Borrowing from Session Types

Session types provide a formal framework to enforce rich communication protocols, ensuring correctness properties such as type safety and deadlock freedom. However, the traditional API of functional session type systems with first-class channels often leads to problems with modularity and composabil...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings of ACM on programming languages Jg. 9; H. OOPSLA2; S. 3426 - 3453
Hauptverfasser: Saffrich, Hannes, Spaderna, Janek, Thiemann, Peter, Vasconcelos, Vasco T.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY, USA ACM 09.10.2025
Schlagworte:
Concurrent programming languages
Functional languages
Semantics
Software and its engineering
Theory of computation
Type structures
ordered types
Concurrent programming
session types
ISSN:2475-1421, 2475-1421
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Zusammenfassung:Session types provide a formal framework to enforce rich communication protocols, ensuring correctness properties such as type safety and deadlock freedom. However, the traditional API of functional session type systems with first-class channels often leads to problems with modularity and composability. This paper proposes a new, alternative session type API based on borrowing, embodied in the core calculus BGV. The borrowing-based API enables building modular and composable code for session type clients without imposing clutter or undue limitations. Its basis is a novel type system, founded on ordered linear typing, for functional session types with an explicit operation for splitting ownership of channels. We establish the semantics of BGV via a type-preserving translation to PGV, a deadlock-free functional session type calculus. We establish type safety and deadlock freedom for BGV by this translation. We also present an external version of BGV that supports use of borrow notation. We developed an algorithmic version of the type system that includes a mechanized verified translation from the external language to BGV. This part establishes decidable type checking.
ISSN:2475-1421
2475-1421
DOI:10.1145/3763173