Title
Transforming functional logic programs into monadic functional programs
Abstract
We present a high-level transformation scheme to translate lazy functional logic programs into pure Haskell programs. This transformation is based on a recent proposal to efficiently implement lazy non-deterministic computations in Haskell in a monadic style. We build on this work and define a systematic method to transform lazy functional logic programs into monadic programs with explicit sharing. This results in a transformation scheme which produces high-level and flexible target code. For instance, the target code is parametric w.r.t. the concrete evaluation monad. Thus, different monad instances could, for example, define different search strategies (e.g., depth-first, breadth-first, parallel). We formally describe the basic compilation scheme and some useful extensions.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
WFLP
monadic program,lazy non-deterministic computation,lazy functional logic program,basic compilation scheme,concrete evaluation monad,transformation scheme,different search strategy,flexible target code,different monad instance,high-level transformation scheme,monadic functional program
Field
DocType
Citations 
Programming language,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Parametric statistics,Haskell,Declarative programming,Type constructor,Monad (functional programming),Computation
Conference
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
19
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bernd Braßel118112.47
Sebastian Fischer2745.07
Michael Hanus370745.18
Fabian Reck4453.40