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Equivalence in functional languages with effects

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Ian Mason  and
Carolyn Talcott
Ian Mason
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2095, USA
Carolyn Talcott
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2095, USA
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Traditionally the view has been that direct expression of control and store mechanisms and clear mathematical semantics are incompatible requirements. This paper shows that adding objects with memory to the call-by-value lambda calculus results in a language with a rich equational theory, satisfying many of the usual laws. Combined with other recent work, this provides evidence that expressive, mathematically clean programming languages are indeed possible.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , July 1991 , pp. 287 - 327
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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