On 5/29/07, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Claus Reinke wrote:


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> phantom types:
>  the types of ghost values (in other words, we are only interested in
>  the type, not in any value of that type).

Mmm... Still not seeing a great amount of use for this one.


Okay, well phantom types are something I like because they allow some notion
of static capabilities, a la
http://okmij.org/ftp/papers/lightweight-static-capabilities.pdf
One of my big interests is how much of a true capability based security
system can be pushed up into the type level.
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