Partially Typed Terms between Church-Style and Curry-Style

  • Authors:
  • Ken-etsu Fujita;Aleksy Schubert

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • TCS '00 Proceedings of the International Conference IFIP on Theoretical Computer Science, Exploring New Frontiers of Theoretical Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We introduce several structures between Church-style and Curry-style based on partially typed terms formalism. In the uniform framework, we study the static properties of the λ-terms between the two styles. It is proved that type checking, typability, and type inference for domain-free λ2 are in general undecidable. A simple instance of the second-order unification problem is reduced to the problem of type inference for domain-free λ2. The typability problem is undecidable even for a predicative fragment of domain-free λ2, called the rank 2 fragment. It is also found that making polymorphic domains free and the use of type-holes [] are independently responsible for the undecidability of the partial polymorphic type reconstruction problem.