Trevor Jim
What are principal typings and what are they good
for?
Tech. memo. MIT/LCS/TM-532, MIT, 1995
We demonstrate the pragmatic value of the
principal typing property, a property
distinct from ML's principal type property, by
studying a type system with principal typings. The
type system is based on rank 2 intersection types
and is closely related to ML. Its principal
typing property provides elegant support for
separate compilation, including “smartest
recompilation'' and incremental type inference, and
for accurate type error messages. Moreover, it
motivates a new rule for typing recursive
definitions that can type some interesting examples
of polymorphic recursion.
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