Computation on abstract data types. The extensional approach, with an application to streams
Solomon Feferman · Annals of Pure and Applied Logic · 1996
In this paper we specialize the notion of abstract computational procedure previously introduced for intensionally presented structures to those which are extensionally given. This is provided by a form of generalized recursion theory which uses schemata for explicit definition, conditional definition and least fixed point (LFP) recursion in functionals of type level ≤ 2 over any appropriate structure. It is applied here to the case of potentially infinite (and more general partial) streams as an abstract data type.