[Haskell-cafe] question on types

Cristiano Paris frodo at theshire.org
Wed Feb 18 05:11:47 EST 2009


On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Lennart Augustsson
<lennart at augustsson.net> wrote:
> I just want to make one thing clear.  With a type that just contains
> prime numbers the onus is on you (the programmer) to provide the proof
> that a number is a prime number whenever you claim it is.  So you have
> to make the proof, and the compiler merely checks that your proof is
> correct.
> There is no free lunch.

That's the point I was aiming at.

Cristiano


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