Semantic diffing of formal policies with anti-unification

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When reviewing code, you start with a diff. You wouldn’t compare two 3,000-line files by eye and hope to spot every change. Formal policies can be even harder to compare because a textual diff often highlights syntactic changes that don’t affect meaning. Reorder two conjuncts, swap the arguments of an equality, or use an equivalent predicate, and much of the file might appear changed. A real change in behavior, such as an Or where the requirement says and , can get lost in that noise. A…