Abstract
Notions of guardedness serve to delineate admissible recursive definitions in various settings in a compositional manner. In recent work, we have introduced an axiomatic notion of guardedness in symmetric monoidal categories, which serves as a unifying framework for various examples from program semantics, process algebra, and beyond. In the present paper, we propose a generic metalanguage for guarded iteration based on combining this notion with the fine-grain call-by-value paradigm, which we intend as a unifying programming language for guarded and unguarded iteration in the presence of computational effects. We give a generic (categorical) semantics of this language over a suitable class of strong monads supporting guarded iteration, and show it to be in touch with the standard operational behaviour of iteration by giving a concrete big-step operational semantics for a certain specific instance of the metalanguage and establishing adequacy for this case.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Theoretical Aspects of Computing – ICTAC 2018 - 15th International Colloquium, 2018, Proceedings |
| Editors | Bernd Fischer, Tarmo Uustalu, Tarmo Uustalu |
| Publisher | Springer Verlag |
| Pages | 191-210 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783030025076 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
| Event | 15th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2018 - Stellenbosch, South Africa Duration: 16 Oct 2018 → 19 Oct 2018 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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| Volume | 11187 LNCS |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
| Conference | 15th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2018 |
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| Country/Territory | South Africa |
| City | Stellenbosch |
| Period | 16/10/18 → 19/10/18 |
Bibliographical note
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- General Computer Science