A type system for hybrid intensional-imperative programming support in GIPSY

  • Authors:
  • Serguei A. Mokhov;Joey Paquet;Xin Tong

  • Affiliations:
  • Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  • Venue:
  • C3S2E '09 Proceedings of the 2nd Canadian Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We describe a type system for a platform called the General Intensional Programming System (GIPSY), designed to support intensional programming languages built upon intensional logic and their imperative counter-parts for the intensional execution model. In GIPSY, the type system glues the static and dynamic typing between intensional and imperative languages in its compiler and runtime environments to support the intensional evaluation of expressions written in various dialects of the intensional programming language Lucid. The intensionality makes expressions to explicitly take into the account a multidimensional context of evaluation with the context being a first-class value that serves a number of applications that need the notion of context to proceed. We describe and discuss the properties of such a type system as well as particularities of the design and implementation of it.