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Are unsound type systems wrong?

This is an essay I wrote early-2016. After battling with soundness vs. usability in Typed Clojure for many years, I was starting to reconsider the “obviously wrong” approach of baking unsoundness into the type system from the get-go. I look at some historical examples of intentional unsoundness in type systems, and…
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Apr 7, 2018Are unsound type systems wrong? by mpweiher210158

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