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>> As an example, it would be unsustainable if, every time we changed a single function’s body, the language server had to re-typecheck the entire codebase.

If only there were a type system[1] where you could reinfer the function’s type in isolation and then recheck all uses!

(I don’t think Trevor Jim’s work on System P2 and System P received any further development, even in “better SML” work like 1ML, which seems like a shame, so I’m going to shill it wherever it appears relevant.)

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/237721.237728




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