Adding Equations to System F Types

  • Neelakantan Krishnaswami ,
  • Nick Benton

Proceedings of the 22nd European Symposium on Programming (ESOP 2012) |

Published by Springer Verlag

We present an extension of System F with types for termlevel equations. This internalization of the rich equational theory of the polymorphic lambda calculus yields an expressive core language, suitable for formalizing features such as Haskell’s rewriting rules mechanism or Extended ML signatures.