[m-dev.] higher order types, overloading

Mark Brown mark at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Fri May 13 20:41:56 AEST 2005


On 13-May-2005, Mark Brown <mark at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 	- As above, except that in rule 4 choose the simplest kind, for some
> 	value of "simplest".  For example, choose the kind with the shortest
> 	left-hand branch (that is, choose the arity which is closest to the
> 	number of arguments supplied).

I mean right-hand branch, of course.  For example, `((* -> *) -> *) -> *'
has length 1, meaning that it expects one extra argument.

Cheers,
Mark.

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