A duality between exceptions and states (Q2909735)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6078318
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6078318 |
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A duality between exceptions and states (English)
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6 September 2012
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computational effects
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exception
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state
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duality
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The short note proves a categorical duality between the handling of exceptions and the structure of states in an imperative language, once the control is dissociated from the elementary operation that recovers from exceptions. Both are defined through commutativity of certain diagrams which are formally dual in a categorical sense.
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