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THEORETICAL PEARL: A simple proof of a folklore theorem about delimited control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2016

DARIUSZ BIERNACKI
Affiliation:
BRICS
Basic Research in Computer Science (www.brics.dk), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation.
, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, IT-parken, Aabogade 34, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark (e-mail: dabi@brics.dk, danvy@brics.dk)
OLIVIER DANVY
Affiliation:
BRICS
Basic Research in Computer Science (www.brics.dk), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation.
, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, IT-parken, Aabogade 34, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark (e-mail: dabi@brics.dk, danvy@brics.dk)
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We formalize and prove the folklore theorem that the static delimited-control operators shift and reset can be simulated in terms of the dynamic delimited-control operators control and prompt. The proof is based on small-step operational semantics.

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Theoretical Pearls
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2005 Cambridge University Press
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