Result: Backtracking, interleaving, and terminating monad transformers

Title:
Backtracking, interleaving, and terminating monad transformers
Authors:
KISELYOV, Oleg, SHAN, Chung-Chieh, SABRY, Amr, FRIEDMAN, Daniel P
Source:
Proceedings of the Tenth ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP'05), September 26-28, 2005 - Tallinn, EstoniaACM SIGPLAN notices. 40(9):192-203
Publisher Information:
Broadway, NY: ACM, 2005.
Publication Year:
2005
Physical Description:
print, 31 ref
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Subject Terms:
Computer science, Informatique, Sciences exactes et technologie, Exact sciences and technology, Sciences appliquees, Applied sciences, Informatique; automatique theorique; systemes, Computer science; control theory; systems, Informatique théorique, Theoretical computing, Théorie des langages et analyse syntaxique, Language theory and syntactical analysis, Backtracking, Langage programmation, Programming language, Lenguaje programación, Logique monadique, Monadic logic, Lógica monadica, Méthode continuation, Continuation method, Método continuación, PROLOG, Programmation logique, Logical programming, Programación lógica, Technique programmation, Programmation technique, Técnica programación, Programmation monadique, Haskell, Languages continuations, Prolog, control delimiters, logic programming, streams
Document Type:
Conference Conference Paper
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
FNMOC
Harvard University, United States
Indiana University, United States
ISSN:
1523-2867
Access URL:
http://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=search&terms=17157861
Rights:
Copyright 2005 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Computer science; theoretical automation; systems
Accession Number:
edscal.17157861
Database:
PASCAL Archive

Further Information

We design and implement a library for adding backtracking computations to any Haskell monad. Inspired by logic programming, our library provides, in addition to the operations required by the MonadPlus interface, constructs for fair disjunctions, fair conjunctions, conditionals, pruning, and an expressive top-level interface. Implementing these additional constructs is easy in models of backtracking based on streams, but not known to be possible in continuation-based models. We show that all these additional constructs can be generically and monadically realized using a single primitive msplit. We present two implementations of the library: one using success and failure continuations; and the other using control operators for manipulating delimited continuations.