search

derive4j / hkt

Higher Kinded Type machinery for Java
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
81 stars 9 forks source link

Rename Leibniz to TypeEq #21

Closed jbgi closed 7 years ago

jbgi commented 7 years ago

Leibniz is probably unnecessarily non-intuitive. In type theory this concept is usually more often refereed as "propositional equality" or "type equality" (as in "propositions as types").

I took the name from scalaz but thinking of it, the term "Leibniz equality" is maybe best left in the javadoc.

Also this would be more in line with Haskell built-in type equality (also it may be worth having a look at the combinators provided by this package).

@clinuxrulz, @gneuvill, WDYT? (originally, @clinuxrulz, I think you also used TypeEq).

Alternative could be TypeEquals (used in purescript).

gneuvill commented 7 years ago

TypeEq is good.

clinuxrulz commented 7 years ago

I'm happy with TypeEq too.