On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:24:38 +0100, you wrote: >I was actually thinking more along the lines of a programming language >where you can just write > > head :: (n > 1) => List n x -> x > > tail :: List n x -> List (n-1) x > > (++) :: List n x -> List m x -> List (n+m) x > >and so forth.
How, then, is that any different from a general-purpose programming language? You're just drawing the "line in the sand" in a different place. You end up with a programming system where compilation is a "side effect" of executing the "real" program. Steve Schafer Fenestra Technologies Corp. http://www.fenestra.com/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
