[Agda] I want implicit coercions in Agda

Martin Escardo m.escardo at cs.bham.ac.uk
Sat Nov 17 12:40:11 CET 2018



On 17/11/2018 10:29, mechvel at botik.ru wrote:

> Generally, we need to respect mathematical style.
> It is based on experience of many centuries.
> Most of the mathematical community really understands which book is
> easier to read.
> I tend to trust this approach more.

Exactly. I fully agree.

If implicit coercions are ever implemented, I propose that the emacs 
mode and the html rendering highlight the implicitly coerced things with 
a different color so that the reader can see that there is a coercion 
being applied.

Martin




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