A type is said to be polymorphic if (a) it defines data structures holding values of other types (eg. lists of Booleans, trees of integers); (b) it encompasses ...
A polymorphic type contains type variables that represents a whole family of “similar” types. So we can define a single list-reversal function, and use it at ...
Jun 21, 1988 · Polymorphism in languages comes from the interaction of two contrasting programming language design goals: static typing and reusability. ...
Jan 1, 1986 · The requirements for type checking in polymorphic languages are considered, in the light of recent suggestions by Harland that polymorphism ...
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Coppo. An extented polymorphic type system for applicative languages. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 88, Springer, Berlin (1980), pp. 194-204. View in ...
A function is polymorphic if it may be applied to arguments of different types. In most languages, for example, + is polymorphic because we can use it.
In this paper we discuss Milner's polymorphic typechecking algorithm, which has proved very successful: it is sound, efficient, and supports a very rich and ...
We give type checking rules for a small, explicitly typed functional language à la XML with multi-methods, show that the resulting system has decidable minimal ...
This handout presents the core of the ML polymorphic type system, and two algorithms for the system. 2 The basic ML type system. The core ideas ...
Jan 1, 1987 · Polymorphic means to have many forms. As related to programming languages, it refers to data or programs which have many types, or which ...