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Extensional equality preservation and verified generic programming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2021

NICOLA BOTTA Open the ORCID record for NICOLA BOTTA [Opens in a new window] ,
NURIA BREDE Open the ORCID record for NURIA BREDE [Opens in a new window] ,
PATRIK JANSSON Open the ORCID record for PATRIK JANSSON [Opens in a new window]  and
TIM RICHTER
NICOLA BOTTA
Affiliation:
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden (e-mail: botta@pik-potsdam.de)
NURIA BREDE
Affiliation:
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany (e-mail: nubrede@pik-potsdam.de)
PATRIK JANSSON
Affiliation:
Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden (e-mail: patrikj@chalmers.se)
TIM RICHTER
Affiliation:
Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany (e-mail: tim.richter@uni-potsdam.de)
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In verified generic programming, one cannot exploit the structure of concrete data types but has to rely on well chosen sets of specifications or abstract data types (ADTs). Functors and monads are at the core of many applications of functional programming. This raises the question of what useful ADTs for verified functors and monads could look like. The functorial map of many important monads preserves extensional equality. For instance, if $$f,g \, : \, A \, \to \, B$$ are extensionally equal, that is, $$\forall x \in A$$ , $$f \, x = g \, x$$ , then $$map \, f \, : \, List \, A \to List \, B$$ and $$map \, g$$ are also extensionally equal. This suggests that preservation of extensional equality could be a useful principle in verified generic programming. We explore this possibility with a minimalist approach: we deal with (the lack of) extensional equality in Martin-Löf’s intensional type theories without extending the theories or using full-fledged setoids. Perhaps surprisingly, this minimal approach turns out to be extremely useful. It allows one to derive simple generic proofs of monadic laws but also verified, generic results in dynamical systems and control theory. In turn, these results avoid tedious code duplication and ad-hoc proofs. Thus, our work is a contribution toward pragmatic, verified generic programming.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 31 , 2021 , e24
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