Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by pointedset 1895 days ago
Unfortunately, constructive vs classical (vs linear, etc.) applies to proofs, but this is really about definitions. Proofs can be correct or incorrect pretty straightforwardly, but definitions being correct or not is really a matter of taste. (And as someone who's been formalising some mathematics in Lean recently, definitions are so much trickier to get right than proofs!)