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Algebraic Effects, Ownership, and Borrowing

Introduction Algebraic Effects are a useful abstraction for reasoning about effectful programs by letting us leave the interpretation of these effects to callers. However, most existing literature discusses these in the context of a pure functional language with pervasive sharing of values. What restrictions would we need to introduce algebraic effects into a language with ownership and borrowing - particularly Ante?1 Consider the following program: effect Read a with read : Unit -> a the_value ...

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