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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Higher-Order Processes, Functions, and Sessions: A Monadic Integration
Authors : Bernardo Toninho, Luis Caires, Frank Pfenning
Published in: Programming Languages and Systems
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In prior research we have developed a Curry-Howard interpretation of linear sequent calculus as session-typed processes. In this paper we uniformly integrate this computational interpretation in a functional language via a linear contextual monad that isolates session-based concurrency. Monadic values are open process expressions and are first class objects in the language, thus providing a logical foundation for higher-order session typed processes. We illustrate how the combined use of the monad and recursive types allows us to cleanly write a rich variety of concurrent programs, including higher-order programs that communicate processes. We show the standard metatheoretic result of type preservation, as well as a global progress theorem, which to the best of our knowledge, is new in the higher-order session typed setting.