Automatic detection of the type of an expression in a formal language
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Type inference, sometimes called type reconstruction,[1]: 320 refers to the automatic detection of the type of an expression in a formal language. These include programming languages and mathematical type systems, but also natural languages in some branches of computer science and linguistics.
^Benjamin C. Pierce (2002). Types and Programming Languages. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-16209-8.
Typeinference, sometimes called type reconstruction,: 320 refers to the automatic detection of the type of an expression in a formal language. These...
studied in logic. Induction is inference from particular evidence to a universal conclusion. A third type of inference is sometimes distinguished, notably...
elaborate type system, it gains a more finely grained rule set than basic type checking, but this comes at a price when the typeinferences (and other...
type inference. Though type erasure can be an easy way to define typing over implicitly typed languages (an implicitly typed term is well-typed if and...
of type theories is in specifying how terms may be combined by way of inference rules. Type theories which have functions also have the inference rule...
extended algebraic data types which combine GADTs together with the existential data types and type class constraints. Typeinference in the absence of any...
Frequentist inference is a type of statistical inference based in frequentist probability, which treats “probability” in equivalent terms to “frequency”...
and Sound Generic Java typeinference Archived 29 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine (Martin Odersky, 15 January 2002). C#'s type system is similar to...
approaches to causal inference are broadly applicable across all types of scientific disciplines, and many methods of causal inference that were designed...
variants. A row-polymorphic type system and proof of typeinference was introduced by Mitchell Wand. The row-polymorphic record type defines a list of fields...
the type system simple enough that full typeinference is always possible. As a practical example, OCaml (a descendant or dialect of ML) performs type inference...
modular, functional programming language with compile-time type checking and typeinference. It is popular for writing compilers, for programming language...
logical interpretation by a reasoning engine, facilitating type-inference and rule-inference processes that generate logical abstractions of data. These...
In type theory, a typing rule is an inference rule that describes how a type system assigns a type to a syntactic construction.: 94 These rules may be...
with a dynamic type system, runtime inference of types based on values for internal interpretation marks a common task. As value types may change throughout...
the auto keyword indicates typeinference. The data type for that x will be deduced from its initialization. The return type of a function can also be...
these declarations together with typeinference to enable various optimizations and limited forms of compile time type checks. Standard ML, F#, OCaml,...
intuitionistic type theory, which lets types depend on terms. Such types are called dependent types. These type systems do not have decidable typeinference and...
In philosophy of logic and logic, a rule of inference, inference rule or transformation rule is a logical form consisting of a function which takes premises...
Top and Bot seems to be a natural target for typeinference, allowing the constraints on an omitted type parameter to be captured by a pair of bounds:...
compile-time type membership of the object and its run-time type identity. In contrast, some programming languages use implicit typing (a.k.a. typeinference) where...
(/ˈhæskəl/) is a general-purpose, statically-typed, purely functional programming language with typeinference and lazy evaluation. Designed for teaching...