Abstract

We introduce the arrow calculus, a metalanguage for manipulating Hughes's arrows with close relations both to Moggi's metalanguage for monads and to Paterson's arrow notation.

Paper

The Arrow Calculus. Sam Lindley, Philip Wadler, and Jeremy Yallop. Journal of Functional Programming, January 2010.

Tech report

The Arrow Calculus, Sam Lindley, Philip Wadler, and Jeremy Yallop. Tech report, 2008.

Related

Idioms are oblivious, arrows are meticulous, monads are promiscuous. Sam Lindley, Philip Wadler, and Jeremy Yallop. In the proceedings of MSFP 2008. ENTCS.