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Theorems for free (bobkonf2021)

Theorems for free (bobkonf2021)

Chaos Computer Club - archive feed · Lars Hupel

February 26, 202136m 15s

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In the typed functional programming communities, there is much talk about “reasoning with types”. But rarely is this elaborated into something concrete. Just how can we extract tangible information from types beyond playing mere type tetris? The secret sauce is called parametricity, first described by John C. Reynolds, and later applied to Haskell by Philip Wadler in his seminal paper “Theorems for free!”. about this event: https://bobkonf.de/2021/miller.html

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