Tachio Terauchi and Alexander Aiken

EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-05-1402
July 2005

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2005/CSD-05-1402.pdf

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.

BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Terauchi:CSD-05-1402,
    Author = {Terauchi, Tachio and Aiken, Alexander},
    Title = {Witnessing Side-Effects},
    Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year = {2005},
    Month = {Jul},
    URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2005/6471.html},
    Number = {UCB/CSD-05-1402},
    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.}
}

EndNote citation:

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%A Aiken, Alexander
%T Witnessing Side-Effects
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2005
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