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NOTE: represent type by s-exp when doing inference

Compare with old implementation, this version improves by using s-exp to represent type, therefore, can reduce unify size a lot.

(define (lookup/type-of env v)
  (hash-ref env v))
(define (extend/env env v t)
  (hash-set env v t))

(define (occurs v t)
  (match t
    [`(,t* ...)
     (ormap (λ (t) (occurs v t)) t*)]
    [t (equal? v t)]))

(define (unify t1 t2)
  (match* (t1 t2)
    [(_ t2) #:when (parameter? t2)
	    (if (or (eqv? t1 (t2)) (not (occurs (t2) t1)))
		(t2 t1)
		(error (format "~a occurs in ~a" (t2) t1)))]
    [(t1 _) #:when (parameter? t1)
	    (unify t2 t1)]
    [(`(,a* ...) `(,b* ...))
     (for-each unify a* b*)]
    [(_ _)
     (unless (eqv? t1 t2)
       (error (format "cannot unify type ~a and ~a" t1 t2)))]))

(define (recur-infer tm [env (make-immutable-hash)])
  (match tm
    [`(λ (,x* ...) ,t)
     (let ([λ-env (foldl (λ (x e)
			   (extend/env e x (make-parameter (gensym))))
			 env x*)])
       `(-> ,(map (λ (x) (lookup/type-of λ-env x)) x*)
	    ,(recur-infer t λ-env)))]
    [`(let ([,x* ,xt*] ...) ,t)
     (let ([let-env (foldl (λ (x t e)
			     ; use GEN for each binding
			     ; INST for each variable occurs
			     (extend/env e x (recur-infer t e)))
			   env x* xt*)])
       (recur-infer t let-env))]
    [`(quote ,p*)
     `(list ,(if (empty? p*)
		 (make-parameter (gensym))
		 (let ([et (recur-infer (car p*) env)])
		   (for-each (λ (et*) (unify et* et))
			     (map (λ (x) (recur-infer x env)) (cdr p*)))
		   et)))]
    [`(,f ,arg* ...)
     (let ([free (make-parameter (gensym))])
       (unify (recur-infer f env)
	      `(-> ,(map (λ (arg) (recur-infer arg env)) arg*) ,free))
       free)]
    [x (cond
	 [(string? x) 'string]
	 [(number? x) 'number]
	 [(char? x) 'char]
	 [(symbol? x) (lookup/type-of env x)]
	 [else (error (format "unknown form: ~a" x))])]))

(define (elim-free ty)
  (match ty
    [`(,ty* ...)
     (map elim-free ty*)]
    [ty (if (parameter? ty)
	    (elim-free (ty))
	    ty)]))

(define (infer tm) (elim-free (recur-infer tm)))

Date: 2020-08-01 Sat 00:00

Author: Lîm Tsú-thuàn