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ICFP 2014: Hindley-Milner Elaboration in Applicative Style (Functional Pearl) - Francois Pottier

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Programming languagesLanguage design and type systemsCompilers and interpretersFunctional programming

François Pottier presents a functional pearl on implementing Hindley-Milner type inference using an applicative style.

International Conference on Functional Programming 2014. Gothenburg, Sweden.

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I recognize the author Mitchell Wand, I read his paper about hygienic macros. This type inference paper is much older though. For me I will be contrasting this paper against some of more recent ways to look at type inference, such as link to this video