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Giving Haskell a promotion

, , , , , and . Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Types in language design and implementation - TLDI '12, page 53--66. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2012)
DOI: 10.1145/2103786.2103795

Abstract

Static type systems strive to be richly expressive while still being simple enough for programmers to use. We describe an experiment that enriches Haskell's kind system with two features promoted from its type system: data types and polymorphism. The new system has a very good power-to-weight ratio: it offers a significant improvement in expressiveness, but, by re-using concepts that programmers are already familiar with, the system is easy to understand and implement.

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