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yes, all turing complete type systems make it possible to define type structures that would cause infinite loops, but typically they are able to detect this and refuse to compile



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“Oh, right.” He blusters a non-termination argument at nobody in particular. “That’s why we usually think in subsets of Haskell where types don’t have bottom values.”




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