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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

Type-and-effect systems are a widely-used approach to program verification, verifying the result of a computation using types, and the behavior using effects. This paper extends an effect system for verifying temporal, value-dependent…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Taro Sekiyama , Hiroshi Unno

Effect systems are lightweight extensions to type systems that can verify a wide range of important properties with modest developer burden. But our general understanding of effect systems is limited primarily to systems where the order of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Colin S. Gordon

Type-and-effect systems help the programmer to organize data and computational effects in a program. While for traditional type systems expressive variants with sophisticated inference algorithms have been developed and widely used in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Patrycja Balik , Szymon Jędras , Piotr Polesiuk

We study the algebraic effects and handlers as a way to support decision-making abstractions in functional programs, whereas a user can ask a learning algorithm to resolve choices without implementing the underlying selection mechanism, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Ugo Dal Lago , Francesco Gavazzo , Alexis Ghyselen

Representations are essential to mathematically model phenomena, but there are many options available. While each of those options provides useful properties with which to solve problems related to the phenomena in study, comparing results…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Luke Bayzid , Alexandre Madeira , Manuel A. Martins

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

Effect systems are used to statically reason about the effects an expression may have when evaluated. In the literature, such effects include various behaviours as diverse as memory accesses and exception throwing. Here we present CallE, an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Isaac Oscar Gariano , James Noble , Marco Servetto

Algebraic effects and handlers are a powerful abstraction mechanism to represent and implement control effects. In this work, we study their extension with parametric polymorphism that allows abstracting not only expressions but also…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Taro Sekiyama , Atsushi Igarashi

Programming benefits from a clear separation between pure, mathematical computation and impure, effectful interaction with the world. Existing approaches to enforce this separation include monads, type-and-effect systems, and capability…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yuyan Bao , Tiark Rompf

We explore type systems and programming abstractions for the safe use of resources. In particular, we investigate how to use types to modularly specify and check when programs are allowed to use their resources, e.g., when programming a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Danel Ahman

Graded monads refine traditional monads using effect annotations in order to describe quantitatively the computational effects that a program can generate. They have been successfully applied to a variety of formal systems for reasoning…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Satoshi Kura , Marco Gaboardi , Taro Sekiyama , Hiroshi Unno

As popularity of algebraic effects and handlers increases, so does a demand for their efficient execution. Eff, an ML-like language with native support for handlers, has a subtyping-based effect system on which an effect-aware optimizing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-06-10 Georgios Karachalias , Matija Pretnar , Amr Hany Saleh , Stien Vanderhallen , Tom Schrijvers

Type systems designed for information-flow control commonly use a program-counter label to track the sensitivity of the context and rule out data leakage arising from effectful computation in a sensitive context. Currently, type-system…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Andrew K. Hirsch , Ethan Cecchetti

We present a novel task that measures how people generalize objects' causal powers based on observing a single (Experiment 1) or a few (Experiment 2) causal interactions between object pairs. We propose a computational modeling framework…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Bonan Zhao , Christopher G. Lucas , Neil R. Bramley

In functional programming, monads are supposed to encapsulate computations, effectfully producing the final result, but keeping to themselves the means of acquiring it. For various reasons, we sometimes want to reveal the internals of a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-02-15 Maciej Piróg , Jeremy Gibbons

Effect systems are lightweight extensions to type systems that can verify a wide range of important properties with modest developer burden. But our general understanding of effect systems is limited primarily to systems where the order of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Colin S. Gordon

Information about the powers and abilities of acting entities is used to coordinate their actions in societies, either physical or digital. Yet, the commonsensical meaning of an acting entity being deemed able to do something is still…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Nicolas Troquard

Questions in causality, control, and reinforcement learning go beyond the classical machine learning task of prediction under i.i.d. observations. Instead, these fields consider the problem of learning how to actively perturb a system to…

Implementing LLM-integrated scripts introduces challenges in modularity and performance, as scripts are often coupled to specific LLM implementations and fail to exploit parallelization opportunities. This paper proposes using composable…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Di Wang