On the expressive power of user-defined effects: effect handlers, monadic reflection, delimited control
- Submitting institution
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Heriot-Watt University
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 41275458
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1145/3110257
- Title of journal
- Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
- Article number
- 13
- First page
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- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- ICFP
- ISSN
- 2475-1421
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
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- Citation count
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Originality: First rigorous study of relative expressive power of three foundational approaches to user-defined effects (delimited continuations, monads, effect handlers). Develops novel denotational methods to prove non-existence of expressiveness results. Significance: Elucidates subtlety of expressiveness results and their sensitivity to combination with seemingly unrelated features. Journal version (JFP 2019). Extended by Piróg et al. (FSCD 2019). Follow-up work: implementing effect handlers (FSCD 2018, JFP 2020); improving asymptotic complexity with effects handlers (ICFP 2020). Rigour: Proofs mechanised in the Abella proof assistant. ICFP is the world-leading conference on functional languages. Acceptance rate (1996--2014): 31%.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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