-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Oleg for this elaboration. I'm now happy with the solution involving an existential. I first did not realize that I still could apply functions of type `Term t -> Term t` as soon as I open the package.
On 09/15/2012 01:02 PM, o...@okmij.org wrote: > Florian Lorenzen wrote: Chances are that you wanted the following > > typecheck :: {e:Exp} -> Result e where Result e has the type (Just > (Term t)) (with some t dependent on e) if e is typeable, and > Nothing otherwise. But this is a dependent function type > (Pi-type). No wonder we have to go through contortions like > Template Haskell to emulate dependent types in Haskell. Haskell was > not designed to be a dependently-typed language. Yes, this is what I was looking for. I know, Haskell is not dependently typed. But since many dependently typed idioms (like printf) can already be expressed using the GHC Haskell type system, I was wondering if this one was also possible. Best regards, Florian - -- Florian Lorenzen Technische Universität Berlin Fakultät IV - Elektrotechnik und Informatik Übersetzerbau und Programmiersprachen Sekr. TEL12-2, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, D-10587 Berlin Tel.: +49 (30) 314-24618 E-Mail: florian.loren...@tu-berlin.de WWW: http://www.user.tu-berlin.de/florenz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBW2YIACgkQvjzICpVvX7alFwCgkS5Gq2CfJqxX5ZV2TJQslSDn a9IAoJCj3HY5J8kU5T1HcCJGDFbUaLrc =G/Zf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe