Abstract

The Continuation-Passing-Style (CPS) translation gives semantics to control operators such as exception and first-class continuations. By iterating this translation, Danvy and Filinski obtained a CPS hierarchy, and used it to specify a series of control operators, hierarchical (or layered) delimited-control operators.We introduce a call-by-name variant of the CPS hierarchy. While most of the work on delimited-control operators is based on call-by-value calculi, call-by-name delimited-control operators are an active target of recent studies. Our strategy for developing such a hierarchy is to use the results for the call-by-value calculi as much as possible. The key tool is Hatcliff and Danvy's factorization of Plotkin's call-by-name CPS translation into a thunk translation and a call-by-value CPS translation. We show that a call-by-name CPS hierarchy can be obtained by naturally extending the factorization to the calculi with control operators, and then prove several properties for this hierarchy.

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