Proceedings of the Eighth ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, ICFP 2003, Uppsala, Sweden, August 25-29, 2003

This volume contains the papers presented at ICFP 2003, the Eighth ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming. The meeting was held on 25-27 August, 2003, in Uppsala, Sweden, as part of PLI 2003, the Colloqium on Principles, Logics, and Implementations of High-Level Programming Languages. The scope of ICFP includes all languages that encourage programming with functions, including both purely applicative and imperative languages, as well as languages that support objects and concurrency. The topics covered range from principles to practice, from foundations to features, and from abstractions to application.Ninety-five papers were submitted in response to the conference's call for papers. Each paper was reviewed by at least three members of the program committee; in many cases these reviewers also solicited external reviews from outside experts. The twenty-four papers collected in this proceedings were selected at a one and a half day meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts; all program-committee members attended the meeting.The paper submission and reviewing process was supported by the EDAS web-management system; I am grateful to Blair MacIntyre for his assistance with this package. Martin Rinard of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science provided the space for the program-committee meeting.