From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Appending lists Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 22:43:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4tl1yvylvg1fxx5eefjs9mnk.1623688568572@email.android.com> <87o8c8l32h.fsf@posteo.net> <87zgvs2bup.fsf@zoho.eu> <87y2bby1kr.fsf@zoho.eu> <20210615091834.GB24886@tuxteam.de> <87im2ewr3k.fsf@zoho.eu> <20210616072819.GB17919@tuxteam.de> <20210616151101.GB5669@tuxteam.de> <875yydtnqz.fsf@zoho.eu> <87im2a3ek5.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3024"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:/rP5EmCissi85I+KNlSGQpk/66k= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 19 04:43:54 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1luQxd-0000Zo-U1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 04:43:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47630 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1luQxc-0003YC-8J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2021 22:43:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57208) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1luQxI-0003Y0-4O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2021 22:43:32 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:56818) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1luQxG-0003In-Mo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2021 22:43:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1luQxE-00008b-QP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 04:43:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131007 Archived-At: >> [ The relationship being that type theory is generally >> associated with constructive logic rather than with >> classical logic. ] > Eh, "type theory"? Are we talking types like in > a programming language? There is a theory behind that? You might also want to start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_theory What you're thinking of is usually called "(computational) type systems" instead, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_system As the first says: Type theory is closely related to, and in some cases overlaps with, computational type systems, which are a programming language feature used to reduce bugs. -- Stefan