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Mechanized type inference for record concatenation

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Summary

This in-depth blog post analyzes mechanized type inference for biased record concatenation in Nix, tracing the Wand algorithm from historical roots to a practical, mechanizable approach. It details declarative and algorithmic semantics, constraint generation, and a substantial Haskell implementation, including field/row instantiation and a complete constraint solver. It also provides a companion GitHub project to test and reproduce the results.

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