A Programmer's Mental Model for Proving

This paper presents an approach to formal verification in Lean based on modeling program behavior through paths in a control-flow graph. Using the Averroes Lisp parser as a case study, it expresses path conditions as theorem hypotheses and specifies the semantics of each path’s returned value in the theorem’s conclusion.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-11-07
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24030829
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Logic, programming, and type systems
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A Programmer's Mental Model for Proving

Yazan Daba
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Logic, programming, and type systems
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A Programmer's Mental Model for Proving

Yazan Daba
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Abstract

This paper presents an approach to formal verification in Lean based on modeling program behavior through paths in a control-flow graph. Using the Averroes Lisp parser as a case study, it expresses path conditions as theorem hypotheses and specifies the semantics of each path’s returned value in the theorem’s conclusion.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Logic, programming, and type systems
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