This article The purpose of this paper is to introduce b, a simply typed -calculus that supports type-based recursive definitions. Although heavily inspired from previous work by Giménez (Giménez 1998) and closely related to recent work by Amadio and Coupet (Amadio and Coupet-Grimal 1998), the technical machinery behind our system puts a slightly different emphasis on the interpretation of types. More precisely, we formalize the notion of type-based termination using a restricted form of type dependency (a.k.a. indexed types), as popularized by (Xi and Pfenning 1998; Xi and Pfenning 1999). This leads to a simple and intuitive system which is robust under several extensions, such as mutually inductive datatypes and mutually recursive function definitions; however, such extensions are not treated in the paper

Abstract We advocate the Mendler style of coding terminating recursion schemes as combinators by showing on the example of two simple and much used schemes (course-of-value iteration and simultaneous iteration) that choosing the Mendler style can sometimes lead to handier constructions than following the construction style of cata and para like combinators. 1 Introduction This paper is intended as an advert for something we call the Mendler style. This is a not too widely known style of coding terminating recursion schemes by combinators that di ers from the construction style of the famous cata and para combinators (for iteration and primitive-recursion, respectively) [Mal90,Mee92], here called the conventional style. The paper ar...