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So You Still Don’t Understand Hindley-Milner? Part 2

In Part 1, we said what the building blocks of the Hindley-Milner formalization would be, and in this post we’ll thoroughly define them, and actually formulate the formalization:

Formalizing the concept of an expression

We’ll give a recursive definition of what an expression is; in other words, we’ll state what the most basic kind of expression is, we’ll say how to create new, more complex expressions out of existing expressions, and we’ll say that only things made in this way are valid expressions.

Read on at my blog (since these blogs don’t support MathJax) →