- Dependent ML
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Dependent ML is an experimental functional programming language proposed by Hongwei Xi and Frank Pfenning. Dependent ML extends ML by a restricted notion of dependent types: types may be dependent on static indices of type Nat. Dependent ML employs a constraint theorem prover to decide a strong equational theory over the index expressions.
By restricting the generality of full dependent types type checking remains decidable. Type inference remains undecidable. Some computer scientists do not consider DML's types to be dependent as there is still a phase distinction between compilation and execution of the program.[1]
Dependent ML has been superseded by ATS and is no longer under active development.
Contents
See also
- Indexed type
References
- ^ Aspinall & Hofmann 2005. p. 75.
Further reading
- Xi, Hongwei (March 2007). "Dependent ML: An Approach to Practical Programming with Dependent Types". Journal of Functional Programming 17 (2). http://www.cs.bu.edu/~hwxi/academic/papers/JFPdml.pdf.
- David Aspinall and Martin Hofmann (2005). "Dependent Types". In Pierce, Benjamin C. (ed.) Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages. MIT Press.
External links
- The home page of DML
Categories:- Programming language topic stubs
- ML programming language family
- Declarative programming languages
- Functional languages
- Dependently typed languages
- Programming languages created in the 1990s
- Discontinued programming languages
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