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Assaf J. Kfoury and J. B. Wells
Principality and decidable
type inference for finite-rank intersection types
In Conf. Rec. POPL '99: 26th ACM Symp. Princ. of Prog. Langs., pages 161-174, 1999
Superseded by [28]
Principality of typings is the property that for
each typable term, there is a typing from which all
other typings are obtained via some set of
operations. Type inference is the problem of finding
a typing for a given term, if possible. We define an
intersection type system which has principal typings
and types exactly the strongly normalizable
lambda-terms. More interestingly, every
finite-rank restriction of this system (using
Leivant's first notion of rank) has principal
typings and also has decidable type inference. This
is in contrast to System F where the finite rank
restriction for every finite rank at 3 and above has
neither principal typings nor decidable type
inference. This is also in contrast to earlier
presentations of intersection types where the status
(decidable or undecidable) of these properties is
unknown for the finite-rank restrictions at 3 and
above. Furthermore, the notion of principal typings
for our system involves only one operation,
substitution, rather than several operations (not
all substitution-based) as in earlier presentations
of principality for intersection types (without rank
restrictions). In our system the earlier notion of
expansion is integrated in the form of
expansion variables, which are subject to
substitution as are ordinary variables. A
unification-based type inference algorithm is
presented using a new form of unification,
beta-unification.
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