Computer Science > Programming Languages
[Submitted on 21 Jun 2016]
Title:Answer-Type Modification without Tears: Prompt-Passing Style Translation for Typed Delimited-Control Operators
View PDFAbstract:The salient feature of delimited-control operators is their ability to modify answer types during computation. The feature, answer-type modification (ATM for short), allows one to express various interesting programs such as typed printf compactly and nicely, while it makes it difficult to embed these operators in standard functional languages.
In this paper, we present a typed translation of delimited-control operators shift and reset with ATM into a familiar language with multi-prompt shift and reset without ATM, which lets us use ATM in standard languages without modifying the type system. Our translation generalizes Kiselyov's direct-style implementation of typed printf, which uses two prompts to emulate the modification of answer types, and passes them during computation. We prove that our translation preserves typing. As the naive prompt-passing style translation generates and passes many prompts even for pure terms, we show an optimized translation that generate prompts only when needed, which is also type-preserving. Finally, we give an implementation in the tagless-final style which respects typing by construction.
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From: EPTCS [view email] [via EPTCS proxy][v1] Tue, 21 Jun 2016 00:45:51 UTC (27 KB)
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