Questions tagged [polymorphisms]
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How exactly do we define parametric polymorphism?
My naive distinction between parametric polymorphism and ad-hoc polymorphism, is that:
In parametric polymorphism, the type is given as a variable: (pseudocode)
Function f: <.Type T> T $\to$...
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Which languages, if any, implemented parametric polymorphism before ML?
In particular, was there any kind of implementation at the time Christopher Strachey wrote Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages?
In that work, Strachey lists Ad Hoc and Parametric ...
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Relationship between Higher Kinded Polymorphism, type inference, and Currying
On Hacker News there is an interesting exchange about the async\await RFC for Rust.
The author of the proposal withoutboats is responding to a comment about the ...
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How to implement polymorphism in a turing complete environment?
I'm currently programming in an unnamed turing complete language which has support for pointers, primitive data types, structures, closures, and garbage collection, among other things.
I'm trying to ...
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Is subtype polymorphism a kind of ad hoc polymorphism?
"Ad-hoc polymorphism is obtained when a function works, or appears to work, on several different types (which may not exhibit a common structure) and may behave in unrelated ways for each type." – ...
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What's the advantage of “value restriction” over its alternatives?
What is the motivation to pick "value restriction" over other candidates?
Examples of alternatives:
Enclosing pureness into the function type, for example:
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Higher-ranked polymorphism without explicit application or subtyping?
So, I'm familiar with two main strategies of having higher-ranked polymorphism in a language:
System-F style polymorphism, where functions are explicitly typed, and instantiation happens explicitly ...
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Can String be a subtype of Character in a programming language?
Could a programming language be designed so that there is an inheritance relationship between string and character (both of ...
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how type checking fails?
I was doing a type checking example in system f sub on paper to understand how it works.
according to Pierce's book Types and Programming Languages, numbers and their types are following in system f ...
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Can a $k$-ary relation have polymorphisms of arity greater than $k$?
To quote Hubie Chen's A Rendezvous of Logic, Complexity, and Algebra (2009) on constraint satisfaction and complexity,
An operation $f : D^m \to D$ is a polymorphism of a relation $R \subseteq D^k$
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