[Haskell-cafe] Re: Type system

[Don Stewart]

Yeah, I should clarify, this quote came up in relation to ATs, which
are designed speifically to make type programming easier (unlike MPTCs
and FDs, where it was an Olegian accident)

lennart:
>    No, Haskell wasn't designed with type level programming in mind.
>    In fact it took a few years before any serious type level
>    programming was done.  And lo and behold, the type level has an
>    untyped logic language.
> 
>      -- Lennart
> 
>    On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Ben Franksen <[1]ben.franksen at online.de>
>    wrote:
> 
>      Don Stewart wrote:
>      > As Manuel says, in C++ type level programming was an accident, in
>      > Haskell, it was by design.
> 
>      Was it, really? I was laways under teh impression that Oleg-style type
>      system tricks were not in the least anticipated back when Haskell
>      acquired
>      type classes...
> 
>      Cheers
>      Ben
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