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type soundness: a standalone construct

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the guarantee that well-typed programs do not go wrong, often proved syntactically by progress and preservation lemmas.

In programming languages, type soundness refers to the guarantee that well-typed programs do not go wrong, often proved syntactically by progress and preservation lemmas. This meaning comes from Wright (1994) in Information and Computation.[1]

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References

Wright, A. K., & Felleisen, M. (1994). A Syntactic Approach to Type Soundness. Information and Computation, 115(1), 38-94. https://doi.org/10.1006/inco.1994.1093

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