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Advanced topics in types and programming languages / Benjamin C. Pierce, editor

Published
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]
Copyright Date
©2005
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 574 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Pierce, Benjamin C.
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Contents
Substructural type systems / David Walker -- Dependent types / David Aspinall and Martin Hofmann -- Effect types and region-based memory management / Fritz Henglein, Henning Makholm, and Henning Niss -- Typed assembly language / Greg Morrisett -- Proof-carrying code / George Necula -- Logical relations and a case study in equivalence checking / Karl Crary -- Typed operational reasoning / Andrew Pitts -- Design considerations for ML-style module systems / Robert Harper and Benjamin C. Pierce -- Type definitions / Christopher A. Stone -- The essence of ML type inference / François Pottier and Didier Rémy.
Summary
A thorough and accessible introduction to a range of key ideas in type systems for programming language. The study of type systems for programming languages now touches many areas of computer science, from language design and implementation to software engineering, network security, databases, and analysis of concurrent and distributed systems. This book offers accessible introductions to key ideas in the field, with contributions by experts on each topic. The topics covered include precise type analyses, which extend simple type systems to give them a better grip on the run time behavior of systems; type systems for low-level languages; applications of types to reasoning about computer programs; type theory as a framework for the design of sophisticated module systems; and advanced techniques in ML-style type inference. Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages builds on Benjamin Pierce's Types and Programming Languages (MIT Press, 2002); most of the chapters should be accessible to readers familiar with basic notations and techniques of operational semantics and type systems--the material covered in the first half of the earlier book. Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages can be used in the classroom and as a resource for professionals. Most chapters include exercises, ranging in difficulty from quick comprehension checks to challenging extensions, many with solutions.
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ISBN
9780262281591 (electronic bk.)
0262281597 (electronic bk.)
1423729846 (electronic bk.)
9781423729846 (electronic bk.)
9780262162289
0262162288 (Trade Cloth)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-565) and index.
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