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A nonstandard standardization theorem 一个非标准的标准化定理

Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages Pub Date : 2014-01-08 DOI: 10.1145/2535838.2535886

Beniamino Accattoli, E. Bonelli, D. Kesner, Carlos Lombardi

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引用次数: 58

Game semantics for interface middleweight Java 游戏语义的接口中等重量的Java

Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages Pub Date : 2014-01-08 DOI: 10.1145/2535838.2535880

A. Murawski, N. Tzevelekos

引用次数: 11

Bias-variance tradeoffs in program analysis 程序分析中的偏差-方差权衡

Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages Pub Date : 2014-01-08 DOI: 10.1145/2535838.2535853

Rahul Sharma, A. Nori, A. Aiken

引用次数: 29

Combining proofs and programs in a dependently typed language 用独立类型语言组合证明和程序

Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages Pub Date : 2014-01-08 DOI: 10.1145/2535838.2535883

Chris Casinghino, Vilhelm Sjöberg, Stephanie Weirich

引用次数: 71

A trusted mechanised JavaScript specification 一个可信的机械化JavaScript规范

Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages Pub Date : 2014-01-08 DOI: 10.1145/2535838.2535876

Martin Bodin, A. Charguéraud, Daniele Filaretti, Philippa Gardner, S. Maffeis, Daiva Naudziuniene, Alan Schmitt, Gareth Smith

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引用次数: 98

Counter-factual typing for debugging type errors 用于调试类型错误的反事实输入

Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages Pub Date : 2014-01-08 DOI: 10.1145/2535838.2535863

Sheng Chen, Martin Erwig

{"title":"Counter-factual typing for debugging type errors","authors":"Sheng Chen, Martin Erwig","doi":"10.1145/2535838.2535863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2535838.2535863","url":null,"abstract":"Changing a program in response to a type error plays an important part in modern software development. However, the generation of good type error messages remains a problem for highly expressive type systems. Existing approaches often suffer from a lack of precision in locating errors and proposing remedies. Specifically, they either fail to locate the source of the type error consistently, or they report too many potential error locations. Moreover, the change suggestions offered are often incorrect. This makes the debugging process tedious and ineffective. We present an approach to the problem of type debugging that is based on generating and filtering a comprehensive set of type-change suggestions. Specifically, we generate all (program-structure-preserving) type changes that can possibly fix the type error. These suggestions will be ranked and presented to the programmer in an iterative fashion. In some cases we also produce suggestions to change the program. In most situations, this strategy delivers the correct change suggestions quickly, and at the same time never misses any rare suggestions. The computation of the potentially huge set of type-change suggestions is efficient since it is based on a variational type inference algorithm that type checks a program with variations only once, efficiently reusing type information for shared parts. We have evaluated our method and compared it with previous approaches. Based on a large set of examples drawn from the literature, we have found that our method outperforms other approaches and provides a viable alternative.","PeriodicalId":20683,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90193668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 65

A sound and complete abstraction for reasoning about parallel prefix sums 关于并行前缀和推理的一个健全和完整的抽象

Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages Pub Date : 2014-01-08 DOI: 10.1145/2535838.2535882

Nathan Chong, A. Donaldson, J. Ketema

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引用次数: 29

Consistency analysis of decision-making programs 决策程序的一致性分析

Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages Pub Date : 2014-01-08 DOI: 10.1145/2535838.2535858

Swarat Chaudhuri, Azadeh Farzan, Zachary Kincaid

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引用次数: 5

Toward general diagnosis of static errors 对静态误差的一般诊断

Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages Pub Date : 2014-01-08 DOI: 10.1145/2535838.2535870

Danfeng Zhang, A. Myers

{"title":"Toward general diagnosis of static errors","authors":"Danfeng Zhang, A. Myers","doi":"10.1145/2535838.2535870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2535838.2535870","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce a general way to locate programmer mistakes that are detected by static analyses such as type checking. The program analysis is expressed in a constraint language in which mistakes result in unsatisfiable constraints. Given an unsatisfiable system of constraints, both satisfiable and unsatisfiable constraints are analyzed, to identify the program expressions most likely to be the cause of unsatisfiability. The likelihood of different error explanations is evaluated under the assumption that the programmer's code is mostly correct, so the simplest explanations are chosen, following Bayesian principles. For analyses that rely on programmer-stated assumptions, the diagnosis also identifies assumptions likely to have been omitted. The new error diagnosis approach has been implemented for two very different program analyses: type inference in OCaml and information flow checking in Jif. The effectiveness of the approach is evaluated using previously collected programs containing errors. The results show that when compared to existing compilers and other tools, the general technique identifies the location of programmer errors significantly more accurately.","PeriodicalId":20683,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78973918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 53

Profiling for laziness 懒惰剖析

Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages Pub Date : 2014-01-08 DOI: 10.1145/2535838.2535887

Stephen Chang, M. Felleisen

引用次数: 8