[TYPES] analogy between Felleisen's syntactic theories of state and Hindley-Milner constraints

[Matthias Felleisen]

On Apr 23, 2008, at 8:12 AM, Francois Pottier wrote:

> I don't know who is the earliest inventor of this idea.

Bob and I agreed to have co-discovered the concept in the week  
between Christmas and New Year 1987. (It was buried in my  
dissertation but it wasn't good enough.) I am also confident that Ian  
Mason and Carolyn Talcott had figured out a similar idea by 1988, if  
not earlier. -- I don't know when Milner did his scope stuff. --  
Matthias