From: Jim Pryor Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 07:58:18 +0000 (-0400) Subject: upcoming topics: tweaked X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=876ece1c1c5c426553f26d19f8962543ad2f366d upcoming topics: tweaked Signed-off-by: Jim Pryor --- diff --git a/upcoming_topics.mdwn b/upcoming_topics.mdwn index 09b32869..2faa4ed1 100644 --- a/upcoming_topics.mdwn +++ b/upcoming_topics.mdwn @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ This is very sketchy at this point, but it should give a sense of our intended s 1. What difference imperativity makes 2. Side-effects in a purely functional setting, via monads 3. [Phil/ling application]Semantics for DPL, using state monad + Groenendijk, Stokhof, and Veltman, "Coreference and modality" + in Shalom Lappin, ed. Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory (Blackwell, 1996) 4. Passing by reference 5. [Phil/ling application] Fine and Pryor on "coordinated contents" (see, e.g., [Hyper-Evaluativity](http://www.jimpryor.net/research/papers/Hyper-Evaluativity.txt)) @@ -15,8 +17,8 @@ This is very sketchy at this point, but it should give a sense of our intended s 0. [Phil/ling application] Partee on whether NPs should be uniformly interpreted as generalized quantifiers, or instead "lifted" when necessary. Lifting = a CPS transform. 1. Using CPS to handle abortive computations (think: presupposition failure, expressives) -2. Using CPS to do other handy things, e.g., coroutines -3. Making evaluation order explicit with continuations (could also be done earlier, but I think will be helpful to do after we've encountered mutation) +2. Using CPS to do other handy things, e.g., coroutines (cooperative threading) +3. Making evaluation order explicit with continuations 4. Delimited (quantifier scope) vs undelimited (expressives, presupposition) continuations 5. [Phil/ling application] [Barker/Shan on donkey anaphora](http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.1.1) 6. The continuation monad @@ -25,7 +27,7 @@ This is very sketchy at this point, but it should give a sense of our intended s 1. Basics of parallel programming: semaphores/mutexes 2. Contrasting "preemptive" parallelism to "cooperative" parallelism (coroutines, above) -3. Linear logic +3. Linear logic, "logical resource management" 4. [Phil/ling application] Barker on free choice, imperatives