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the property that polymorphic functions behave uniformly over types, so a function's type alone yields theorems about it.

In programming languages, parametricity refers to the property that polymorphic functions behave uniformly over types, so a function's type alone yields theorems about it. This meaning comes from Wadler (1989) in Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Functional programming languages and computer architecture - FPCA '89.[1]

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  1. Wadler, P. (1989). Theorems for free!. Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Functional programming languages and computer architecture - FPCA '89. https://doi.org/10.1145/99370.99404

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