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* [https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/Kinds Kinds] on the GHC Commentary | |||
* [https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/TypeType TypeType] on the GHC Commentary | |||
* [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/IntermediateTypes#KindsareTypes Kinds ?, ??, # and (#)] | * [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/IntermediateTypes#KindsareTypes Kinds ?, ??, # and (#)] | ||
* [[Books#Foundations|Pierce, Benjamin. ''Types and Programming Languages'']]. | * [[Books#Foundations|Pierce, Benjamin. ''Types and Programming Languages'']]. | ||
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Revision as of 03:52, 14 January 2017
Wikipedia says, "In type theory, a kind is the type of a type constructor or, less commonly, the type of a higher-order type operator. A kind system is essentially a simply typed lambda calculus 'one level up,' endowed with a primitive type, denoted * and called 'type', which is the kind of any (monomorphic) data type."
Ordinary types have kind *. Type constructors have kind P -> Q, where P and Q are kinds. For instance:
Int :: * Maybe :: * -> * Maybe Bool :: * a -> a :: * [] :: * -> * (->) :: * -> * -> *
In Haskell 98, * is the only inhabited kind, that is, all values have types of kind *. GHC introduces another inhabited kind, #, for unlifted types.
See also
- GHC/Kinds
- Kinds on the GHC Commentary
- TypeType on the GHC Commentary
- Kinds ?, ??, # and (#)
- Pierce, Benjamin. Types and Programming Languages.