[Haskell-cafe] Type-Level Programming

[Andrew Coppin]

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
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> On 6/26/10 07:28 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
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>> Oh, right. So you mean that as well as being able to say "Foo Bar", you can
>> say "Foo 7", where 7 is (of course) a value rather than a type. (?)
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> A bit more than that:  imagine now that you can (a) replace that 7 with a
> variable and (b) do math on it in a type declaration.

Right, I see.

So is there a specific reason why Haskell isn't dependently typed then?