This must be why there are no good compilers for dependently typed languages. :)

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> So IMO static typing is good, but it's only with functional programming that
>> it really shines.
>
> You can go one step further: if you start using dependent types, you'll
> see that it gets yet harder to get your program to type-check, and once
> it does, you don't even bother to run it since it's so blindingly
> obvious that it's correct.
>
>
>        Stefan
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