Type Error Slicing in Implicitly Typed Higher-Order Languages
Christian Haack5
and J. B. Wells5
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Heriot-Watt University, USA |
Abstract
Previous methods have generally identified the location of a type error as a particular program point or the program subtree
rooted at that point. We present a new approach that identifies the location of a type error as a set of program points (a
slice) all of which are necessary for the type error. We describe algorithms for finding minimal type error slices for implicitly
typed higher-order languages like Standard ML.
This work was partially supported by EPSRC grant GR/R 41545/01, EC FP5 grant IST-2001-33477, NATO grant CRG 971607, NSF grants
CCR 9988529 and ITR 0113193, Sun Microsystems equipment grant EDUD-7826-990410-US.
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