NDLI: Settable and non-interfering signal functions for FRP:how a first-order switch is more than enough

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Winograd-Cort, Daniel Hudak, Paul
Abstract	Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) provides a method for programming continuous, reactive systems by utilizing signal functions that, abstractly, transform continuous input signals into continuous output signals. These signals may also be streams of events, and indeed, by allowing signal functions themselves to be the values carried by these events (in essence, signals of signal functions), one can conveniently make discrete changes in program behavior by "switching" into and out of these signal functions. This higher-order notion of switching is common among many FRP systems, in particular those based on arrows, such as Yampa. Although convenient, the power of switching is often an overkill and can pose problems for certain types of program optimization (such as causal commutative arrows [14]), as it causes the structure of the program to change dynamically at run-time. Without a notion of just-in-time compilation or related idea, which itself is beset with problems, such optimizations are not possible at compile time. This paper introduces two new ideas that obviate, in a predominance of cases, the need for switching. The first is a non-interference law for arrows with choice that allows an arrowized FRP program to dynamically alter its own structure (within statically limited bounds) as well as abandon unused streams. The other idea is a notion of a settable signal function that allows a signal function to capture its present state and later be restarted from some previous state. With these two features, canonical uses of higher-order switchers can be replaced with a suitable first-order design, thus enabling a broader range of static optimizations.
Starting Page	213
Ending Page	225
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03621340 15581160
DOI	10.1145/2692915.2628140
Journal	ACM SIGPLAN Notices (SIGP)
Volume Number	49
Issue Number	9
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1983-05-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Functional reactive programming Switch Arrows Arrowchoice
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Software

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