Name
Abstract | ||
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Just as some functions have uniform behavior over distinct types, other functions have uniform behavior over distinct arities. These variable-arity functions are widely used in scripting languages such as Scheme and Python. Statically typed languages also accommodate mod- est forms of variable-arity functions, but even ML and Haskell, languages with highly expressive type systems, cannot type check the wide variety of variable-arity functions found in untyped functional languages. Con- sequently, their standard libraries contain numerous copies of the same function denition with slightly dierent names. As part of the Typed Scheme project|an on-going eort to create an explicitly typed sister language for PLT Scheme|we have designed and implemented an expressive type system for variable-arity functions. Our practical validation in the context of our extensive code base conrms the usefulness of the enriched type system. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2009 | 10.1007/978-3-642-00590-9_3 | European Symposium on Programming |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
practical variable-arity polymorphism,uniform behavior,plt scheme,enriched type system,different name,distinct arities,distinct type,variable-arity function,typed scheme project,expressive type system,extensive code base,scripting language,type system,functional language,polymorphism | Type system,Programming language,First-class function,Typed lambda calculus,Computer science,Parametric polymorphism,Type inference,Theoretical computer science,Haskell,Strong and weak typing,Abstract type | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
5502 | 0302-9743 | 9 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.62 | 7 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| T. Stephen Strickland | 1 | 81 | 5.35 |
| Sam Tobin-Hochstadt | 2 | 391 | 24.82 |
| Matthias Felleisen | 3 | 3001 | 272.57 |