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Programming Language Theory: Difference between revisions
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===Typed Functional Programming=== | ===Typed Functional Programming=== | ||
Two | Two agenda were proposed for adding types to the λ-calculus: | ||
* Church suggested explicit type annotations on all terms (simply-typed λ-calculus (λ<sub>→</sub>), "simple" due to single type constructor →) | * Church suggested explicit type annotations on all terms (simply-typed λ-calculus (λ<sub>→</sub>), "simple" due to single type constructor →) | ||
* Curry suggested inferred types (now implemented via techniques such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindley-Milner_type_inference Hindley-Milner]) | * Curry suggested inferred types (now implemented via techniques such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindley-Milner_type_inference Hindley-Milner]) | ||
