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From: Christopher Dutchyn <cdutchyn@cs.ubc.ca>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Default values for structures (feature request)
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 09:34:34 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.53.0406030933250.4660@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040603093106.GA26175@redhat.com>


On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Richard Jones wrote:

> Out of interest, is there a theoretical reason why types shouldn't
> contain values, or is it just because it's a lot of work to change the
> compiler?

This leads to dependent types, and pure type systems, and other esoterica
that are still active research areas -- (read: there are important
questions lacking goood answers).

Chris Dutchyn

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      reply	other threads:[~2004-06-03 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-02 12:12 Richard Jones
2004-06-02 12:56 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-06-03  9:30   ` Sven Luther
2004-06-03 16:33     ` Christopher Dutchyn
2004-06-03  9:31   ` Richard Jones
2004-06-03 16:34     ` Christopher Dutchyn [this message]

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