From 60129b7d1c0ea8bdf2ec666fa51957e97465e88f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nadrieril Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 23:17:26 +0200 Subject: Consolidate errors in the error module --- dhall/src/errors/NoDependentLet.txt | 76 ------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 76 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 dhall/src/errors/NoDependentLet.txt (limited to 'dhall/src/errors/NoDependentLet.txt') diff --git a/dhall/src/errors/NoDependentLet.txt b/dhall/src/errors/NoDependentLet.txt deleted file mode 100644 index fdc65b4..0000000 --- a/dhall/src/errors/NoDependentLet.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,76 +0,0 @@ -Explanation: The Dhall programming language does not allow ❰let❱ expressions -from terms to types. These ❰let❱ expressions are also known as "dependent ❰let❱ -expressions" because you have a type whose value depends on the value of a term. - -The Dhall language forbids these dependent ❰let❱ expressions in order to -guarantee that ❰let❱ expressions of the form: - - - ┌────────────────────┐ - │ let x : t = r in e │ - └────────────────────┘ - - -... are always equivalent to: - - - ┌──────────────────┐ - │ (λ(x : t) → e) r │ - └──────────────────┘ - - -This means that both expressions should normalize to the same result and if one -of the two fails to type check then the other should fail to type check, too. - -For this reason, the following is $_NOT legal code: - - - ┌───────────────────┐ - │ let x = 2 in Text │ - └───────────────────┘ - - -... because the above ❰let❱ expression is equivalent to: - - - ┌─────────────────────────────┐ - │ let x : Integer = 2 in Text │ - └─────────────────────────────┘ - - -... which in turn must be equivalent to: - - - ┌───────────────────────────┐ - │ (λ(x : Integer) → Text) 2 │ - └───────────────────────────┘ - - -... which in turn fails to type check because this sub-expression: - - - ┌───────────────────────┐ - │ λ(x : Integer) → Text │ - └───────────────────────┘ - - -... has type: - - - ┌───────────────────────┐ - │ ∀(x : Integer) → Text │ - └───────────────────────┘ - - -... which is a forbidden dependent function type (i.e. a function from a term to -a type). Therefore the equivalent ❰let❱ expression is also forbidden. - -Your ❰let❱ expression is invalid because the input has type: - -↳ $txt0 - -... and the output has kind: - -↳ $txt1 - -... which makes this a forbidden dependent ❰let❱ expression -- cgit v1.2.3