package inferno

Changes

2021/12/22

• Incompatible changes to the solver's high-level API. The concept of a binder has been introduced, and OCaml's binding operators let@, let+, and+ are now used, so as to make it easier to build constraints. (Contributed by Olivier Martinot and Gabriel Scherer.) The types of the combinators exist and construct have been simplified. The new combinator witness can be used to get access to the witness (that is, the final decoded type) for a type variable.

2020/11/04

• In the solver's high-level API, introduce a new combinator range, which allows annotating a constraint with a range of source code positions. Incompatible change: the exceptions Unbound, Unify, and Cycle now carry a range.
• In the solver's high-level API, define the type deep_ty of deep types, and introduce a new function build, which converts a deep type into a type variable, allowing it to appear in a constraint.
• In the solver's high-level API, introduce a new function instance_. This is a variant of instance. This function is more convenient (and more efficient) than instance when one does not need to know how a type scheme was instantiated.

2020/10/01

• Change the signature SolverSig.OUTPUT so as to make tyvar an abstract type. An injection function solver_tyvar : int -> tyvar is introduced.
• Add n-ary products to the System F demo. (Contributed by Gabriel Scherer and Olivier Martinot.)
• Some cleanup in the directory structure.

2019/09/24

• Use dune instead of ocamlbuild. All necessary library files should now be properly installed (which was not the case in the previous version).

2018/04/05

• First release of Inferno as an opam package.