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First-Class Type Classes

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Type Classes have met a large success in Haskell and Isabelle, as a solution for sharing notations by overloading and for specifying with abstract structures by quantification on contexts. However, both systems are limited by second-class implementations of these constructs, and these limitations are only overcomed by ad-hoc extensions to the respective systems. We propose an embedding of type classes into a dependent type theory that is first-class and supports some of the most popular extensions right away. The implementation is correspondingly cheap, general and integrates well inside the system, as we have experimented in Coq. We show how it can be used to help structured programming and proving by way of examples.

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  1. Univ. Paris Sud, CNRS,Laboratoire LRI, UMR 8623,Orsay, F-91405 INRIA Saclay, ProVal, Parc Orsay Université, F-91893, France

    Matthieu Sozeau

  2. University of Nottingham, UK

    Nicolas Oury

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W, H3G 1M8, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Otmane Ait Mohamed

  2. National Institute of Aerospace, 100 Exploration Way, VA 23666, Hampton, USA

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  3. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonette W, H3G 1M8, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Sofiène Tahar

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Sozeau, M., Oury, N. (2008). First-Class Type Classes. In: Mohamed, O.A., Muñoz, C., Tahar, S. (eds) Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics. TPHOLs 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5170. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71067-7_23

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