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potato-peeler
3 months ago
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Some silly Z3 scripts I wrote
For the curious, solvers like z3 are used in programming languages to verify logic and constraints. Basically it can help find logic issues and bugs during compile time itself, instead of waiting for it to show up in runtime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfiability_modulo_theories...
bjornsing
3 months ago
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The concept is called static analysis.
ukuina
3 months ago
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Seems adjacent, with some overlap.
lkuty
3 months ago
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Like in the Dafny pogramming language. Cfr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLS_y842fMc
mathisfun123
3 months ago
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in theory that's what a compiler is - a thin wrapper over a SAT solver. in practice most compilers just use heuristics <shrug>.
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