文献类型：会议论文

英文题名：On Higher-order Communication of Erlang

作者：Liu, Nannan[1];Xu, Xian[1]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Comp Sci & Engn, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China

会议论文集：17th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD)

会议日期：MAY 30-JUN 01, 2016

会议地点：Shanghai, PEOPLES R CHINA

语种：英文

外文关键词：Erlang; functional programming; higher-order communication

摘要：Erlang is a concurrent functional programming language and is used to program concurrent, distributed and fault-tolerant systems. In this paper, we study the higher-order communication mechanism of Erlang's functional programming, which is actually achieved by means of sending the references to functions in the current implementation. We propose an improved design. In this design, we realize purely higher-order communication, i.e., strict program-passing. Moreover, we realize automatic determination of module dependency and simplification of communicating anonymous function, i.e., only sending the definition of anonymous function instead of the entire module. Finally, experiments are designed to test the implementation.