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Type inference

In type theory, type inference (sometimes called type reconstruction) is the automatic detection of the type of an expression.: 320 These include programming languages and mathematical type systems, but also natural languages in some branches of computer science and linguistics.

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Type-checking vs. type-inference

Types in programming languages

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Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm

Type inference for natural languages

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Type inference

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Type inference

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related to Types in programming languages · 34
Type inference → ANSI, C23, Chapel, Clean, Crystal, Dart, For, FreeBASIC, Go, Haskell, Hindley, However, In, Increasingly, It, Java, Julia, Kotlin, Milner, ML
related to External links · 21
Type inference → Andrew Forrest, Archived, Basic Typechecking, Explains Hindley, February, Hidden, Hindley, Hindley-Milner, Implementation, July, Luca Cardelli, Michael Schwartzbach, Milner, Modula-2Implementation, Nikita Borisov, Perl, Polymorphic, Roger Hindley, Scala, Wayback Machine
related to Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm · 15
Type inference → Algorithm, Damas, Haskell Curry, Hindley, Hindley's, If, In, It, Luis Damas, Milner, Milner's, Robert Feys, Robin Milner, Roger Hindley, The
related to Technical description · 8
Type inference → Bool, In, Integer, It, Real, The, To, Type
has effect · 7
Type inference → Actually, By, Floating-point, For, However, Typical, Variant/dynamic
related to Type inference for natural languages · 1
Type inference → Type

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type inference denote types languages example integer algorithm typed first used programming expression known infer term hindley general language would

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Type inferencerelated to External linksRoger Hindley0.60section
Type inferencerelated to External linksMichael Schwartzbach0.60section
Type inferencerelated to External linksPolymorphic0.60section
Type inferencerelated to External linksBasic Typechecking0.60section

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