Re: types with value parameter (another example of application)

1999-03-03 Thread Andrew Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Andrew J. Kennedy. Dimension Types. In ESOP '94: Proceedings of the > Fifth European Symposium on Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer > Science 788. Springer-Verlag, 1994 > > Available electronically from the out-of-date home page > http://www.cl.cam.ac.

Re: Haskell 2 -- Dependent types?

1999-02-19 Thread Andrew Moran
Lennart Augustsson writes: > > OK, I'm curious. Two people replied that C++ has undecidable type > > checking. I was not aware of this (although I can't say I'm too > > surprised); do you have a reference? > > It's actually the template processing that can loop, but it is > sort of part of the

Re: Formal design spec into Haskell or Miranda

1997-10-21 Thread Andrew Moran
Andrew Butterfield writes: > At 15:41 +0100 20/10/97, Greg Michaelson wrote: (rearranged by me for > dramatic effect :-) >> But you should look at the Jones and Hayes paper from Software Engineering >> Journal called something like "Executions are not (always) executable" I think Greg means "_S

Re: A new view of guards

1997-04-30 Thread Andrew Moran
Brian Boutel writes: > The <- syntax worries me a bit, because in the comprehension use it has a > different type, but the let syntax is available, and one can write "let p = > e" "for p <- e". I think that, to reduce possible confusion, I would use, > and teach, the let form. Given that, I don't