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Parametric polymorphism

In programming languages and type theory, parametric polymorphism allows a single piece of code to be given a "generic" type, using variables in place of actual types, and then instantiated with particular types as needed.: 340 Parametrically polymorphic functions and data types are sometimes called generic functions and generic datatypes, respectively…

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MLStandard MLOCamlF#Ada
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Predicativity, impredicativity, and higher-rank polymorphism

Quantifier rankConnectiveImpredicativePrenexMartin-Löf type theory
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Basic definition

Identity functionMost generalUniversally quantifiedType variableConcatenates
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Bounded parametric polymorphism

Luca CardelliPeter WegnerType classSubtypesSubtype polymorphism
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Parametric polymorphism

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Parametric polymorphism → Ada, At, Delphi, For, Girard, Haskell, In, Java, Julia, Leivant, Leivant's, Mercury, ML, NET, OCaml, One, Parametric, Python, Reynold's, Scala
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Parametric polymorphism → Bool, Eq, For, Generic, Haskell, In, In Haskell, In Standard ML, Luca Cardelli, Many, Peter Wegner, Rightarrow, Subtype
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Parametric polymorphism → Bool, For, Int, It, Parametric, String, The, This
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Parametric polymorphism → An, Impredicative, In, System, This

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