"value restriction" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2004, Jacques Garrigue, Relaxing the Value Restriction",
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        "In a functional language, inference of a polymorphic type only for syntactic values (values that can be evaluated at compile time) to ensure that a program is type-safe."
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        "(computer science, type theory) In a functional language, inference of a polymorphic type only for syntactic values (values that can be evaluated at compile time) to ensure that a program is type-safe."
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