Re: [TYPES] a naive question on datatype declarations

2024-01-29 Thread Jon Sterling
ature but it is semantically meaningless. > > Thorsten > > From: Jon Sterling > Date: Monday, 29 January 2024 at 08:24 > To: Thorsten Altenkirch (staff) > Cc: types-list@LISTS.SEAS.UPENN.EDU > Subject: Re: [TYPES] a naive question on datatype declarations > > T

Re: [TYPES] a naive question on datatype declarations

2024-01-29 Thread Jon Sterling
to confuse the two things. > > Cheers, > Thorsten > > From: Types-list <mailto:types-list-boun...@lists.seas.upenn.edu>> on behalf of Jon Sterling > mailto:j...@jonmsterling.com>> > Date: Saturday, 27 January 2024 at 15:25 > To: types-list@LISTS.SEAS.UPENN.EDU <mailto:

Re: [TYPES] a naive question on datatype declarations

2024-01-27 Thread Jon Sterling
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] Hi Gershom, This is a good question, and often overlooked. Bob Harper taught me to think of these things as abstract types, and I agree — so the thing that makes two different datatype declarations different is the

Re: [TYPES] Why are ACM conference registrations so expensive now?

2023-12-13 Thread Jon Sterling
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] Hi all, I am seconding Neel's concern, and wish to thank him for bringing it up. After much agonising, I have chosen not to go to POPL at all this year despite the fact that I have ***two papers*** in the conference;

Re: [TYPES] Equivalence invariance for MLTT (reference request)

2023-06-13 Thread Jon Sterling
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] Dear Andrej, I am not completely sure because it is a while since I had watched this, but I think this might be related to the topic of Per Martin-Löf's 2013 Earnest Nagel Lecture “Invariance Under Isomorphism and

Re: [TYPES] What is the term after reduction called?

2022-06-13 Thread Jon Sterling
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] I think I have also heard 'contractum'. But maybe that refers to the result of applying a single reduction rule? Not sure. Best, Jon On Thu, Jun 9, 2022, at 5:10 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > [ The Types Forum,

Re: [TYPES] ETAPS bars Russian researchers from attending

2022-03-09 Thread Jon Sterling
ught topic and that people have good reasons for holding the views they do. I hope that as a community we can find a way to talk about it that is respectful and also cognizant of the difficulty of the issues that we are facing now. Best wishes, Jon Sterling > On Mar 9, 2022, at 5:07 PM, Fritz He

Re: [TYPES] ETAPS bars Russian researchers from attending

2022-03-08 Thread Jon Sterling
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] Neel, thank you for bringing this to the community's attention. I think this is terrible --- and it shows the way that certain European conference organizers divide up imperialist wars of aggression and colonization

Re: [TYPES] Wanted: Jean-Yves Girard's "Interprétation fonctionnelle et élimination des coupures de l'arithmétique d'ordre supérieur"

2022-01-03 Thread Jon Sterling
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] I am very sorry to say that Kevin Watkins has passed away in May of last year.

Re: [TYPES] Diamond open access, cost and sustainability model: a JOSS example

2021-06-01 Thread Jon Sterling
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] I think it is confusing to refer to costs that are already paid by someone else as "a bill that someone needs to foot". arXiv already exists, etc. and anyone who wants to make a new totally free journal does not

Re: [TYPES] global debriefing over our virtual experience of conferences

2020-08-23 Thread Jon Sterling
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] I want to put in my agreement with Talia's second point that we should move to a model in which deadlines are frequent and cheap to miss (as is the case in every discipline that is lucky enough to be based on journals)

Re: [TYPES] Meaning explanations and the invalidity of the law of excluded middle

2017-10-17 Thread Jon Sterling
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] Dear Andrej and Thomas, I was referring to extensional MLTT (MLTT 1979), not intensional MLTT (for which the question is still open, I believe); I believe the result is from Troelstra, but I can try and dig up the

Re: [TYPES] Purely functional programming with reference cells

2014-11-05 Thread Jon Sterling
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] (Sorry, please read the first sentence as “from an *untyped* computation system not typed. -JMS On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, at 09:01 AM, Jon Sterling wrote: Eduardo, I would say that the kind of thing you are thinking