Lisp and Haskell (2015)

Re:Lisp and Haskell (2015) by sullyj3 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:48AM (#24718207)

In practice I've found that it leads to writing code that you know is unreachable, but you can't prove it to the compiler.

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Re:Lisp and Haskell (2015) by tasuki on Thursday October 08, 2020 @09:13AM (#24718789)

If you know the list can't be empty, can't you prove that to the compiler by using a non-empty list type?

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Re:Lisp and Haskell (2015) by sullyj3 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @09:52AM (#24719088)

Good point! last time I used elm i didn't know what a nonempty list was.

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