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Monomorphic type

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A data type without universally quantified type variables. During Hindley-Milner type inference, every use of a lambda-bound parameter shares one type, even if that type initially contains unknowns to be unified. In contrast, suitable let-bound definitions may admit let polymorphism.

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  • Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford / 2013 / Functional programming, design and analysis of algorithms / 1 / b / ii / Solution

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