The notion of ThisType has been proposed to promote typesafe reuse of binary methods and recently extended to mutually recursive definitions. It is well-known, however, that This...
Subtyping relations for the -calculus are usually defined in a syntactic way, by means of structural rules. We propose a semantic characterisation of channel types and use it to d...
Giuseppe Castagna, Rocco De Nicola, Daniele Varacc...
We present the design and rationale of a new statically-typed object-oriented language, LOOM. LOOM retains most of the features of the earlier language PolyTOIL. However the subtyp...
Equality and subtyping of recursive types have been studied in the 1990s by Amadio and Cardelli; Kozen, Palsberg, and Schwartzbach; Brandt and Henglein; and others. Potential appl...