Given this definitions about Types and Type systems :
Types are described by means of a language of type expressions:
Basic or primitive types: Bool, Char, Int, ...
Type variables: a, b, c, ...
Type constructors: → (function), × (tuple), [ ] (list), ...
Rules to build type expressions:
τ ::= Bool | Char | Int | ··· | t | τ → τ | τ × τ | [ τ ] | ···
Types whose type expression contains no type variable are called monomorphic types or just monotypes.
Types whose type expression contains variables are called polytypes or polymorphic types (parametric polymorphism)
A polymorphic type represents an infinite number of monotypes
I'm trying to understand the last definition but i can't. A polymorphic type represents a infinite number of monoytpes, because in his type expression has a type variable ?