The (experimental) Static module of hmatrix seems (I've used the packaged but not that module) to do exactly that: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hmatrix-0.19.0.0/docs/Numeric-LinearAlgebra-Static.html
Hello Mike,
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 11:10:06AM +0000, mike h wrote:
> Multiplication of two matrices is only defined when the the number of columns in the first matrix
> equals the number of rows in the second matrix. i.e. c1 == r2
>
> So when writing the multiplication function I can check that c1 == r2 and do something.
> However what I really want to do, if possible, is to have the compiler catch the error.
Type-level literals [1] or any kind of similar trickery should help you
with having matrices checked at compile-time.
[1] https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.1/docs/html/users_guide/type-level-literals.html
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