Behavioural separation with parallel usages
Iaroslav Golovanov, Hans Hüttel, Mathias Jakobsen, Mikkel Klinke Kettunen · 2021
Mungo is an object-oriented language that uses typestates with a behavioural type system to ensure the absence of null-dereferencing. Typestates are usages that specify the admissible sequences of method calls on objects. Previous type systems for Mungo have all had a linearity constraint on objects. We present an extension of these systems, where usage specifications can now include a parallel construct that lets us describe separate local behaviour. A parallel usage describes a separation of the heap, and this allows us to reason about aliasing and to express arbitrary interleaving of local protocols. This also solves the state-space explosion problem for usages. Our extension retains the safety properties of previous type systems for Mungo.