Re:The Two Factions of C++
by Rusky on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @02:43PM
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The point of dependent types is to check these uses of N and M at compile time symbolically, for all possible values, without having to "lift" their actual concrete values to compile time.
Typical implementations of dependent types do not generate a separate copy of a function for every instantiation, the way C++ does, so they simply do not need the concrete values in the same way.
Typical implementations of dependent types do not generate a separate copy of a function for every instantiation, the way C++ does, so they simply do not need the concrete values in the same way.