3 papers
cs.PL2026
Typestate via Revocable Capabilities
Songlin Jia, Craig Liu, Siyuan He +3
Managing stateful resources safely and expressively is a longstanding challenge in programming languages, especially in the presence of aliasing. For example, scope-based construct…
cs.PL2025
Free to Move: Reachability Types with Flow-Sensitive Effects for Safe Deallocation and Ownership Transfer
Haotian Deng, Siyuan He, Songlin Jia +2
We present a flow-sensitive effect system for reachability types that supports explicit memory management, including Rust-style move semantics, in higher-order impure functional la…
cs.PL2025
Complete the Cycle: Reachability Types with Expressive Cyclic References (Extended Version)
Haotian Deng, Siyuan He, Songlin Jia +2
Local reasoning about programs that combine aliasing and mutable state is a longstanding challenge. Existing approaches -- ownership systems, linear and affine types, uniqueness ty…