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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2024.23

Mirroring Call-By-Need, or Values Acting Silly

Authors: Beniamino Accattoli and Adrienne Lancelot

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 299, 9th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2024)

Abstract

Call-by-need evaluation for the λ-calculus can be seen as merging the best of call-by-name and call-by-value, namely the wise erasing behaviour of the former and the wise duplicating behaviour of the latter. To better understand how duplication and erasure can be combined, we design a degenerated calculus, dubbed call-by-silly, that is symmetric to call-by-need in that it merges the worst of call-by-name and call-by-value, namely silly duplications by-name and silly erasures by-value. We validate the design of the call-by-silly calculus via rewriting properties and multi types. In particular, we mirror the main theorem about call-by-need - that is, its operational equivalence with call-by-name - showing that call-by-silly and call-by-value induce the same contextual equivalence. This fact shows the blindness with respect to efficiency of call-by-value contextual equivalence. We also define a call-by-silly strategy and measure its length via tight multi types. Lastly, we prove that the call-by-silly strategy computes evaluation sequences of maximal length in the calculus.

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Beniamino Accattoli and Adrienne Lancelot. Mirroring Call-By-Need, or Values Acting Silly. In 9th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 299, pp. 23:1-23:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{accattoli_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2024.23,
  author =	{Accattoli, Beniamino and Lancelot, Adrienne},
  title =	{{Mirroring Call-By-Need, or Values Acting Silly}},
  booktitle =	{9th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2024)},
  pages =	{23:1--23:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-323-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{299},
  editor =	{Rehof, Jakob},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2024.23},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-203527},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2024.23},
  annote =	{Keywords: Lambda calculus, intersection types, call-by-value, call-by-need}
}

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Invited Talk

DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2021.1

Duality in Action (Invited Talk)

Authors: Paul Downen and Zena M. Ariola

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 195, 6th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2021)

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The duality between "true" and "false" is a hallmark feature of logic. We show how this duality can be put to use in the theory and practice of programming languages and their implementations, too. Starting from a foundation of constructive logic as dialogues, we illustrate how it describes a symmetric language for computation, and survey several applications of the dualities found therein.

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Paul Downen and Zena M. Ariola. Duality in Action (Invited Talk). In 6th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 195, pp. 1:1-1:32, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{downen_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2021.1,
  author =	{Downen, Paul and Ariola, Zena M.},
  title =	{{Duality in Action}},
  booktitle =	{6th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2021)},
  pages =	{1:1--1:32},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-191-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{195},
  editor =	{Kobayashi, Naoki},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2021.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-142390},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2021.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Duality, Logic, Curry-Howard, Sequent Calculus, Rewriting, Compilation}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2018.21

Beyond Polarity: Towards a Multi-Discipline Intermediate Language with Sharing

Authors: Paul Downen and Zena M. Ariola

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 119, 27th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2018)

Abstract

The study of polarity in computation has revealed that an "ideal" programming language combines both call-by-value and call-by-name evaluation; the two calling conventions are each ideal for half the types in a programming language. But this binary choice leaves out call-by-need which is used in practice to implement lazy-by-default languages like Haskell. We show how the notion of polarity can be extended beyond the value/name dichotomy to include call-by-need by only adding a mechanism for sharing and the extra polarity shifts to connect them, which is enough to compile a Haskell-like functional language with user-defined types.

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Paul Downen and Zena M. Ariola. Beyond Polarity: Towards a Multi-Discipline Intermediate Language with Sharing. In 27th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 119, pp. 21:1-21:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{downen_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2018.21,
  author =	{Downen, Paul and Ariola, Zena M.},
  title =	{{Beyond Polarity: Towards a Multi-Discipline Intermediate Language with Sharing}},
  booktitle =	{27th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2018)},
  pages =	{21:1--21:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-088-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{119},
  editor =	{Ghica, Dan R. and Jung, Achim},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2018.21},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-96886},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2018.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: call-by-need, polarity, call-by-push-value, control}
}

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