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    • CommentRowNumber1.
    • CommentAuthorMike Shulman
    • CommentTimeSep 6th 2012

    Created polymorphism.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeFeb 16th 2014

    added this reference:

    • Robert Atkey, Neil Ghani and Patricia Johann, A Relationally Parametric Model of Dependent Type Theory, In Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2014). 2014. (web)
  1. added the Milner 1978 reference

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    • CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
    • CommentTimeDec 17th 2018

    Added disambiguation link to poly-morphism.

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    • CommentAuthorCorbin
    • CommentTimeOct 2nd 2021

    Add a basic paragraph about the classic “Theorems for free!” paper.

    I am redlinking free theorem in anticipation of a more categorical approach which could consider these as examples of free objects.

    System F is redlinked elsewhere. Yet another article I should probably stub.

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    • CommentAuthorCorbin
    • CommentTimeOct 2nd 2021

    Fix LaTeX and add a link to the citation.

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  2. Also adding the Narya proof assistant to this article, to which parametricity redirects to.

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  3. Parametric polymorphism is also called parametricity in more recent type theory literature, such as in

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  4. Adding reference

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  6. Adding thesis

    • Guilhem Moulin. Internalizing parametricity. PhD thesis, Chalmers University, 2016. [pdf]

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  7. Adding reference

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  9. Added link to impredicative polymorphism

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