On 10/15/07, Manuel M T Chakravarty <chak@cse.unsw.edu.au > wrote:

Dan Piponi wrote,
> On 10/12/07, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH < allbery@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> He wants to write entire programs in the type system,
>> something like the crazies who write programs in C++ templates such
>> that template expansion does all the work at compile time
>
> Crazies? :-)
> http://homepage.mac.com/sigfpe/Computing/peano.html
>
> Having switched from C++ to Haskell (at least in my spare time) I
> thought I'd escaped that kind of type hackery but it seems to be
> following me...

The way I see, we are trying to come up with a clean way of
providing type-level computations (ie, we use and extend the
standard theory of HM type systems). C++ embedded a functional
language in the type systems mostly by accident, whereas we do it on
purpose.

Manuel

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