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Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.185
Persistent Amortised Analysis, Operationally

Authors: Anton Lorenzen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 374, 53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2026)

Abstract
Amortised analysis is a technique for proving a combined time bound for a batch of operations on a data structure, even if some of those operations are expensive. But the traditional method of amortised analysis yields incorrect time bounds when the data structure is used persistently. Persistence allows operations to be performed on previous versions of the data structure, which prevents us from amortising expensive restructuring work. In his seminal book, Chris Okasaki showed how to extend amortised analysis to persistent usage. His method works by extending the data structure with thunks and performing the analysis with debits rather than credits. His argument, that credits are unsound for analysing persistent usage, has become folklore. In this paper, we provide a new perspective on the role of debits in Okasaki’s work. First, we set up an operational semantics of call-by-value lambda calculus with thunks, and show formally that traditional amortised analysis does not work in a persistent setting. Then we show that, contrary to the folklore, amortised analysis in a persistent setting can be performed purely in terms of credits without using debits at all. Finally, we provide a formal semantics for Okasaki’s original debit-based approach.
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Anton Lorenzen. Persistent Amortised Analysis, Operationally. In 53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 374, pp. 185:1-185:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{lorenzen:LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.185,
  author =	{Lorenzen, Anton},
  title =	{{Persistent Amortised Analysis, Operationally}},
  booktitle =	{53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2026)},
  pages =	{185:1--185:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-428-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{374},
  editor =	{Bhattacharya, Sayan and Nanongkai, Danupon and Benedikt, Michael and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.185},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-265736},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.185},
  annote =	{Keywords: Lazy Data Structures, Amortised Analysis}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.4
Substructural Parametricity

Authors: C. B. Aberlé, Karl Crary, Chris Martens, and Frank Pfenning

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 337, 10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025)

Abstract
Ordered, linear, and other substructural type systems allow us to expose deep properties of programs at the syntactic level of types. In this paper, we develop a family of unary logical relations that allow us to prove consequences of parametricity for a range of substructural type systems. A key idea is to parameterize the relation by an algebra, which we exemplify with a monoid and commutative monoid to interpret ordered and linear type systems, respectively. We prove the fundamental theorem of logical relations and apply it to deduce extensional properties of inhabitants of certain types. Examples include demonstrating that the ordered types for list append and reversal are inhabited by exactly one function, as are types of some tree traversals. Similarly, the linear type of the identity function on lists is inhabited only by permutations of the input. Our most advanced example shows that the ordered type of the list fold function is inhabited only by the fold function.
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C. B. Aberlé, Karl Crary, Chris Martens, and Frank Pfenning. Substructural Parametricity. In 10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 337, pp. 4:1-4:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{aberle_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.4,
  author =	{Aberl\'{e}, C. B. and Crary, Karl and Martens, Chris and Pfenning, Frank},
  title =	{{Substructural Parametricity}},
  booktitle =	{10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-374-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{337},
  editor =	{Fern\'{a}ndez, Maribel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-236193},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Substructural type systems, logical relations, ordered logic}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.6
Don't Panic! Better, Fewer, Syntax Errors for LR Parsers

Authors: Lukas Diekmann and Laurence Tratt

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 166, 34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020)

Abstract
Syntax errors are generally easy to fix for humans, but not for parsers in general nor LR parsers in particular. Traditional "panic mode" error recovery, though easy to implement and applicable to any grammar, often leads to a cascading chain of errors that drown out the original. More advanced error recovery techniques suffer less from this problem but have seen little practical use because their typical performance was seen as poor, their worst case unbounded, and the repairs they reported arbitrary. In this paper we introduce the CPCT+ algorithm, and an implementation of that algorithm, that address these issues. First, CPCT+ reports the complete set of minimum cost repair sequences for a given location, allowing programmers to select the one that best fits their intention. Second, on a corpus of 200,000 real-world syntactically invalid Java programs, CPCT+ is able to repair 98.37%±0.017% of files within a timeout of 0.5s. Finally, CPCT+ uses the complete set of minimum cost repair sequences to reduce the cascading error problem, where incorrect error recovery causes further spurious syntax errors to be identified. Across the test corpus, CPCT+ reports 435,812±473 error locations to the user, reducing the cascading error problem substantially relative to the 981,628±0 error locations reported by panic mode.
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Lukas Diekmann and Laurence Tratt. Don't Panic! Better, Fewer, Syntax Errors for LR Parsers. In 34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 166, pp. 6:1-6:32, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{diekmann_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.6,
  author =	{Diekmann, Lukas and Tratt, Laurence},
  title =	{{Don't Panic! Better, Fewer, Syntax Errors for LR Parsers}},
  booktitle =	{34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020)},
  pages =	{6:1--6:32},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-154-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{166},
  editor =	{Hirschfeld, Robert and Pape, Tobias},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.6},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-131630},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.6},
  annote =	{Keywords: Parsing, error recovery, programming languages}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2019.18
Formal Proof and Analysis of an Incremental Cycle Detection Algorithm

Authors: Armaël Guéneau, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Arthur Charguéraud, and François Pottier

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 141, 10th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2019)

Abstract
We study a state-of-the-art incremental cycle detection algorithm due to Bender, Fineman, Gilbert, and Tarjan. We propose a simple change that allows the algorithm to be regarded as genuinely online. Then, we exploit Separation Logic with Time Credits to simultaneously verify the correctness and the worst-case amortized asymptotic complexity of the modified algorithm.
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Armaël Guéneau, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Arthur Charguéraud, and François Pottier. Formal Proof and Analysis of an Incremental Cycle Detection Algorithm. In 10th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 141, pp. 18:1-18:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{gueneau_et_al:LIPIcs.ITP.2019.18,
  author =	{Gu\'{e}neau, Arma\"{e}l and Jourdan, Jacques-Henri and Chargu\'{e}raud, Arthur and Pottier, Fran\c{c}ois},
  title =	{{Formal Proof and Analysis of an Incremental Cycle Detection Algorithm}},
  booktitle =	{10th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2019)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-122-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{141},
  editor =	{Harrison, John and O'Leary, John and Tolmach, Andrew},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2019.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-110739},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2019.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: interactive deductive program verification, complexity analysis}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.221
A Few Lessons from the Mezzo Project

Authors: Francois Pottier and Jonathan Protzenko

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 32, 1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015)

Abstract
With Mezzo, we set out to design a new, better programming language. In this modest document, we recount our adventure: what worked, and what did not; the decisions that appear in hindsight to have been good, and the design mistakes that cost us; the things that we are happy with in the end, and the frustrating aspects we wish we had handled better.
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Francois Pottier and Jonathan Protzenko. A Few Lessons from the Mezzo Project. In 1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 32, pp. 221-237, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@InProceedings{pottier_et_al:LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.221,
  author =	{Pottier, Francois and Protzenko, Jonathan},
  title =	{{A Few Lessons from the Mezzo Project}},
  booktitle =	{1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015)},
  pages =	{221--237},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-80-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{32},
  editor =	{Ball, Thomas and Bodík, Rastislav and Krishnamurthi, Shriram and Lerner, Benjamin S. and Morriset, Greg},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.221},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-50281},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.221},
  annote =	{Keywords: static type systems, side effects, aliasing, ownership}
}
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