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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Lukasz Stafiniak <lukstafi@g...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Unsoundness is essential |
A "sound program refuter" will not reject correct programs. On 10/4/07, skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > To be bold I propose type theorists have got it totally wrong. > > I want an unsound type system! It much better than the useless > but 'sound' type system of Python, in which the type inference > engine decides all values have type Object and proves > in vacuuo that all programs are type-safe, only to do the > dependent type checks at run time anyhow -- a cheat known > as dynamic typing.