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Inference algorithms for probabilistic programming are complex imperative programs with many moving parts. Efficient inference often requires customising an algorithm to a particular probabilistic model or problem, sometimes called…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Minh Nguyen , Roly Perera , Meng Wang , Steven Ramsay

We explore asynchronous programming with algebraic effects. We complement their conventional synchronous treatment by showing how to naturally also accommodate asynchrony within them, namely, by decoupling the execution of operation calls…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Danel Ahman , Matija Pretnar

We explore asynchronous programming with algebraic effects. We complement their conventional synchronous treatment by showing how to naturally also accommodate asynchrony within them, namely, by decoupling the execution of operation calls…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Danel Ahman , Matija Pretnar

We provide an effect system CatEff based on a category-graded extension of algebraic theories that correspond to category-graded monads. CatEff has category-graded operations and handlers. Effects in CatEff are graded by morphisms of the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Takahiro Sanada

This paper presents the Functional Machine Calculus (FMC) as a simple model of higher-order computation with "reader/writer" effects: higher-order mutable store, input/output, and probabilistic and non-deterministic computation. The FMC…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Willem Heijltjes

We present an effect system for core Eff, a simplified variant of Eff, which is an ML-style programming language with first-class algebraic effects and handlers. We define an expressive effect system and prove safety of operational…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Andrej Bauer , Matija Pretnar

Algebraic effects and handlers are a powerful abstraction to build non-local control-flow mechanisms such as resumable exceptions, lightweight threads, co-routines, generators, and asynchronous I/O. All of such features have very evolved…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Tiago Soares , Mário Pereira

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

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

Algebraic effects are computational effects that can be described with a set of basic operations and equations between them. As many interesting effect handlers do not respect these equations, most approaches assume a trivial theory,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Žiga Lukšič , Matija Pretnar

Effect handlers allow programmers to model and compose computational effects modularly. Effect systems statically guarantee that all effects are handled. Several recent practical effect systems are based on either row polymorphism or…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Wenhao Tang , Sam Lindley

Soundness and completeness with respect to equational theories for programming languages are fundamental properties in the study of categorical semantics. However, completeness results have not been established for programming languages…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Satoshi Kura

Algebraic effects and handlers have emerged in the programming languages community as a convenient, modular abstraction for controlling computational effects. They have found several applications including concurrent programming, meta…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Dave Moore , Maria I. Gorinova

Type systems usually characterize the shape of values but not their free variables. However, many desirable safety properties could be guaranteed if one knew the free variables captured by values. We describe CCsubBox, a calculus where such…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Martin Odersky , Aleksander Boruch-Gruszecki , Edward Lee , Jonathan Brachthäuser , Ondřej Lhoták

We show how to smoothly incorporate in the object-oriented paradigm constructs to raise, compose, and handle effects in an arbitrary monad. The underlying pure calculus is meant to be a representative of the last generation of OO languages,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Francesco Dagnino , Paola Giannini , Elena Zucca

Pressed by the difficulty of writing asynchronous, event-driven code, mainstream languages have recently been building in support for a variety of advanced control-flow features. Meanwhile, experimental language designs have suggested…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Yizhou Zhang , Guido Salvaneschi , Andrew C. Myers

Type systems usually characterize the shape of values but not their free variables. However, there are many desirable safety properties one could guarantee if one could track how references can escape. For example, one may implement…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Aleksander Boruch-Gruszecki , Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser , Edward Lee , Ondřej Lhoták , Martin Odersky

The Algebraic lambda-calculus and the Linear-Algebraic lambda-calculus extend the lambda-calculus with the possibility of making arbitrary linear combinations of terms. In this paper we provide a fine-grained, System F-like type system for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Pablo Arrighi , Alejandro Diaz-Caro

The Functional Machine Calculus (FMC), recently introduced by the authors, is a generalization of the lambda-calculus which may faithfully encode the effects of higher-order mutable store, I/O and probabilistic/non-deterministic input.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Chris Barrett , Willem Heijltjes , Guy McCusker

The framework of Light Logics has been extensively studied to control the complexity of higher-order functional programs. We propose an extension of this framework to multithreaded programs with side effects, focusing on the case of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-09-27 Antoine Madet