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A Quantitative Understanding of Pattern Matching

Authors: Sandra Alves, Delia Kesner, and Daniel Ventura

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 175, 25th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2019)


Abstract
This paper shows that the recent approach to quantitative typing systems for programming languages can be extended to pattern matching features. Indeed, we define two resource-aware type systems, named U and E, for a λ-calculus equipped with pairs for both patterns and terms. Our typing systems borrow some basic ideas from [Antonio Bucciarelli et al., 2015], which characterises (head) normalisation in a qualitative way, in the sense that typability and normalisation coincide. But, in contrast to [Antonio Bucciarelli et al., 2015], our systems also provide quantitative information about the dynamics of the calculus. Indeed, system U provides upper bounds for the length of (head) normalisation sequences plus the size of their corresponding normal forms, while system E, which can be seen as a refinement of system U, produces exact bounds for each of them. This is achieved by means of a non-idempotent intersection type system equipped with different technical tools. First of all, we use product types to type pairs instead of the disjoint unions in [Antonio Bucciarelli et al., 2015], which turn out to be an essential quantitative tool because they remove the confusion between "being a pair" and "being duplicable". Secondly, typing sequents in system E are decorated with tuples of integers, which provide quantitative information about normalisation sequences, notably time (cf. length) and space (cf. size). Moreover, the time resource information is remarkably refined, because it discriminates between different kinds of reduction steps performed during evaluation, so that beta, substitution and matching steps are counted separately. Another key tool of system E is that the type system distinguishes between consuming (contributing to time) and persistent (contributing to space) constructors.

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Sandra Alves, Delia Kesner, and Daniel Ventura. A Quantitative Understanding of Pattern Matching. In 25th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 175, pp. 3:1-3:36, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)


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@InProceedings{alves_et_al:LIPIcs.TYPES.2019.3,
  author =	{Alves, Sandra and Kesner, Delia and Ventura, Daniel},
  title =	{{A Quantitative Understanding of Pattern Matching}},
  booktitle =	{25th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2019)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:36},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-158-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{175},
  editor =	{Bezem, Marc and Mahboubi, Assia},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2019.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-130672},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2019.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Intersection Types, Pattern Matching, Exact Bounds}
}
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