Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In programming languages, type erasure refers to the compile-time process by which explicit type annotations are removed from a program, before it is executed at run-time. An operational semantics that does not require programs to be accompanied by types is called a type-erasure se ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In programming languages, type erasure refers to the compile-time process by which explicit type annotations are removed from a program, before it is executed at run-time. An operational semantics that does not require programs to be accompanied by types is called a type-erasure semantics, to be contrasted with a type-passing semantics. The possibility of giving a type-erasure semantics is a kind of abstraction principle, ensuring that the run-time execution of a program does not depend on type information.