Polymorphic environment calculus and its type-inference algorithm

Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 239-278

  Nishizaki, Shin Ya ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; FUNCTIONS; THEOREM PROVING;

LAMBDA CALCULUS; POLYMORPHIC ENVIRONMENT CALCULUS; PRINCIPAL TYPING THEOREM; TYPE INFERENCE ALGORITHM;

DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS);

EID: 0034268991     PISSN: 13883690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010010314528     Document Type: Article

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