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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.8.2.17
Union Types with Disjoint Switches (Artifact)

Authors: Baber Rehman, Xuejing Huang, Ningning Xie, and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira

Published in: DARTS, Volume 8, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022)

Abstract
This artifact contains the mechanical formalization of the calculi associated with the paper Union Types with Disjoint Switches. All of the metatheory has been formalized in Coq theorem prover. We provide a docker image as well the code archive. The paper studies a union calculus ({λ_{u}}). Primary idea of {λ_{u}} calculus is a type based disjoint switch construct for the elimination of union types. We also study several extensions of the {λ_{u}} calculus including intersection types, distributive subtyping, nominal types, parametric polymorphism and an extension for the empty types.
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Baber Rehman, Xuejing Huang, Ningning Xie, and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira. Union Types with Disjoint Switches (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 17:1-17:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@Article{rehman_et_al:DARTS.8.2.17,
  author =	{Rehman, Baber and Huang, Xuejing and Xie, Ningning and Oliveira, Bruno C. d. S.},
  title =	{{Union Types with Disjoint Switches (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{17:1--17:6},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{8},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{Rehman, Baber and Huang, Xuejing and Xie, Ningning and Oliveira, Bruno C. d. S.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.8.2.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-162150},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.8.2.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: Union types, switch expression, disjointness, intersection types}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.25
Union Types with Disjoint Switches

Authors: Baber Rehman, Xuejing Huang, Ningning Xie, and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 222, 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022)

Abstract
Union types are nowadays a common feature in many modern programming languages. This paper investigates a formulation of union types with an elimination construct that enables case analysis (or switches) on types. The interesting aspect of this construct is that each clause must operate on disjoint types. By using disjoint switches, it is possible to ensure exhaustiveness (i.e. all possible cases are handled), and that none of the cases overlap. In turn, this means that the order of the cases does not matter and that reordering the cases has no impact on the semantics, helping with program understanding and refactoring. While implemented in the Ceylon language, disjoint switches have not been formally studied in the research literature, although a related notion of disjointness has been studied in the context of disjoint intersection types. We study union types with disjoint switches formally and in a language independent way. We first present a simplified calculus, called the union calculus (λ_u), which includes disjoint switches and prove several results, including type soundness and determinism. The notion of disjointness in λ_u is in essence the dual notion of disjointness for intersection types. We then present a more feature-rich formulation of λ_u, which includes intersection types, distributive subtyping and a simple form of nominal types. This extension reveals new challenges. Those challenges require us to depart from the dual notion of disjointness for intersection types, and use a more general formulation of disjointness instead. Among other applications, we show that disjoint switches provide an alternative to certain forms of overloading, and that they enable a simple approach to nullable (or optional) types. All the results about λ_u and its extensions have been formalized in the Coq theorem prover.
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Baber Rehman, Xuejing Huang, Ningning Xie, and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira. Union Types with Disjoint Switches. In 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 222, pp. 25:1-25:31, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{rehman_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.25,
  author =	{Rehman, Baber and Huang, Xuejing and Xie, Ningning and Oliveira, Bruno C. d. S.},
  title =	{{Union Types with Disjoint Switches}},
  booktitle =	{36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022)},
  pages =	{25:1--25:31},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-225-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{222},
  editor =	{Ali, Karim and Vitek, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.25},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-162531},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.25},
  annote =	{Keywords: Union types, switch expression, disjointness, intersection types}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.27
Row and Bounded Polymorphism via Disjoint Polymorphism

Authors: Ningning Xie, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Xuan Bi, and Tom Schrijvers

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 166, 34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020)

Abstract
Polymorphism and subtyping are important features in mainstream OO languages. The most common way to integrate the two is via 𝖥_{< :} style bounded quantification. A closely related mechanism is row polymorphism, which provides an alternative to subtyping, while still enabling many of the same applications. Yet another approach is to have type systems with intersection types and polymorphism. A recent addition to this design space are calculi with disjoint intersection types and disjoint polymorphism. With all these alternatives it is natural to wonder how they are related. This paper provides an answer to this question. We show that disjoint polymorphism can recover forms of both row polymorphism and bounded polymorphism, while retaining key desirable properties, such as type-safety and decidability. Furthermore, we identify the extra power of disjoint polymorphism which enables additional features that cannot be easily encoded in calculi with row polymorphism or bounded quantification alone. Ultimately we expect that our work is useful to inform language designers about the expressive power of those common features, and to simplify implementations and metatheory of feature-rich languages with polymorphism and subtyping.
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Ningning Xie, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Xuan Bi, and Tom Schrijvers. Row and Bounded Polymorphism via Disjoint Polymorphism. In 34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 166, pp. 27:1-27:30, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{xie_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.27,
  author =	{Xie, Ningning and Oliveira, Bruno C. d. S. and Bi, Xuan and Schrijvers, Tom},
  title =	{{Row and Bounded Polymorphism via Disjoint Polymorphism}},
  booktitle =	{34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020)},
  pages =	{27:1--27:30},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-154-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{166},
  editor =	{Hirschfeld, Robert and Pape, Tobias},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.27},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-131846},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.27},
  annote =	{Keywords: Intersection types, bounded polymorphism, row polymorphism}
}
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