Mixin Composition Synthesis based on Intersection Types [article]

Jan Bessai, Tzu-Chun Chen, Andrej Dudenhefner, Boris Düdder, Ugo de'Liguoro, Jakob Rehof
2017 arXiv   pre-print
We present a method for synthesizing compositions of mixins using type inhabitation in intersection types. First, recursively defined classes and mixins, which are functions over classes, are expressed as terms in a lambda calculus with records. Intersection types with records and record-merge are used to assign meaningful types to these terms without resorting to recursive types. Second, typed terms are translated to a repository of typed combinators. We show a relation between record types
more » ... h record-merge and intersection types with constructors. This relation is used to prove soundness and partial completeness of the translation with respect to mixin composition synthesis. Furthermore, we demonstrate how a translated repository and goal type can be used as input to an existing framework for composition synthesis in bounded combinatory logic via type inhabitation. The computed result is a class typed by the goal type and generated by a mixin composition applied to an existing class.
arXiv:1712.06906v1 fatcat:5br4e3gkcrglzdkkrgrkzm7tam