Polymorphic Metaprogramming with Memory Management -- An Adjoint Analysis of Metaprogramming

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Autori principali: Jang, Junyoung, Pientka, Brigitte
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author Jang, Junyoung
Pientka, Brigitte
author_facet Jang, Junyoung
Pientka, Brigitte
contents We describe Elevator, a unifying polymorphic foundation for metaprogramming with memory management based on adjoint modalities. In this setting, we distinguish between multiple memory regions using modes where each mode has a specific set of structural properties. This allows us not only to capture linear (i.e. garbage-free) memory regions and (ordinary) intuitionistic (i.e. garbage-collected or persistent) memory regions, but also to capture accessibility between the memory regions using a preorder between modes. This preorder gives us the power to describe monadic and comonadic programming. As a consequence, it extends the existing logical view of metaprogramming in two directions: first, it ensures that code generation can be done efficiently by controlling memory accesses; second, it allows us to provide resource guarantees about the generated code (i.e. code that is for example garbage-free). We present the static and dynamic semantics of Elevator. In particular, we prove the substructurality of variable references and type safety of the language. We also establish mode safety, which guarantees that the evaluation of a term does not access a value in an inaccessible memory.
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spellingShingle Polymorphic Metaprogramming with Memory Management -- An Adjoint Analysis of Metaprogramming
Jang, Junyoung
Pientka, Brigitte
Programming Languages
Logic in Computer Science
We describe Elevator, a unifying polymorphic foundation for metaprogramming with memory management based on adjoint modalities. In this setting, we distinguish between multiple memory regions using modes where each mode has a specific set of structural properties. This allows us not only to capture linear (i.e. garbage-free) memory regions and (ordinary) intuitionistic (i.e. garbage-collected or persistent) memory regions, but also to capture accessibility between the memory regions using a preorder between modes. This preorder gives us the power to describe monadic and comonadic programming. As a consequence, it extends the existing logical view of metaprogramming in two directions: first, it ensures that code generation can be done efficiently by controlling memory accesses; second, it allows us to provide resource guarantees about the generated code (i.e. code that is for example garbage-free). We present the static and dynamic semantics of Elevator. In particular, we prove the substructurality of variable references and type safety of the language. We also establish mode safety, which guarantees that the evaluation of a term does not access a value in an inaccessible memory.
title Polymorphic Metaprogramming with Memory Management -- An Adjoint Analysis of Metaprogramming
topic Programming Languages
Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00752