Applicative bisimulations for delimited-control operators

  • Authors:
  • Dariusz Biernacki;Sergueï Lenglet

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wrocław, Poland;University of Wrocław, Poland

  • Venue:
  • FOSSACS'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We develop a behavioral theory for the untyped call-by-value λ-calculus extended with the delimited-control operators shift and reset. For this calculus, we discuss the possible observable behaviors and we define an applicative bisimilarity that characterizes contextual equivalence. We then compare the applicative bisimilarity and the CPS equivalence, a relation on terms often used in studies of control operators. In the process, we illustrate how bisimilarity can be used to prove equivalence of terms with delimited-control effects.