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Control Reduction Theories: the Benefit of Structural Substitution

Abstract

The historical design of the call-by-value theory of control relies on the reification of evaluation contexts as regular functions and on the use of ordinary term application for jumping to a continuation. To the contrary, the lambda-C-tp control calculus, developed by the authors, distinguishes between jumps and terms. This alternative calculus, which derives from Parigot's lambda-mu-calculus, works by direct "structural substitution" of evaluation contexts. We review and revisit the legacy theories of control and argue that lambda-C-tp provides an observationally equivalent but smoother theory. In an additional note contributed by Matthias Felleisen, we review the story of the birth of control calculi during the mid to late eighties at Indiana University.
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inria-00177320 , version 1 (07-10-2007)

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Zena Ariola, Hugo Herbelin. Control Reduction Theories: the Benefit of Structural Substitution. Journal of Functional Programming, 2007. ⟨inria-00177320⟩
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