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Backtracking with cut via a distributive law and left-zero monoids*

  • MACIEJ PIRÓG (a1) and SAM STATON (a2)
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We employ the framework of algebraic effects to augment the list monad with the pruning cut operator known from Prolog. We give two descriptions of the resulting monad: as the monad of free left-zero monoids, and as a composition via a distributive law of the list monad and the ‘unary idempotent operation’ monad. The scope delimiter of cut arises as a handler.

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Research supported by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and EPSRC Grant EP/N007387/1

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Journal of Functional Programming
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  • MACIEJ PIRÓG (a1) and SAM STATON (a2)
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