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Operational interpretations of an extension of Fω with control operators

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Robert Harper  and
Mark Lillibridge
Robert Harper
Affiliation:
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Mark Lillibridge
Affiliation:
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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We study the operational semantics of an extension of Girard's System Fω with two control operators: an abort operation that abandons the current control context, and a callcc operation that captures the current control context. Two classes of operational semantics are considered, each with a call-by-value and a call-by-name variant, differing in their treatment of polymorphic abstraction and instantiation. Under the standard semantics, polymorphic abstractions are values and polymorphic instantiation is a significant computation step; under the ML-like semantics evaluation proceeds beneath polymorphic abstractions and polymorphic instantiation is computationally insignificant. Compositional, type-preserving continuation-passing style (cps) transformation algorithms are given for the standard semantics, resulting in terms on which all four evaluation strategies coincide. This has as a corollary the soundness and termination of well-typed programs under the standard evaluation strategies. In contrast, such results are obtained for the call-by-value ML-like strategy only for a restricted sub-language in which constructor abstractions are limited to values. The ML-like call-by-name semantics is indistinguishable from the standard call-by-name semantics when attention is limited to complete programs.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , May 1996 , pp. 393 - 418
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