An Introduction to Dependent Type Theory

  • Authors:
  • Gilles Barthe;Thierry Coquand

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Applied Semantics, International Summer School, APPSEM 2000, Caminha, Portugal, September 9-15, 2000, Advanced Lectures
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Functional programming languages often feature mechanisms that involve complex computations at the level of types. These mechanisms can be analyzed uniformly in the framework of dependent types, in which types may depend on values. The purpose of this chapter is to give some background for such an analysis.We present here precise theorems, that should hopefully help the reader to understand to which extent statements like "introducing dependent types in a programming language implies that type checking is undecidable", are justified.