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A Syntax-Directed Type System

Here we are interested in finding a completion for a standard program . We will do so by deriving a constraint system from the type system shown above where we combine the different rules for the two-level variants of a construct. This combined type system must be syntax-directed (i.e., only one rule is applicable to each construct) to be suitable for type reconstruction. Therefore we have to incorporate applications of [WEAK] and [LIFT] into the appropriate rules. For example, the different rules for (fixed-arity) abstraction are combined with [WEAK] to (using FV (E) to denote the free variables of E) the rule [ABS-COMB] in Fig. 12.

  
Figure 12: Combined abstraction rules



Matt Hurlbut
1998-07-15