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We give an elementary semantics to an effect system, tracking read and write effects by using relations over a standard extensional semantics for the original language. The semantics establishes the soundness of both the analysis and its use in effect-based program transformations.
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Benton, N., Kennedy, A., Hofmann, M., Beringer, L. (2006). Reading, Writing and Relations. In: Kobayashi, N. (eds) Programming Languages and Systems. APLAS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4279. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11924661_7
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