Strongly typed heterogeneous collections (2004)
| Venue: | In Haskell ’04: Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Haskell |
| Citations: | 41 - 8 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Kiselyov04stronglytyped,
author = {Oleg Kiselyov},
title = {Strongly typed heterogeneous collections},
booktitle = {In Haskell ’04: Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Haskell},
year = {2004},
pages = {96--107},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}
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Abstract
A heterogeneous collection is a datatype that is capable of storing data of different types, while providing operations for look-up, update, iteration, and others. There are various kinds of heterogeneous collections, differing in representation, invariants, and access operations. We describe HLIST — a Haskell library for strongly typed heterogeneous collections including extensible records. We illustrate HLIST’s benefits in the context of type-safe database access in Haskell. The HLIST library relies on common extensions of Haskell 98. Our exploration raises interesting issues regarding Haskell’s type system, in particular, avoidance of overlapping instances, and reification of type equality and type unification.
