The need for subtyping in type-systems with dependent types has been realized for some years. But it is hard to prove that systems combining the two features have fundamental properties such as subject reduction. Here we investigate a subtyping extension of the system *P, which is an abstract version of the type system of the Edinburgh Logical Framework LF. By using an equivalent formulation, we establish some important properties of the new system *P^, including subject reduction. Our analysis culminates in a complete and terminating algorithm which establishes the decidability of type-checking.

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A type may be a subtype of another type. The intuition about this should be clear: a type is a type of data, some data then may live in a given type as well as in a larger one, up to a simple "transformation". The advantage is that those data may be "seen" or used in different contexts. The formal treatment of this intuition, though, is not so obvious, in particular when data may be programs. In Object Oriented Programming, where the issue of "reusing data" is crucial, there has been a long-lasting discussion on "inheritance" and ... little agreement. There are several ways to understand and formalize inheritance, which depend on the specific programming environment used. Since early work of Cardelli and Wegner, there has been a large amount of papers developing several possible functional approaches to inheritance, as subtyping. Indeed, functional subtyping captures only one point of view on inheritance, yet this notion largely motivated most of that work. Whethe

We present a coercive subtyping system for the calculus of constructions. The proposed system λC co ≤ is obtained essentially by adding coercions and η-conversion to λC≤[10], which is a subtyping extension to the calculus of constructions without coercions. Following [17, 18], the coercive subtyping c: A ≤ B is understood as a special case of typing in arrow type c: A → B such that the term c behaves like an identity function. We prove that, with respect to this semantic interpretation, the proposed coercive subtyping system is sound and complete, and that this completeness leads to transitivity elimination (transitivity rule is admissible). In and CCβη, this fact implies that λC co ≤ has confluence, subject reduction and strong normalization. We propose a formalization of coercion inference problem and present a sound and complete coercion inference algorithm. addition, we establish the equivalence between λC co

A type may be a subtype of another type. The intuition about this should be clear: a type is a type of data, some data then may live in a given type as well as in a larger one, up to a simple "transformation". The advantage is that those data may be "seen" or used in different contexts. The formal treatment of this intuition, though, is not so obvious, in particular when data may be programs. In Object Oriented Programming, where the issue of "reusing data" is crucial, there has been a long-lasting discussion on "inheritance" and ... little agreement. There are several ways to understand and formalize inheritance, which depend on the specific programming environment used. Since early work of Cardelli and Wegner, there has been a large amount of papers developing several possible functional approaches to inheritance, as subtyping. Indeed, functional subtyping captures only one point of view on inheritance, yet this notion largely motivated most of that work. Whethe

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