On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Geoffrey Irving <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> By the way: the reason I don't think this is a problem is that the
> compiler can just give up after a while and say "I'm not sure".  I
> don't see how this pragmatic solution differs from standard
> Hindley-Milner eating all the RAM in the universe due to exponential
> blowup even with a simple decidable type system.


It's *very* different. If two systems differ in RAM, that's an easy thing
to fix. If two compilers differ in when they choose to quit on the problem,
that's a failure of language definition.


shap
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