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Syntactic control of interference

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Reynolds, John C.·1978·Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages - POPL '78
DOI 10.1145/512760.512766
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In programming languages which permit both assignment and procedures, distinct identifiers can represent data structures which share storage or procedures with interfering side effects. In addition to being a direct source of programming errors, this phenomenon, which we call interference can impact type structure and parallelism. We show how to eliminate these difficulties by imposing syntactic restrictions, without prohibiting the kind of constructive interference which occurs with higher-order procedures or SIMULA classes. The basic idea is to prohibit interference between identifiers, but to permit interference among components of collections named by single identifiers.

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Authors
Reynolds, J. C.
Venue
Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages - POPL '78
Publisher
ACM Press
Published
1978
Pages
39-46
DOI
10.1145/512760.512766
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200
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1.55
Type
conference paper
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en
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Reynolds, J. C. (1978). Syntactic control of interference. Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages - POPL '78. https://doi.org/10.1145/512760.512766

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