@Article{MossakowskiEA09,
  author = {Till Mossakowski and Lutz Schr{\"o}der and Sergey Goncharov},
  title = {A Generic Complete Dynamic Logic for Reasoning about Purity and Effects},
  year = {2010},
  journal = {Formal Aspects of Computing},
  volume = {22},
  pages = {363-384},
  number = {3-4},
  keywords = {monad logic purity side-effect soundness completeness},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00165-010-0153-4},
  pdfurl = {http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~lschrode/papers/mdl-compl.pdf},
  abstract = {For a number of programming languages, among them Eiffel, C, Java, and Ruby, Hoare-style logics
and dynamic logics have been developed. In these logics, pre- and postconditions are typically formulated
using potentially effectful programs. In order to ensure that these pre- and postconditions behave like logical
formulae (that is, enjoy some kind of referential transparency), a notion of purity is needed. Here, we introduce a
generic framework for reasoning about purity and effects. Effects are modelled abstractly and axiomatically, using
Moggi’s idea of encapsulation of effects as monads.We introduce a dynamic logic (from which, as usual, a Hoare
logic can be derived) whose logical formulae are pure programs in a strong sense. We formulate a set of proof
rules for this logic, and prove it to be complete with respect to a categorical semantics. Using dynamic logic, we
then develop a relaxed notion of purity which allows for observationally neutral effects such writing on newly
allocated memory.},
  issn = {0934-5043},
  status = {Reviewed}
}