IA014 Advanced Functional Programming

Lecture IV - Polymorphism and Type Inference

Lecture dates

19. 3. 2018 (parametric polymorphism, system HM, type inference), 26. 3. 2018 (system F and beyond)

L. Damas and R. Milner: Principal type-schemes for functional programs [PDF]
- The original paper describing the type inference algorithm W
E. Marquart: Hindley-Milner Type Inference [PDF]
- Easily accessible write-up on the type inference algorithm, by a student at TUM.
L. Cardelli, P. Wegner: On Understanding Types, Data Abstraction, and Polymorphism [ACM DL] (accessible from MU)
Wikipedia page on Hindley-Milner type system

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https://is.muni.cz/el/1433/jaro2018/IA014/um/04-HMpoly.pdf

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