On 25 Apr 2008, at 14:20, Tom Schrijvers wrote:
Prolog works under the assumption of a closed world. That's contrary to the open world view of regular type classes. So these aren't the intended semantics.
By which I gather you mean the interpretation of ":-" as logical connective "=>" rather than provability "|-"?
My point, though, was to interpret class a b | a -> b as a functional dependency b = b(a) rather than as D a b, D a c ==> b=c Thus trying to eliminate the use of "=". Might that be exploited in the type theory context? Hans _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
