Anton van Straaten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> But a program as seen by the programmer has types: the programmer
> performs (static) type inference when reasoning about the program, and
> debugs those inferences when debugging the program, finally ending up
> with a program which has a perfectly good type scheme.

I'd be tempted to go further, and say that the programmer performs 
(informally, incompletely, and probably incorrectly ) a proof of
correctness, and that type correctness is just a part of general
correctness. 

-k
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