Hindley-Milner type systems

A form of Hindley-Milner type system — A classical type system for the lambda calculus with parametric polymorphism, notable for its completeness and its ability to infer the most general type of a given program without programmer-supplied type annotations or other hints.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of Hindley-Milner type system
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