Abstracting extensible data types: or, rows by any other name
- Submitting institution
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Heriot-Watt University
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 41355472
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1145/3290325
- Title of journal
- Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
- Article number
- 12
- First page
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- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- POPL
- ISSN
- 2475-1421
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Citation count
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This paper solves a 30+year-old open problem due to Mitchell Wand, that of giving a principal type to the 'row concatenation' operator, and the consequences of its successful solution to the problem of datatype, record, and module extensibility. Accepted at PACMPL/POPL, the top ACM conference/journal for programming language theory (29% acceptance rate).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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