
This paper describes a reduction from the halting problem of Turing machines to subtype checking in Java. It follows that subtype checking in Java is undecidable, which answers a question posed by Kennedy and Pierce in 2007. It also follows that Java's type checker can recognize any recursive language, which improves a result of Gill and Levy from 2016. The latter point is illustrated by a parser generator for fluent interfaces.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Programming Languages, QA76.76, D.3.3, Programming Languages (cs.PL)
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Programming Languages, QA76.76, D.3.3, Programming Languages (cs.PL)
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