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Liberating effects with rows and handlers

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Hillerström, Daniel Lindley, Sam
Abstract	Algebraic effects and effect handlers provide a modular abstraction for effectful programming. They support user-defined effects, as in Haskell, in conjunction with direct-style effectful programming, as in ML. They also present a structured interface to programming with delimited continuations. In order to be modular, it is necessary for an effect type system to support extensible effects. Row polymorphism is a natural abstraction for modelling extensibility at the level of types. In this paper we argue that the abstraction required to implement extensible effects and their handlers is exactly row polymorphism. We use the Links functional web programming language as a platform to substantiate this claim. Links is a natural starting point as it uses row polymorphism for polymorphic variants, records, and its built-in effect types. It also has infrastructure for manipulating continuations. Through a small extension to Links we smoothly add support for effect handlers, making essential use of rows in the frontend and first-class continuations in the backend. We demonstrate the usability of our implementation by modelling the mathematical game of Nim as an abstract computation. We interpret this abstract computation in a variety of ways, illustrating how rows and handlers support modularity and smooth composition of effectful computations. We present a core calculus of row-polymorphic effects and handlers based on a variant of A-normal form used in the intermediate representation of Links. We give an operational semantics for the calculus and a novel generalisation of the CEK machine that implements the operational semantics, and prove that the two coincide. .
Starting Page	15
Ending Page	27
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450344357
DOI	10.1145/2976022.2976033
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2016-09-18
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Effect typing Operational semantics Abstract machine semantics Effect handlers Delimited control Algebraic effects
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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