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First-class Polymorphism with Type Inference Export

In Conference Record of POPL~'97: The 24th {ACM} {SIGPLAN}-{SIGACT} Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (JanuaryMay--JanuaryJuly 1997), pp. 483-496.

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Languages like ML and Haskell encourage the view of values as first-class entities that can be passed as arguments or results of functions, or stored as components of data structures. The same languages o#er parametric polymorphism, which allows the use of values that behave uniformly over a range of di#erent types. But the combination of these features is not supported--- polymorphic values are not first-class. This restriction is sometimes attributed to the dependence of such languages on...


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