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A library for polymorphic dynamic typing

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2013

WOUTER SWIERSTRA  and
THOMAS VAN NOORT
WOUTER SWIERSTRA
Affiliation:
Utrecht University, Viale R. Elena, 324, 00185 Rome, Italy
THOMAS VAN NOORT
Affiliation:
Radboud University Nijmegen, Comeniuslaan 4, 6525 HP Nijmegen, Netherlands (e-mail: w.s.swierstra@uu.nl and thomas@cs.ru.nl)
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This paper presents a library for programming with polymorphic dynamic types in the dependently typed programming language Agda. The resulting library allows dynamically typed values with a polymorphic type to be instantiated to a less general (possibly monomorphic) type without compromising type soundness.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , May 2013 , pp. 229 - 248
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