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Understanding the "operational" reading of typing judgements in PFPL by Robert Harper, Chapter 4 Statics
I'm reading Practical Foundations for Programming Languages by Robert Harper and am confused by the exercises in Chapter 4, "Statics", where he discusses a (monomorphic) type system.
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Type-checking Python vs Typescript
mypy is very slow, pyright is fast but not quick enough in a large codebase, and tsc gives an immediate intellisense and type errors.
I do not know whether it is because Python has more complex type ...
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What are some options for integrating subtyping with Damas-Hindley-Milner inference?
Type inference in a Damas-Hindley-Milner type system with subtyping is known to be undecidable in general.
What makes it so difficult? What options are there to get around undecidability which could ...
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