Static Type Inference for the Q language using Constraint Logic Programming

Authors Zsolt Zombori, János Csorba, Péter Szeredi



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Zsolt Zombori
János Csorba
Péter Szeredi

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Zsolt Zombori, János Csorba, and Péter Szeredi. Static Type Inference for the Q language using Constraint Logic Programming. In Technical Communications of the 28th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP'12). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 17, pp. 119-129, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2012)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICLP.2012.119

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We describe an application of Prolog: a type inference tool for the Q functional language. Q is a terse vector processing language, a descendant of APL, which is getting more and more popular, especially in financial applications. Q is a dynamically typed language, much like Prolog. Extending Q with static typing improves both the readability of programs and programmer productivity, as type errors are discovered by the tool at compile time, rather than through debugging the program execution. We map the task of type inference onto a constraint satisfaction problem and use constraint logic programming, in particular the Constraint Handling Rules extension of Prolog. We determine the possible type values for each program expression and detect inconsistencies. As most built-in function names of Q are overloaded, i.e. their meaning depends on the argument types, a quite complex system of constraints had to be implemented.
Keywords
  • logic programming
  • types
  • static type checking
  • CSP
  • CHR
  • Q language

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