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Typed lambda-calculus

<theory> (TLC) A variety of lambda-calculus in which every term is labelled with a type.

A function application (A B) is only synctactically valid if A has type s --> t, where the type of B is s (or an instance or s in a polymorphic language) and t is any type.

If the types allowed for terms are restricted, e.g. to Hindley-Milner types then no term may be applied to itself, thus avoiding one kind of non-terminating evaluation.

Most functional programming languages, e.g. Haskell, ML, are closely based on variants of the typed lambda-calculus.

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