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Call-by-Name Gradual Type Theory

Authors: Max S. New and Daniel R. Licata

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 108, 3rd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2018)


Abstract
We present gradual type theory, a logic and type theory for call-by-name gradual typing. We define the central constructions of gradual typing (the dynamic type, type casts and type error) in a novel way, by universal properties relative to new judgments for gradual type and term dynamism. These dynamism judgements build on prior work in blame calculi and on the "gradual guarantee" theorem of gradual typing. Combined with the ordinary extensionality (eta) principles that type theory provides, we show that most of the standard operational behavior of casts is uniquely determined by the gradual guarantee. This provides a semantic justification for the definitions of casts, and shows that non-standard definitions of casts must violate these principles. Our type theory is the internal language of a certain class of preorder categories called equipments. We give a general construction of an equipment interpreting gradual type theory from a 2-category representing non-gradual types and programs, which is a semantic analogue of the interpretation of gradual typing using contracts, and use it to build some concrete domain-theoretic models of gradual typing.

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Max S. New and Daniel R. Licata. Call-by-Name Gradual Type Theory. In 3rd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 108, pp. 24:1-24:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)


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@InProceedings{new_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2018.24,
  author =	{New, Max S. and Licata, Daniel R.},
  title =	{{Call-by-Name Gradual Type Theory}},
  booktitle =	{3rd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2018)},
  pages =	{24:1--24:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-077-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{108},
  editor =	{Kirchner, H\'{e}l\`{e}ne},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2018.24},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-91944},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2018.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: Gradual Typing, Type Systems, Program Logics, Category Theory, Denotational Semantics}
}
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