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occurrence typing: a standalone construct

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occurrencetyping1 CONSTRUCTOccurrence typingTOBIN-HOCHSTADT · PROGRAMMING

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a typing discipline that refines the type of a variable in each branch according to the runtime type tests that guard it.

In programming languages, occurrence typing refers to a typing discipline that refines the type of a variable in each branch according to the runtime type tests that guard it. This meaning comes from Tobin-Hochstadt (2008) in Proceedings of the 35th annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages.[1]

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  1. Tobin-Hochstadt, S., & Felleisen, M. (2008). The design and implementation of typed scheme. Proceedings of the 35th annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages. https://doi.org/10.1145/1328438.1328486

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