Tackling the Awkward Squad

Peyton Jones, S. (2001). Tackling the Awkward Squad: Monadic Input/Output, Concurrency, Exceptions, and Foreign-Language Calls in Haskell. Engineering Theories of Software Construction.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2001

Pages cited

47-96

Link

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/tackling-awkward-squad-monadic-inputoutput-concurrency-exceptions-foreign-language-calls-haskell/

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computer_science

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Primes

• Side Effect
  • Programming languages: a function with a side effect mutates state outside its return value (globals, files, databases, network); functional programming's central discipline is making effects explicit via monads, effect systems, or IO so behavior is predictable from types.

    This sourceCanonical account of making side effects explicit in a pure functional language via the IO monad and effect typing.

Mechanisms

• Thunk or Lazy Promise
  • The discipline is to keep thunks pure where possible and to force eagerly at a known-safe point

    This sourceIn Engineering Theories of Software Construction. IOS Press (2001). Shows how explicitly evaluating a lazy expression in the I/O layer fixes when it is forced and makes an exceptional value catchable at that point.

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