TY  - JOUR
A1  - Giannini, Paola
A1  - Richter, Tim
A1  - Servetto, Marco
A1  - Zucca, Elena
T1  - Tracing sharing in an imperative pure calculus
JF  - Science of computer programming
N2  - We introduce a type and effect system, for an imperative object calculus, which infers sharing possibly introduced by the evaluation of an expression, represented as an equivalence relation among its free variables. This direct representation of sharing effects at the syntactic level allows us to express in a natural way, and to generalize, widely-used notions in literature, notably uniqueness and borrowing. Moreover, the calculus is pure in the sense that reduction is defined on language terms only, since they directly encode store. The advantage of this non-standard execution model with respect to a behaviorally equivalent standard model using a global auxiliary structure is that reachability relations among references are partly encoded by scoping. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW  - Imperative calculi
KW  - Sharing
KW  - Type and effect systems
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2018.11.007
SN  - 0167-6423
SN  - 1872-7964
VL  - 172
SP  - 180
EP  - 202
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -