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commenting for future reference.

that's a great quote.

Thanks. The Shen language takes this to its logical conclusion (pun intended) and implements a fully Turing complete type system. Types are specified with sequents which are essentially Prolog relations using a slightly different notation.[1]

1: https://shenlanguage.org/OSM/Recursive.html

Yes! I have played with Shen before.

IIRC the type checker is literally a Prolog.

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