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Date: | 2005-06-29 (04:34) |
From: | Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@m...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Caml type rules |
From: Swaroop Sridhar <swaroop.sridhar@gmail.com> > Is there a document that contains all of the type-inference rules of > Ocaml? If so, I would appreciate a reference. No document contains all the rules. (It would be soon obsolete, due to the speed of changes :-) But most of the type system is accounted for in papers and technical reports. The following list may not be 100% accurate, nor complete, but it should give you most of the type system: Core language = HM type inference + algebraic datatypes: Any good textbook on ML. For the module system: Applicative functors and fully transparent higher-order modules. Xavier Leroy, POPL'95. For objects and classes: Objective ML: An effective object-oriented extension to ML. Didier Remy and Jerome Vouillon, POPL'97. For polymorphic variants and object typing: Simple Type Inference for Structural Polymorphism Jacques Garrigue, FOOL'2002. For the typing of imperative features: Relaxing the value restriction. Jacques Garrigue, FLOPS'04. You can also find various papers on more specific aspects on developpers' home pages. Note however that some experimental features lack a detailed presentation. For instance, recursive modules seem to be in this category. Hope this helps, Jacques Garrigue