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Levy: a Toy Call-by-Push-Value Language

Andrej Bauer's blog contains the PL Zoo project. In particular, the Levy language, a toy implementation of Paul Levy's CBPV in OCaml.

If you're curious about CBPV, this implementation might be a nice accompaniment to the book, or simply a hands on way to check it out.

It looks like an implementation of CBPV without sum and product types, with complex values, and without effects. I guess a more hands-on way to get to grips with CBPV would be to implement any of these missing features.

The posts are are 3 years old, but I've only just noticed them. The PL Zoo project was briefly mentioned here.

By Ohad Kammar at 2011-07-14 18:57 | Fun | Functional | Implementation | Lambda Calculus | Paradigms | Semantics | Teaching & Learning | Theory | other blogs | 31585 reads

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Too dense? No comments?

Too dense? No comments?

By Ehud Lamm at Thu, 2011-07-28 08:03 | login or register to post comments

The authors of Levy admitted

The authors of Levy admitted they did not understand CBPV at first. How do I know if that is a correct implementation of it?

I got confused trying to match the language with the concepts in the book, that is probably only me.

By Denis Bredelet -jido at Thu, 2011-07-28 15:34 | login or register to post comments

Interesting...

I haven't played with it too much, but it seemed to fit more or less.

Which concepts are you talking about?

By Ohad Kammar at Thu, 2011-07-28 18:12 | login or register to post comments

Intriguing

Regrettably, I haven't had time to dig into this in anything remotely resembling the depth it obviously deserves.

By Paul Snively at Thu, 2011-07-28 17:22 | login or register to post comments