[Agda] mutual strangeness

Thorsten Altenkirch txa at Cs.Nott.AC.UK
Sun Feb 1 13:16:24 CET 2009


On 1 Feb 2009, at 04:43, Nils Anders Danielsson wrote:

> A better alternative might be to try to come up with
> new rules for mutually recursive definitions, preferably both flexible
> and easy to understand.

Indeed, and moreover these rules should be justified, ideally by a  
translation into a core type theory with a fixed set of combinators.

Luckily we have just obtained funding for a project to work on  
induction-recursion. Which reminds me that I am looking for a clever  
PhD student to work on this subject.

Cheers,
Thorsten

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