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Lilac: a functional programming language based on linear logic

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Ian Mackie
Ian Mackie
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Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK (E-mail: im@doc.ic.ac.uk)
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We take Abramsky's term assignment for Intuitionistic Linear Logic (the linear term calculus) as the basis of a functional programming language. This is a language where the programmer must embed explicitly the resource and control information of an algorithm. We give a type reconstruction algorithm for our language in the style of Milner's W algorithm, together with a description of the implementation and examples of use.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , October 1994 , pp. 395 - 433
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