From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7395BC88 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:59:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j17HxKvK018976 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:59:22 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.200] (ppp212-197.lns2.syd3.internode.on.net [203.122.212.197]) by smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j17Hx0p9060410; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 04:29:00 +1030 (CST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The boon of static type checking From: skaller Reply-To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Cc: Brian Hurt , Jon , caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: <1107795520.13571.118.camel@pelican.wigram> References: <1107773824.654.43.camel@localhost> <1107795520.13571.118.camel@pelican.wigram> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1107799139.13571.153.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 08 Feb 2005 04:59:00 +1100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4207AC78.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 citeseer:01 glebe:01 psu:98 061:98 nsw:01 cps:01 checking:01 snail:02 2037:02 purely:02 functional:02 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 03:58, skaller wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 21:57, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > > > > While the single-assignment aspect of SSA could be considered > > "functional", representing control flow using blocks and branches can't. > > Yeah it can, it has been proven SSA is equivalent to > a purely functional representation. Branches are done with CPS. > Sorry I can't find the paper: the paper was actually written > to explain *why* SSA is easy to analyse. Actually, here is the paper: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/appel98ssa.html -- John Skaller, mailto:skaller@users.sf.net voice: 061-2-9660-0850, snail: PO BOX 401 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia Checkout the Felix programming language http://felix.sf.net