The universal type
CL-USER> (setf universe (find-class 't)) #<BUILT-IN-CLASS T> CL-USER> (typep universe universe) T View On WordPress…
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The universal type
CL-USER> (setf universe (find-class 't)) #<BUILT-IN-CLASS T> CL-USER> (typep universe universe) T…
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I’m not arguing against type theories, not arguing against the usefulness of various forms of type inference, not arguing against reasonable requests, not arguing against the desire to reason about co…
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Is a sortable array an array that sorts or a sorter represented by an array? If you believe that types address all design issues you must make that decision. http://commandcenter.blogspot.ca/2012/06/…
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Every language has a type system; a particular way of organizing nouns into types, figuring out which verbs make sense on which types, and relating types to one another. Some languages are strict, and…
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Making that happen in a language design should involve some subtle shifts in the way data is conceptualized. That isn’t a digression in a discussion of types, because the way we conceptualize data ha…