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by george_____t 939 days ago
> AIUI, in this case, the major issue is that it is very tempting to try to impose a constraint that all intermediate states the code passes through are semantically valid. However while superficially appealing this turns out to be a crippling constraint.

This really isn't much of an issue in a language with holes as a first class concept, like Agda or Haskell.