is type checking in D undecidable?
Dennis
dkorpel at gmail.com
Thu Oct 22 18:43:32 UTC 2020
On Thursday, 22 October 2020 at 17:25:44 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
> Is type checking in D undecidable? Per the wiki on dependent
> types it sure looks like it is.
It is indeed undecidable. Imagine you had a decider for it.
Because CTFE is clearly turing-complete, you can express that in
a D function `bool typeChecks(string code)` and then do this
(similar to the halting problem):
```
enum int x = typeChecks(import(__FILE__)) ? "abc" : 100;
```
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