[Haskell-cafe] Re: Aren't type system extensions fun? [Further analysis]

Achim Schneider barsoap at web.de
Thu May 29 09:21:37 EDT 2008


Kim-Ee Yeoh <a.biurvOir4 at asuhan.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Luke Palmer-2 wrote:
> > 
> > You have now introduced a first-class type function a la dependent
> > types, which I believe makes the type system turing complete.  This
> > does not help the decidability of inference :-)
> > 
> 
> God does not care about our computational difficulties. He infers
> types emp^H^H^H ... uh, as He pleases.
> 
This begs the question: Can God come up with a type He doesn't
understand?

The answer, it seems, is Mu.

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