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formal systems to specify properties of objects
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Why have a numeric type hierarchy?
If you want to simply have a "number" type, then the compiler (or JIT) would need to prove that a type must be within bounds for a 32-bit integer to use an efficient 32-bit integer representation that …
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What do we gain by having "dependent types"?
Think of type declarations as nothing more than assertions. Currently, all you can say is things like isInt32(), isCharPtr(), etc. These various assertions are chosen to be checkable at compile-time …