Overloading and Bounded Polymorphism
Permanent Link(s)
Collections
Author
Smith, Geoffrey S.
Abstract
We present an extension of the Hindley/Milner polymorphic type system that deals with overloading. The system uses a kind of bounded polymorphic type to describe the nonuniform polymorphism resulting from the use of overloaded identifiers. We consider the type inference problem for our system and show that it is undecidable. Restrictions are proposed to cope with this limitation.
Date Issued
1989-11
Publisher
Cornell University
Keywords
Previously Published as
http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.cs/TR89-1054
Type
technical report