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We describe the promotion technique in Z. Some of its formal properties have been investigated, and it has been shown how to perform data refinement on promoted operations. In this paper, we show how promotion is closely allied to procedures and their parameters. We take the most commonly used form of promotion, and show that it may be implemented using call-by-reference parameters.
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Woodcock, J.C.P. (1992). Implementing Promoted Operations in Z. In: Jones, C.B., Shaw, R.C., Denvir, T. (eds) 5th Refinement Workshop. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3550-0_19
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