Re:Linear types can change the world (1990) [pdf]
by jw- on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @01:35PM
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I think SSA is related to CPS, but I'm not sure of the correspondence with Linearity. I think the key difference (but I'm not sure), is that SSA only asserts that a variable is assigned once, but might be consumed multiple times. Linearity says that things must be consumed exactly once. For instance, I think:
y <- x + 1
z <- x + 2
is a legal SSA expression, but it is not a legal linear expression because x appears twice.
y <- x + 1
z <- x + 2
is a legal SSA expression, but it is not a legal linear expression because x appears twice.
(Corrections welcome)