[Haskell-cafe] Re: Type-level arithmetic

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Fri Oct 12 19:44:23 EDT 2007


On Oct 12, 2007, at 19:42 , Dan Piponi wrote:

> On 10/12/07, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> He wants to write entire programs in the type system,
>> something like the crazies who write programs in C++ templates such
>> that template expansion does all the work at compile time
>
> Crazies? :-)
> http://homepage.mac.com/sigfpe/Computing/peano.html

I'm not sure it's entirely sane even in Haskell, but in C++ templates  
it is definitely *not* sane.  :)

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