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Hindley-Milner type inference: a standalone construct

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a type system with let-bound polymorphism whose most general types can be inferred automatically without annotations.

In programming languages, Hindley-Milner type inference refers to a type system with let-bound polymorphism whose most general types can be inferred automatically without annotations. This meaning comes from Milner (1978) in Journal of Computer and System Sciences.[1]

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References

Milner, R. (1978). A theory of type polymorphism in programming. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 17(3), 348-375. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0000(78)90014-4

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