CoCaml: Functional Programming with Regular Coinductive Types

@article{Jeannin2017CoCamlFP,
  title={CoCaml: Functional Programming with Regular Coinductive Types},
  author={Jean-Baptiste Jeannin and Dexter Kozen and Alexandra Silva},
  journal={Fundam. Informaticae},
  year={2017},
  volume={150},
  pages={347-377}
}
Functional languages offer a high level of abstraction, which results in programs that are elegant and easy to understand. Central to the development of functional programming are inductive and coinductive types and associated programming constructs, such as pattern-matching. Whereas inductive types have a long tradition and are well supported in most languages, coinductive types are subject of more recent research and are less mainstream. We present CoCaml, a functional programming language… 
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