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The Functional Machine Calculus II: Semantics

Authors Chris Barrett, Willem Heijltjes, Guy McCusker

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Chris Barrett
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, UK
Willem Heijltjes
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, UK
Guy McCusker
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, UK

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  • Heijltjes, Willem: EPSRC Grant EP/R029121/1 Typed lambda-calculi with sharing and unsharing.

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Pierre Clairambault, Ugo Dal Lago, Anupam Das, Giulio Guerrieri, Jim Laird, Paul Levy, Simon Peyton Jones, John Power, Alex Simpson, Vincent van Oostrom.

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Chris Barrett, Willem Heijltjes, and Guy McCusker. The Functional Machine Calculus II: Semantics. In 31st EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 252, pp. 10:1-10:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2023.10

Abstract

The Functional Machine Calculus (FMC), recently introduced by the second author, is a generalization of the lambda-calculus which may faithfully encode the effects of higher-order mutable store, I/O and probabilistic/non-deterministic input. Significantly, it remains confluent and can be simply typed in the presence of these effects.
In this paper, we explore the denotational semantics of the FMC. We have three main contributions: first, we argue that its syntax - in which both effects and lambda-calculus are realised using the same syntactic constructs - is semantically natural, corresponding closely to the structure of a Scott-style domain theoretic semantics. Second, we show that simple types confer strong normalization by extending Gandy’s proof for the lambda-calculus, including a small simplification of the technique. Finally, we show that the typed FMC (without considering the specifics of encoded effects), modulo an appropriate equational theory, is a complete language for Cartesian closed categories.

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  • Theory of computation
Keywords
  • lambda-calculus
  • computational effects
  • denotational semantics
  • strong normalization

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