for all quantifier

Peter G. Hancock peter@premise.demon.co.uk
Sat, 07 Jun 2003 08:04:00 +0100


On the hskell list, spj wrote

> I forget whether I've aired this on the list, but I'm seriously
> thinking = that we should change 'forall' to 'exists' in existential
> data constructors

Thanks!  It made me wonder what colour the sky is on planet Haskell. 
>From a Curry-Howard point of view, (I think) the quantifiers are 
currently the wrong way round.  It is actually painful! 

Peter Hancock