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First-Class Synchronous Operations in Standard ML

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In [Reppy88], we introduced a new language mechanism, first-class synchronous operations, for synchronous message passing. In our approach, synchronous operations are represented by first-class values called events. Events can be combined in various ways, allowing a user to define new synchronization abstractions (e.g., remote procedure call), which have equal status with the built-in operations. This paper describes this mechanism and presents a new implementation of events as part of a coroutine package for Standard ML. The coroutine package is written entirely in SML, using first-class continuations, and provides very light-weight processes. First-class continuations provide a natural way to represent events that closely follows an operational semantics for events.

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1989-12

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Cornell University

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computer science; technical report

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http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.cs/TR89-1068

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