Questions tagged [type-checking]
Checking that types adhere to the tying rules.
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What is a context mapping in dependent type checking?
I am reading a dissertation about dependent type programming language (Norell, 2007), and had much trouble understanding the definition of context mappings/substitutions as shown in the figure below .
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confused about stlc from Programming Language Foundations
I have two related quetions. I made my way to STLC and Typechecking from Programming Lang Foundations, yet I am more or less mentally stuck at the STLC chapter, hence many things related to it are ...
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Why does an internal term produced by Lean's equation compiler have holes in it?
Section 4.7 of the Lean reference manual (version 3.3) gives an example of a division function defined by well-founded recursion. I used the #print command to ...
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Code obtained from printing a definition from the Lean 3.46 equation compiler does not type check. Why doesn't it, and how can I fix it?
In the example below, the fibonacci function is defined via the Lean equation compiler. However, there seems to be a problem with the code that is obtained from running ...
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How do I convince the Lean 4 type checker that addition is commutative?
In order to get acquainted with Lean and programming with dependent types I am trying to implement basic operations for a Vector datatype defined following the ...
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Does Coq's Module and Functor type-check incrementally?
I am trying to search the following questions online but I failed:
When applying a functor (parametrized module), will the contents inside the functor be re-type-checked?
Will Coq's command ...
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What is bidirectional type checking?
What is bidirectional type checking and why would I want to implement it?
It feels like the name is a bit of a misnomer and the syntactic separation kind of resembles stuff like ANF, call by push ...
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Type Checking Undecidable in Extensional Type Theory
What is the difference between intensional vs extensional type theories and how come the type checking is undecidable for extensional type theory? Also, how does it affect the expressiveness of ...
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In the "Simply Easy!" paper, why is it safe to evaluate types in the empty environment?
The paper in question: An Implementation of a Dependently Typed Lambda Calculus by Andres Löh, Conor McBride and Wouter Swierstra.
I'm wondering whether it's correct in what's it is doing. Precisely ...
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