[TYPES] I'm searching for a survey on type system feature combinations

[Jeremy Siek]

Sam maintains a bibliography of papers related to gradual typing:

https://github.com/samth/gradual-typing-bib

Cheers,
Jeremy


On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 7:46 PM, <hgualandi at inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

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> Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned the dynamic typing bit. That opened up a
> huge can of worms... Right now the part I am having more trouble with the
> "static type system" part than the "interacting between static and dynamic
> code" part.
>
> I appreciate the links on gradual typing and the discussion though. I
> thought that my bibliography on that was very comprehensive but this list
> is still proving me wrong :)
>
> > This is a mistaken assumption (as Michael indicated in his response).
>
> I agree, although I think part of it is just me not communicating
> precisely.
>
> > The theoretical difficulty of adding type annotations to untyped
> languages
> > is that untyped languages promote multi-typed thinking and the
> programming
> > idioms that develop show this. So your type system has to accommodate
> these grown
> > idioms, otherwise programmers reject this.
>
> Exactly! However what is idiomatic depends a lot on the original language.
> For example, Typed Lua devotes a big chunk of their type system to model
> incremental table definition via multiple assignment statements. In Typed
> Racket this isn't an issue because untyped Racket already encourages you
> to declare the field names in your data types. (OTOH, Typed Racket needs
> to model the numeric tower and variadic map and filter, which are not
> common in Lua)
>
> What confuses me is that in an attempt to tame these dynamic language
> idioms type system designers end up using almost every type system
> technology under the sun. Its very overwhelming and I naively wished that
> there might be something to help me organize the tools that all those
> languages use.
>