Semantic subtyping
Alain Frisch, Giuseppe Castagna, Véronique Benzaken · Journal of the ACM · 2008
Subtyping relations are usually defined either syntactically by a formal system or semantically by an interpretation of types into an untyped denotational model. This work shows how to define a subtyping relation semantically in the presence of Boolean connectives, functional types and dynamic dispatch on types, without the complexity of denotational models, and how to derive a complete subtyping algorithm.