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ICFP 2018
Sun 23 - Sat 29 September 2018 St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Wed 26 Sep 2018 11:37 - 12:00 at Stifel Theatre - Semantics Chair(s): Sam Lindley

It is a straightforward exercise to write a program to “add” two bijections—resulting in a bijection between two sum types, which runs the first bijection on elements from the left summand and the second bijection on the right. It is much less obvious how to “subtract” one bijection from another. This problem has been studied in the context of combinatorics, with several computational principles known for producing the ``difference'' of two bijections. We consider the problem from a computational and algebraic perspective, showing how to construct such bijections at a high level, avoiding pointwise reasoning or being forced to construct the forward and backward directions separately—without sacrificing performance.

Wed 26 Sep

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10:30 - 12:00
SemanticsResearch Papers at Stifel Theatre
Chair(s): Sam Lindley University of Edinburgh, UK
10:30
22m
Talk
Partially-Static Data as Free Extension of Algebras
Research Papers
Jeremy Yallop University of Cambridge, UK, Tamara von Glehn University of Cambridge, Ohad Kammar University of Oxford
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
10:52
22m
Talk
Relational Algebra by Way of AdjunctionsDistinguished Paper
Research Papers
Jeremy Gibbons Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Fritz Henglein Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU), Ralf Hinze Radboud University Nijmegen, Nicolas Wu University of Bristol, UK
DOI
11:15
22m
Talk
Strict and Lazy Semantics for Effects: Layering Monads and Comonads
Research Papers
Andrew K. Hirsch Cornell University, Ross Tate Cornell University
DOI
11:37
22m
Talk
What's the Difference? A Functional Pearl on Subtracting Bijections
Research Papers
Brent Yorgey Hendrix College, Kenneth Foner
DOI