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Thu 23 Jan 2020 14:00 - 14:21 at Ile de France II (IDF II) - Type Systems Chair(s): Peter Thiemann

Dependent Object Types (DOT) is a calculus with path dependent types, intersection types, and object self-references, which serves as the core calculus of Scala 3. Although the calculus has been proven sound, it remains open whether type checking in DOT is decidable. In this paper, we establish undecidability proofs of type checking and subtyping of D<:, a syntactic subset of DOT. It turns out that even for D<:, undecidability is surprisingly difficult to show, as evidenced by counterexamples for past attempts. To prove undecidability, we discover an equivalent definition of the D<: subtyping rules in normal form. Besides being easier to reason about, this definition makes the phenomenon of bad bounds explicit as a single inference rule. After removing this rule, we discover two decidable fragments of D<: subtyping and identify algorithms to decide them. We prove soundness and completeness of the algorithms with respect to the fragments, and we prove that the algorithms terminate. Our proofs are mechanized in a combination of Coq and Agda.

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Thu 23 Jan

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14:00 - 15:05
Type SystemsResearch Papers at Ile de France II (IDF II)
Chair(s): Peter Thiemann University of Freiburg, Germany
14:00
21m
Talk
Undecidability of D<: and Its Decidable FragmentsDistinguished Paper
Research Papers
Jason Z.S. Hu McGill University, Ondřej Lhoták University of Waterloo
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14:21
21m
Talk
Decidable Subtyping for Path Dependent Types
Research Papers
Julian Mackay Victoria University of Wellington, Alex Potanin Victoria University of Wellington, Jonathan Aldrich Carnegie Mellon University, Lindsay Groves Victoria University of Wellington
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14:43
21m
Talk
Dependent Type Systems as Macros
Research Papers
Stephen Chang Northeastern University, Michael Ballantyne PLT @ Northeastern University, Milo Turner PLT @ Northeastern University, William J. Bowman University of British Columbia
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