Witnessing side-effects

  • Authors:
  • Tachio Terauchi;Alex Aiken

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Berkeley;Stanford University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the tenth ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present a new approach to the old problem of adding side effects to purely functional languages. Our idea is to extend the language with "witnesses," which is based on an arguably more pragmatic motivation than past approaches. We give a semantic condition for correctness and prove it is sufficient. We also give a static checking algorithm that makes use of a network flow property equivalent to the semantic condition.