English

Encoding Tight Typing in a Unified Framework

Logic in Computer Science 2021-10-29 v3 Programming Languages

Abstract

This paper explores how the intersection type theories of call-by-name (CBN) and call-by-value (CBV) can be unified in a more general framework provided by call-by-push-value (CBPV). Indeed, we propose tight type systems for CBN and CBV that can be both encoded in a unique tight type system for CBPV. All such systems are quantitative, ie. they provide exact information about the length of normalization sequences to normal form as well as the size of these normal forms. Moreover, the length of reduction sequences are discriminated according to their multiplicative and exponential nature, a concept inherited from linear logic. Last but not least, it is possible to extract quantitative measures for CBN and CBV from their corresponding encodings in CBPV.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2105.00564,
  title  = {Encoding Tight Typing in a Unified Framework},
  author = {Delia Kesner and Andrés Viso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.00564},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2002.04011

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