A Simple Take on Typed Abstract Syntax in Haskell-like Languages
Olivier Danvy, Morten Rhiger · BRICS Report Series · 2000
We present a simple way to program typed abstract syntax in a language following a Hindley-Milner typing discipline, such as Haskell and ML, and we apply it to automate two proofs about normalization functions as embodied in type-directed partial evaluation for the simply typed lambda calculus: normalization functions (1) preserve types and (2) yield long beta-eta normal forms. Keywords: Type-directed partial evaluation, normalization functions, simply-typed lambda-calculus, higher-order abstract syntax, Haskell.