Introduction

The Letlang type system is entirely dynamic.

In mathematics, a value does not have a single type. Instead, it belongs to one or more sets:

• 42 is an integer, a real number, a scalar, …
• (2, 1) is a 2D vector, a 2x1 matrix, …

This concept is at the core of Letlang’s type system.

Each type defines a structure, and optionnaly a predicate, indicating what values belong to the type.

We can consider a type as a function that takes a value as parameter, and returns true or false whether that value belongs to the type or not.