| Abstract |
OO
languages such as Java or Smalltalk, and typed functional languages such
as Haskell or ML, have historically formed two distinct streams in programming
language design. So far, this gap has been best bridged by languages such
as Common Lisp and Dylan, which use multimethods and generic functions to
hybridize the OO and functional worlds. However, these languages have been
dynamically typed, and in this talk I introduce Needle, which attempts to
practically extend HM type inference to a language with generic functions
and inheritance. |