학술논문

An ML-style record calculus with extensible records.
Document Type
Proceedings Paper
Author
Alves, Sandra (P-PORTS-CS) AMS Author Profile; Ramos, Miguel (P-PORTS-CS) AMS Author Profile
Source
Proceedings---37th Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (20210101), 1-17.
Subject
68 Computer science -- 68N Software
  68N18 Functional programming and lambda calculus
Language
English
Abstract
Summary: ``In this work, we develop a polymorphic record calculus with extensible records. Extensible records are records that can have new fields added to them, or preexisting fields removed from them. We also develop a static type system for this calculus and a sound and complete type inference algorithm. Most ML-style polymorphic record calculi that support extensible records are based on row variables. We present an alternative construction based on the polymorphic record calculus developed by Ohori. Ohori based his polymorphic record calculus on the idea of kind restrictions. This allowed him to express polymorphic operations on records such as field selection and modification. With the addition of extensible types, we were able to extend Ohori's original calculus with other powerful operations on records such as field addition and removal.''

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