Wed 17 Jul 2019 14:50 - 15:10 at Mancy - Types Chair(s): Davide Ancona

Nominal type systems with variance, a core of subtype relation in object-oriented programming languages like Java, C# and Scala, have been extensively studied by Kennedy and Pierce; they have shown the undecidability of the subtyping between ground types and proposed the decidable fragments of such type systems. However, precise intraprocedural analysis of object-oriented code may require a reasoning about the relations of open types. In this paper, we formalize and investigate the satisfiability problem for nominal subtyping with variance. We define the problem in the context of first-order logic. We show that, although the non-expansive ground nominal subtyping with variance is decidable, its satisfiability problem is undecidable. Our proof uses a remarkably small fragment of the type system. In fact, we demonstrate that even for the non-expansive class tables with only nullary and unary covariant and invariant type constructors, the satisfiability of quantifier-free conjunctions of positive subtyping atoms is undecidable.

Wed 17 Jul

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13:30 - 15:10
TypesResearch Papers at Mancy
Chair(s): Davide Ancona University of Genova
13:30
20m
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Transient Typechecks are (Almost) Free
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Richard Roberts Victoria University of Wellington, Stefan Marr University of Kent, Michael Homer Victoria University of Wellington, James Noble Victoria University of Wellington
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A Typing Discipline for Hardware Interfaces
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Jan de Muijnck-Hughes University of Glasgow, Wim Vanderbauwhede University of Glasgow
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Minimal Session TypesPearl
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Alen Arslanagić University of Groningen, Jorge A. Pérez University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Erik Voogd University of Oslo
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Julia's Efficient Algorithm for Subtyping Unions and Covariant TuplesPearl
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Benjamin Chung Northeastern University, Francesco Zappa Nardelli Inria, Jan Vitek Northeastern University
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On Satisfiability of Nominal Subtyping with Variance
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Aleksandr Misonizhnik Saint-Petersburg State University, Dmitry Mordvinov Saint-Petersburg State University, JetBrains Research
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