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We consider the problem of modularizing control flow in a generic abstract interpretation framework. A generic abstract interpretation framework is not truly flexible if it does not allow interpreting with different path- and…

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Notions of computation can be modelled by monads. Algebraic effects offer a characterization of monads in terms of algebraic operations and equational axioms, where operations are basic programming features, such as reading or updating the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Cristina Matache , Sam Lindley , Sean Moss , Sam Staton , Nicolas Wu , Zhixuan Yang

This paper studies the design of programming languages with handlers of higher-order effectful operations -- effectful operations that may take in computations as arguments or return computations as output. We present and analyse a core…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhixuan Yang , Nicolas Wu

PRholog is an experimental extension of logic programming with strategic conditional transformation rules, combining Prolog with Rholog calculus. The rules perform nondeterministic transformations on hedges. Queries may have several results…

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In the quest to give a formal compositional semantics to natural languages, semanticists have started turning their attention to phenomena that have been also considered as parts of pragmatics (e.g., discourse anaphora and presupposition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Jiri Marsik , Maxime Amblard

Many computer algebra systems have more than 1000 built-in functions, making expertise difficult. Using mock dialog boxes, this article describes a proposed interactive general-purpose wizard for organizing optional transformations and…

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Partial functions are common abstractions in formal specification notations such as Z, B and Alloy. Conversely, executable programming languages usually provide little or no support for them. In this paper we propose to add partial…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Maximiliano Cristia , Gianfranco Rossi , Claudia Frydman

Many effect systems for algebraic effect handlers are designed to guarantee that all invoked effects are handled adequately. However, respective researchers have developed their own effect systems that differ in how to represent the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Takuma Yoshioka , Taro Sekiyama , Atsushi Igarashi

In compositional model-theoretic semantics, researchers assemble truth-conditions or other kinds of denotations using the lambda calculus. It was previously observed that the lambda terms and/or the denotations studied tend to follow the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Jirka Maršík , Maxime Amblard

We present a gradually typed language, GrEff, with effects and handlers that supports migration from unchecked to checked effect typing. This serves as a simple model of the integration of an effect typing discipline with an existing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Max S. New , Eric Giovannini , Daniel R. Licata

Refactoring is an established technique from the object-oriented (OO) programming community to restructure code: it aims at improving software readability, maintainability and extensibility. Although refactoring is not tied to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Alexander Serebrenik , Tom Schrijvers , Bart Demoen

Probabilistic extensions of logic programming languages, such as ProbLog, integrate logical reasoning with probabilistic inference to evaluate probabilities of output relations; however, prior work does not account for potential statistical…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Jingbo Wang , Shashin Halalingaiah , Weiyi Chen , Chao Wang , Isil Dillig

Variable environment is the time-honored way of making sense of free variables, used in programming language theory as well when writing interpreters and some compilers. Algebraic effects give another way, as was pointed already at HOPE…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Oleg Kiselyov

The semantics and the recursive execution model of Prolog make it very natural to express language interpreters in form of AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) interpreters where the execution follows the tree representation of a program. An…

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The lower and upper bound of any given algorithm is one of the most crucial pieces of information needed when evaluating the computational effectiveness for said algorithm. Here a novel method of Boolean Algebraic Programming for symbolic…

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We present a comprehensive programme analysing the decomposition of proof systems for non-classical logics into proof systems for other logics, especially classical logic, using an algebra of constraints. That is, one recovers a proof…

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To appear in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP). Several Prolog interpreters are based on the Warren Abstract Machine (WAM), an elegant model to compile Prolog programs. In order to improve the performance several strategies…

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In order to achieve competitive performance, abstract machines for Prolog and related languages end up being large and intricate, and incorporate sophisticated optimizations, both at the design and at the implementation levels. At the same…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Jose F. Morales , Manuel Carro , Manuel Hermenegildo

This note recapitulates and expands the contents of a tutorial on the mathematical theory of algebraic effects and handlers which I gave at the Dagstuhl seminar 18172 "Algebraic effect handlers go mainstream". It is targeted roughly at the…

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We extend a technique called Compiling Control. The technique transforms coroutining logic programs into logic programs that, when executed under the standard left-to-right selection rule (and not using any delay features) have the same…

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