Title
Effect handlers, evidently
Abstract
Algebraic effect handlers are a powerful way to incorporate effects in a programming language. Sometimes perhaps even _too_ powerful. In this article we define a restriction of general effect handlers with _scoped resumptions_. We argue one can still express all important effects, while improving reasoning about effect handlers. Using the newly gained guarantees, we define a sound and coherent evidence translation for effect handlers, which directly passes the handlers as evidence to each operation. We prove full soundness and coherence of the translation into plain lambda calculus. The evidence in turn enables efficient implementations of effect operations; in particular, we show we can execute tail-resumptive operations _in place_ (without needing to capture the evaluation context), and how we can replace the runtime search for a handler by indexing with a constant offset.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3408981
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Algebraic Effects,Evidence Passing Translation,Handlers
Journal
4
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
ICFP
2475-1421
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5