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A practical framework for type inference error explanation

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Sridharan, Manu Chandra, Satish Loncaric, Calvin Schlesinger, Cole
Abstract	Many languages have support for automatic type inference. But when inference fails, the reported error messages can be unhelpful, highlighting a code location far from the source of the problem. Several lines of work have emerged proposing error reports derived from correcting sets: a set of program points that, when fixed, produce a well-typed program. Unfortunately, these approaches are tightly tied to specific languages; targeting a new language requires encoding a type inference algorithm for the language in a custom constraint system specific to the error reporting tool. We show how to produce correcting set-based error reports by leveraging existing type inference implementations, easing the burden of adoption and, as type inference algorithms tend to be efficient in practice, producing error reports of comparable quality to similar error reporting tools orders of magnitude faster. Many type inference algorithms are already formulated as dual phases of type constraint generation and solving; rather than (re)implementing type inference in an error explanation tool, we isolate the solving phase and treat it as an oracle for solving typing constraints. Given any set of typing constraints, error explanation proceeds by iteratively removing conflicting constraints from the initial constraint set until discovering a subset on which the solver succeeds; the constraints removed form a correcting set. Our approach is agnostic to the semantics of any particular language or type system, instead leveraging the existing type inference engine to give meaning to constraints. .
Starting Page	781
Ending Page	799
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450344449
DOI	10.1145/2983990.2983994
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2016-10-19
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Type inference Type error diagnosis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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