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Fengyun Liu

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Related publications (9)

Celsius: A Model for Safe Initialization of Objects

Martin Odersky, Fengyun Liu, Paolo Giosuè Giarrusso

Accessing uninitialized data during object initialization is a common and subtle programming error. This error is either not prevented by mainstream languages, like in Java, C++, Scala, or it is prevented by greatly restricting initialization patterns, lik ...

2020

A Type-and-Effect System for Object Initialization

Martin Odersky, Fengyun Liu, Ondrej Lhoták, Paolo Giosuè Giarrusso

Every newly created object goes through several initialization states: starting from a state where all fields are uninitialized until all of them are assigned. Any operation on the object during its initialization process, which usually happens in the cons ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Stoic: Towards Disciplined Capabilities

Martin Odersky, Sandro Stucki, Nada Amin, Fengyun Liu, Paolo Giosuè Giarrusso

Capabilities are widely used in the design of software systems to ensure security. A system of capabilities can become a mess in the presence of objects and functions: objects may leak capabilities and functions may capture capabilities. They make reasonin ...

2020

Safe initialization of objects

Fengyun Liu

The inception of object-oriented programming introduces a category of bugs related to object construction: initialization errors. Every newly created object goes through several initialization states: starting from a state where all fields are uninitialize ...

EPFL2020

Safe Initialization of Objects

Martin Odersky, Fengyun Liu, Ondrej Lhoták, Paolo Giosuè Giarrusso

2020

Theory and Practice of Coroutines with Snapshots

Aleksandar Prokopec, Fengyun Liu

While event-driven programming is a widespread model for asynchronous computing, its inherent control flow fragmentation makes event-driven programs notoriously difficult to understand and maintain. Coroutines are a general control flow construct that can ...

2018

Initialization patterns in Dotty

Martin Odersky, Fengyun Liu

Safe object initialization is important to avoid a category of runtime errors in programming languages. In this paper, we provide a case study of the initialization patterns on the Dotty compiler. In particular, we find that calling dynamic-dispatching met ...

2018

Simplicitly: Foundations and Applications of Implicit Function Types

Martin Odersky, Sandro Stucki, Olivier Eric Paul Blanvillain, Heather Christine Klug, Fengyun Liu

Understanding a program entails understanding its context; dependencies, configurations and even implementations are all forms of contexts. Modern programming languages and theorem provers offer an array of constructs to define contexts, implicitly. Scala ...

2017

A generic algorithm for checking exhaustivity of pattern matching

Fengyun Liu

Algebraic data types and pattern matching are key features of functional programming languages. Exhaustivity checking of pattern matching is a safety belt that defends against unmatched exceptions at runtime and boosts type safety. However, the presence of ...

2016