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A type system is introduced for a generic Object Oriented programming language in order to infer resource upper bounds. A sound andcomplete characterization of the set of polynomial time computable functions is obtained. As a consequence,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Emmanuel Hainry , Romain Péchoux

We introduce a new two-sided type system for verifying the correctness and incorrectness of functional programs with atoms and pattern matching. A key idea in the work is that types should range over sets of normal forms, rather than sets…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Celia Mengyue Li , Sophie Pull , Steven Ramsay

The expression problem describes a fundamental tradeoff between two types of extensibility: extending a type with new operations, such as by pattern matching on an algebraic data type in functional programming, and extending a type with new…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Bohdan Liesnikov , David Binder , Tim Süberkrüb

A long-standing shortcoming of statically typed functional languages is that type checking does not rule out pattern-matching failures (run-time match exceptions). Refinement types distinguish different values of datatypes; if a program…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Khurram A. Jafery , Jana Dunfield

We present Tores, a core language for encoding metatheoretic proofs. The novel features we introduce are well-founded Mendler-style (co)recursion over indexed data types and a form of recursion over objects in the index language to build…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Rohan Jacob-Rao , Brigitte Pientka , David Thibodeau

We introduce two-sided type systems, which are sequent calculi for typing formulas. Two-sided type systems allow for hypothetical reasoning over the typing of compound program expressions, and the refutation of typing formulas. By…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Steven Ramsay , Charlie Walpole

We present a type system that combines, in a controlled way, first-order polymorphism with intersectiontypes, union types, and subtyping, and prove its safety. We then define a type reconstruction algorithm that issound and terminating.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Giuseppe Castagna , Mickaël Laurent , Kim Nguyen

Scala's type system unifies ML modules, object-oriented, and functional programming. The Dependent Object Types (DOT) family of calculi has been proposed as a new foundation for Scala and similar languages. Unfortunately, it is not clear…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Tiark Rompf , Nada Amin

This work introduces the novel concept of kind refinement, which we develop in the context of an explicitly polymorphic ML-like language with type-level computation. Just as type refinements embed rich specifications by means of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Luís Caires , Bernardo Toninho

Harnessing the power of dependently typed languages can be difficult. Programmers must manually construct proofs to produce well-typed programs, which is not an easy task. In particular, migrating code to these languages is challenging.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Joseph Eremondi , Ronald Garcia , Éric Tanter

Refinement type checkers are a powerful way to reason about functional programs. For example, one can prove properties of a slow, specification implementation, porting the proofs to an optimized implementation that behaves the same. Without…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Niki Vazou , Michael Greenberg

The notion of subtyping has gained an important role both in theoretical and applicative domains: in lambda and concurrent calculi as well as in programming languages. The soundness and the completeness, together referred to as the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini , Silvia Ghilezan , Svetlana Jakšić , Jovanka Pantović , Nobuko Yoshida

The Damas-Hindley-Milner (ML) type system owes its success to principality, the property that every well-typed expression has a unique most general type. This makes inference predictable and efficient. Unfortunately, many extensions of ML…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Alistair O'Brien , Didier Rémy , Gabriel Scherer

We study a type checking algorithm that is able to type check a nontrivial subclass of functional programs that use features such as higher-rank, impredicative and second-order types. The only place the algorithm requires type annotation is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Peng Fu

A coverage type generalizes refinement types found in many functional languages with support for must-style underapproximate reasoning. Property-based testing frameworks are one particularly useful domain where such capabilities are useful…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhe Zhou , Benjamin Delaware , Suresh Jagannathan

We develop semantics and syntax for bicategorical type theory. Bicategorical type theory features contexts, types, terms, and directed reductions between terms. This type theory is naturally interpreted in a class of structured…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Benedikt Ahrens , Paige Randall North , Niels van der Weide

Test input generators are an important part of property-based testing (PBT) frameworks, and a key expectation is that they be capable of producing all acceptable elements that satisfy both the function's input type and the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zhe Zhou , Ashish Mishra , Benjamin Delaware , Suresh Jagannathan

This paper proposes bimorphic recursion, which is restricted polymorphic recursion such that every recursive call in the body of a function definition has the same type. Bimorphic recursion allows us to assign two different types to a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Makoto Tatsuta , Ferruccio Damiani

A class of models is presented, in the form of continuation monads polymorphic for first-order individuals, that is sound and complete for minimal intuitionistic predicate logic. The proofs of soundness and completeness are constructive and…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Danko Ilik

We demonstrate that the checkable/synthesisable split in bidirectional typechecking coincides with existing dualities in polarised System L, also known as polarised $\mu\tilde{\mu}$-calculus. Specifically, positive terms and negative…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zanzi Mihejevs , Jules Hedges