On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 23:36 +0000, Aaron Denney wrote: > On 2007-09-12, Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ok: > >> I've been told that functional dependencies are old hat and there is > >> now something better. I suspect that "better" here means "worse". > > > > Better here means "better" -- a functional language on the type system, > > to type a functional language on the value level. > > Meh. I prefer functional languages for general problems, but as > type-checking is a rather specific problem, I don't see why logic > programming isn't more appropriate. >
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