On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Matt Oliveri <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Keean Schupke <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sorry, it was a terminology question. Would you call type - classes applied
>> to dependent types value-classes?
>
> You mean type classes applied to values? If they're applied to
> dependent types, well those are still types, so they should still be
> called type classes.
>
> I don't know if dependent type systems let you apply something like
> type classes to values. It would make sense if they did. I don't know
> what that's called.

It looks like Coq's type classes allow parameters that aren't types.
Yet they're still called type classes. :\

But come to think of it, I think some people call them "canonical structures".
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