Dependent type

The concept of dependent types

Dependent Types in Programming abstract in APPSEM'2000

To see how Illative Combinatory Logic deals with dependent types, see combinator G described in Systems of Illative Combinatory Logic complete for first-order propositional and predicate calculus by Henk Barendregt, Martin Bunder, Wil Dekkers. It seems to me that the dependent type construct $\forall x : S \Rightarrow T$ of Epigram corresponds to $\mathbf G\;S\;(\lambda x . T)$ in Illative Combinatory Logic. I think e.g. the followings should correspond to each other:

• $\mathrm{realNullvector} :\;\;\;\forall n: \mathrm{Nat} \Rightarrow \mathrm{RealVector}\;n$
• $\mathbf G\;\,\mathrm{Nat}\;\,\mathrm{RealVector}\;\,\mathrm{realNullvector}$

Dependently typed languages

Epigram is a full dependently typed programming language see especially

• Epigram Tutorial by Conor McBride
• and Why dependent types matter by Thorsten Altenkirch, Conor McBride and James McKinna).

Dependent types (of this language) also provide a not-forgetful concept of views (already mentioned in the Haskell Future; the connection between these concepts is described in p. 32 of Epigram Tutorial (section 4.6 Patterns Forget; Matching Is Remembering).

Dependent types for Haskell

• John Hughes: Dependent Types in Haskell (some ideas).
• SimulatingDependentTypes of HaWiki