Kind (type theory)In the area of mathematical logic and computer science known as type theory, a kind is the type of a type constructor or, less commonly, the type of a higher-order type operator. A kind system is essentially a simply typed lambda calculus "one level up", endowed with a primitive type, denoted and called "type", which is the kind of any data type which does not need any type parameters. A kind is sometimes confusingly described as the "type of a (data) type", but it is actually more of an arity specifier.
Type constructorIn the area of mathematical logic and computer science known as type theory, a type constructor is a feature of a typed formal language that builds new types from old ones. Basic types are considered to be built using nullary type constructors. Some type constructors take another type as an argument, e.g., the constructors for product types, function types, power types and list types. New types can be defined by recursively composing type constructors.
Lambda cubethumb|Le lambda-cube. Initialement proposé par Henk Barendregt, le -cube permet de visualiser les différentes dimensions pour lesquelles le calcul des constructions apporte une généralisation par rapport au lambda-calcul simplement typé où un terme ne peut dépendre que d'un autre terme. Chaque axe représente une nouvelle forme d'abstraction : Terme dépendant de type : le polymorphisme ; Type dépendant de type : présence d'opérateurs de types ; Type dépendant de terme. Catégorie:Calculabilité Catégorie:Théor
SubtypingIn programming language theory, subtyping (also subtype polymorphism or inclusion polymorphism) is a form of type polymorphism in which a subtype is a datatype that is related to another datatype (the supertype) by some notion of substitutability, meaning that program elements, typically subroutines or functions, written to operate on elements of the supertype can also operate on elements of the subtype. If S is a subtype of T, the subtyping relation (written as S
