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Re:The Two Abstractions of System Design: Hide or Reduce by mad44 on Friday September 04, 2026 @12:42PM (#49566994)
Yes. The followup blogpost makes this more concrete over an example:

https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/08/composition-and-mo... The rely-guarantee reasoning we used in this post is where the two abstractions meet and become a joint constraint. The modularity abstraction is the boundary: we split the specs into private versus interface variables, hiding produced from the consumer and consumed from the producer. The modeling abstraction is the Env actions. E.g., EnvPut is not an API for the producer, it is a reduction of the producer: the minimal behavioral skeleton of the entire producer relevant to the consumer's property.

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