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Various desired forms of reasonableness

A small study in the vagaries of Rgular types in C++.

Abseil blog post.

How can we get better statically typed assurances around the nuances of such concepts? Which languages help the most? Things like Rust or ATS come to mind.

By raould at 2020-01-17 00:36 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 4530 reads

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I find this material deeply thought-provoking. Of course I'm skeptical of the whole strategy of typed programming, but my skepticism focuses largely on its technical complexity; here the actual concerns appear to be quite practical and intuitively substantial (if a bit hard to get a firm grip on). The context in which they occur is that of a complex type system; but one wonders if somehow the worldview of the programming paradigm has caused these fundamental issues to manifest in the form of typing, and there might be a way to look at things that would prevent the issues from manifesting in that form. Alas, typing is a highly addictive way to think about programming; paradigms are hard to think one's way out of.

By John Shutt at Fri, 2020-02-07 15:53 | login or register to post comments