Yeah! It gets a bit weird! Clojure lets you have ‘namespaced symbols’ but that requires a top level namespace thingy. Where as I would love to be able to get rid of the top level ‘command’ language (like in Dhall and Nix)
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Wish I understood levitation at this point - I think it lets you bootstrap datatypes inside the system itself, which feels possibly reminiscent?
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Not seen this one actually! Wondering what bits of a language could be considered 'coeffectful' if anything? Records perhaps?
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Still trying to get my head around this mysterious yet tantalizing thingy: ncatlab.org/nlab/show/nece
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like, what are records, telescopes, and functions actually doing? 😳 - somehow a record field is 'stronger' than a function parameter - ie. a function can be constructed even if there is no way of providing a parameter, where as a record kind of *insists* that a field is present.
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But yeah I might be going off on an unrelated tangent here… 😬
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this comes up because I'm pondering bundled vs unbundled modules - and type parameters vs associated types… but yeah I have no idea what I'm doing so probably should step away from the theory 😟
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Check out the point starting with "10. Structures are meaninglessly parameterized…" jiggerwit.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/a-r
Type classes in haskell are usually 'unbundled', where as modules in ML are usually 'bundled'
tbh I think it's not just a dependently typed thing - it's kind of common to languages with simpler types systems too. Sometimes I struggle with the associated type vs parameter question In Rust too, for example.
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