From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Making sense of predicates
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:11:09 +0200
Date: 2013-10-22T10:11:09+02:00 [thread overview]
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 00:14:27 -0700 (PDT), Shark8 wrote:
>> Well, predicates were not supposed to work in an intelligent way, so why
>> not to add a kind that will?
>
> I think they are supposed to work in an intelligent way, though perhaps
> they're not as nice as compile-time/static checks.
It is not about checks. Mathematically there might be no difference, but
for the language there is a great difference between inferred and
manifested properties of types. The power of the former is very limited.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-21 19:51 Making sense of predicates Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-10-22 4:35 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-10-22 8:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-10-22 12:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-10-22 13:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-10-22 20:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-10-24 4:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-10-24 7:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-10-22 7:14 ` Shark8
2013-10-22 7:35 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-10-22 17:26 ` Shark8
2013-10-23 7:56 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-10-24 3:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-10-22 8:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2013-10-22 7:20 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-10-22 7:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-10-22 14:52 ` Dan'l Miller
2013-10-22 16:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-10-22 17:15 ` Dan'l Miller
2013-10-22 19:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-10-22 19:49 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-10-22 21:30 ` Dan'l Miller
2013-10-23 9:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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