Witnessing side-effects

Tachio Terauchi; Alex Aiken

doi:10.1145/1090189.1086379

Witnessing side-effects

Tachio Terauchi^*, Alex Aiken

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Abstract

We present a new approach to the old problem of adding side effects to purely functional languages. Our idea is to extend the language with "witnesses," which is based on an arguably more pragmatic motivation than past approaches. We give a semantic condition for correctness and prove it is sufficient. We also give a static checking algorithm that makes use of a network flow property equivalent to the semantic condition.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	105-115
Number of pages	11
Journal	ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Volume	40
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1090189.1086379
Publication status	Published - 2005
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Functional languages
Side-effects

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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