Tag Archives: type-level

Back from Baltimore

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Brent

I’m finally back in Philly after attending ICFP, the Haskell Symposium, and the Haskell Implementors’ Workshop in Baltimore. I enjoyed meeting every person I met, so if I met you please feel free to instantiate the universal quantifier. Here’s a … Continue reading →

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On a Problem of sigfpe

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Brent

> {-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies, EmptyDataDecls, TypeOperators, GADTs #-} At the end of his most recent blog post, Divided Differences and the Tomography of Types, Dan Piponi left his readers with a challenge: In preparation for the next installment, here’s a … Continue reading →

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Typed type-level programming in Haskell, part IV: collapsing types and kinds

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Brent

In Part III, we saw how the current state of the art in Haskell type-level programming leaves some things to be desired: it requires duplicating both data declarations and code, and even worse, it’s untyped. What to do? Currently, GHC’s … Continue reading →

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Typed type-level programming in Haskell, part III: I can haz typs plz?

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Brent

In Part II, I showed how type families can be used to do type-level programming in a functional style. For example, here is addition of natural numbers again: data Z data S n type family Plus m n :: * … Continue reading →

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Typed type-level programming in Haskell, part II: type families

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Brent

In my previous post, we saw how multi-parameter type classes with functional dependencies in Haskell allow us to do type-level programming in a logic programming style. (If you’re not clear on why this corresponds to a logic programming style, see … Continue reading →

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Typed type-level programming in Haskell, part I: functional dependencies

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Brent

The other project I’m working on at MSR this summer is a bit more ambitious: our headline goal is to extend GHC to enable typed, functional, type-level programming. What’s that, you ask? Well, first, let me tell you a little … Continue reading →

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