Abstract We present PolyChor $\lambda$ , a language for higher-order functional choreographic programming —an emerging paradigm for concurrent programming. In choreographic programming, programmers write the desired cooperative behaviour of a system of processes and then compile it into an implementation for each process, a translation called endpoint projection . Unlike its predecessor, Chor $\lambda$ , PolyChor $\lambda$ has both type and process polymorphism inspired by System F $_\omega$ . That is, PolyChor $\lambda$ is the first (higher-order) functional choreographic language which gives programmers the ability to write generic choreographies and determine the participants at runtime. This novel combination of features also allows PolyChor $\lambda$ processes to communicate distributed values , leading to a new and intuitive way to write delegation. While some of the functional features of PolyChor $\lambda$ give it a weaker correspondence between the semantics of choreographies and their endpoint-projected concurrent systems than some other choreographic languages, we still get the hallmark end result of choreographic programming: projected programmes are deadlock-free by design.

@article{paperbot2688,
  title = {Alice or Bob?: Process polymorphism in choreographies},
  author = {EVA GRAVERSEN and ANDREW K. HIRSCH and FABRIZIO MONTESI},
  journal = {Journal of Functional Programming},
  volume = {34},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.1017/s0956796823000114}
}