A formalisation of a dependently typed language as an inductive-recursive family

  • Authors:
  • Nils Anders Danielsson

  • Affiliations:
  • Chalmers University of Technology

  • Venue:
  • TYPES'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Types for proofs and programs
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

It is demonstrated how a dependently typed lambda calculus (a logical framework) can be formalised inside a language with inductiverecursive families. The formalisation does not use raw terms; the welltyped terms are defined directly. It is hence impossible to create ill-typed terms. As an example of programming with strong invariants, and to show that the formalisation is usable, normalisation is proved. Moreover, this proof seems to be the first formal account of normalisation by evaluation for a dependently typed language.