preprocessing the given patterns into a finite deterministic automaton the
matching patterns can be decided in a single traversal of the relevant parts of
the input term. Most automaton-based techniques are restricted to linear
patterns, where each variable occurs at most once, and require an additional
post-processing step to check so-called variable consistency. However, we can
show that interleaving the variable consistency and… Show more
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