Polymorphic type, region and effect inference

@article{Talpin1992PolymorphicTR,
  title={Polymorphic type, region and effect inference},
  author={Jean-Pierre Talpin and Pierre Jouvelot},
  journal={Journal of Functional Programming},
  year={1992},
  volume={2},
  pages={245 - 271}
}
We present a new static system which reconstructs the types, regions and effects of expressions in an implicitly typed functional language that supports imperative operations on reference values. [] Key Method We present a reconstruction algorithm that computes the types and effects of expressions, and assigns regions to reference values. We prove the correctness of the reconstruction algorithm with respect to the static semantics. Finally, we discuss potential applications of our system to automatic stack…
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