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Type Theory Glossary

As a subject, garbage collection has a nice glossary that can be used as a reference while reading the literature. Do type systems/type theory have a comparable online glossary?

I haven't come across one, but it seems like a it could be valuable resource.

Pony Actor/OO with Deny Capabilities

Deny Capabilities for Safe, Fast Actors.
Combining the actor-model with shared memory for per- formance is efficient but can introduce data-races. Existing approaches to static data-race freedom are based on unique- ness and immutability , but lack flexibility and high perform- ance implementations. Our approach, based on deny prop- erties , allows reading, writing and traversing unique refer- ences, introduces a new form of write uniqueness , and guar- antees atomic behaviours .