From: "Christopher L Conway" <cconway@cs.nyu.edu>
To: "Vincent Aravantinos" <vincent.aravantinos@gmail.com>
Cc: "Gurus Ocaml" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Depend-type beginner question
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 11:41:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a051d930710050841t7de7dfa3qf695ee271b38bcb7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2EF33DCA-1E28-4F10-AEAB-F3258E976CA7@gmail.com>
On 10/5/07, Vincent Aravantinos <vincent.aravantinos@gmail.com> wrote:
> why actually dependant types cannot be implemented in ocaml ? Is the
> type checking undecidable ? Or is it for other reason (e.g.
> arithmetic) ? I guess it's both. But could someone develop precisely ?
It's not that dependent types can't be implemented in OCaml, just that
they haven't. See, e.g., http://www.cs.bu.edu/~hwxi/DML/DML.html
I suspect the OCaml development team is not inclined to add "sexier"
types to the core language, though I can't say if there are any
specific technical hurdles preventing it (certainly, decidability is
an issue)...
Regards,
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-05 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-05 15:32 Vincent Aravantinos
2007-10-05 15:41 ` Christopher L Conway [this message]
2007-10-05 15:53 ` [Caml-list] " Vincent Aravantinos
2007-10-05 16:05 ` Ashish Agarwal
2007-10-05 16:15 ` Vincent Aravantinos
2007-10-05 16:18 ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-10-05 16:34 ` Vincent Aravantinos
2007-10-05 23:29 ` Arnaud Spiwack
2007-10-05 16:51 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
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