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by ademarre 4424 days ago
> law-abiding implementations

Are you referring to category laws?

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Lots of typeclasses have associated "laws" that well-behaved instances are expected to abide by.
But these are not enforceable by the type system (at least in Haskell), kind of supporting my point that types alone are rarely sufficient :)
I don't think anyone believes that types are sufficient outside, at least outside of a dependently typed language (at which point you'll have more diversity of opinion).
Types in Haskell won't buy you 100% of what you need, but they may buy you 50%.