ICFP 2024
Mon 2 - Sat 7 September 2024 Milan, Italy
Tue 3 Sep 2024 16:42 - 17:00 at Green 1-2-3 - Logical Foundations Chair(s): Kenji Maillard

Parametricity states that polymorphic functions behave the same regardless of how they are instantiated. When developing polymorphic programs, Wadler’s free theorems can serve as free specifications, which can turn otherwise partial specifications into total ones, and can make otherwise realizable specifications unrealizable. This is of particular interest to the field of program synthesis, where the unrealizability of a specification can be used to prune the search space. In this paper, we focus on the interaction between parametricity, input-output examples, and sketches. Unfortunately, free theorems introduce universally quantified functions that make automated reasoning difficult. Container morphisms provide an alternative representation for polymorphic functions that captures parametricity in a more manageable way. By using a translation to the container setting, we show how reasoning about the realizability of polymorphic programs with input-output examples can be automated.

Tue 3 Sep

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15:30 - 17:00
Logical FoundationsICFP Papers and Events / JFP First Papers at Green 1-2-3
Chair(s): Kenji Maillard Inria
15:30
18m
Talk
Grokking the Sequent Calculus (Functional Pearl)
ICFP Papers and Events
David Binder University of Tübingen, Marco Tzschentke Universität Tübingen, Marius Müller University of Tübingen, Klaus Ostermann University of Tübingen
DOI
15:48
18m
Talk
Call-by-Unboxed-Value
ICFP Papers and Events
Paul Downen University of Massachusetts at Lowell
DOI
16:06
18m
Talk
A correct-by-construction conversion from lambda calculus to combinatory logic (JFP Functional Pearls)JFP First Paper
JFP First Papers
Wouter Swierstra Utrecht University, Netherlands
DOI
16:24
18m
Talk
On the Operational Theory of the CPS-Calculus: Towards a Theoretical Foundation for IRs
ICFP Papers and Events
Paulo Torrens University of Kent, Dominic Orchard University of Kent; University of Cambridge, Cristiano Vasconcellos Santa Catarina State University
DOI Pre-print
16:42
18m
Talk
Example-Based Reasoning about the Realizability of Polymorphic ProgramsDistinguished Paper
ICFP Papers and Events
Niek Mulleners Utrecht University, Johan Jeuring Utrecht University, Bastiaan Heeren Open Universiteit
DOI Pre-print