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2026-03-11 16:34:01 +0100 <tomsmeding> in terms of "relatively" simple categorical constructrs
2026-03-11 16:33:41 +0100 <tomsmeding> like, one that actually models interesting structure of the language
2026-03-11 16:33:20 +0100 <tomsmeding> perhaps "useful denotational semantics"
2026-03-11 16:33:14 +0100 <tomsmeding> isn't it possible to attach denotational semantics to anything?
2026-03-11 16:32:52 +0100 <dminuoso> I think a more accurate phrasing would be "It is possible to attach denotational semantics to a subset of Haskell", rather than saying that we *have* them (which might suggest that the language was signed ontop of it)
2026-03-11 16:32:32 +0100prdak1(~Thunderbi@user/prdak) prdak
2026-03-11 16:31:45 +0100 <tomsmeding> I was somehow only thinking of LambdaCase etc., which are not
2026-03-11 16:31:30 +0100 <tomsmeding> yes you're right, for denotational semantics all that's important
2026-03-11 16:31:00 +0100 <tomsmeding> ... I guess that types are actually relevant, even in operational semantics, depending on how you model type class resolution
2026-03-11 16:30:15 +0100 <dminuoso> tomsmeding: What about things like all the type wizardry (TypeInType, TyFams, etc)?
2026-03-11 16:29:29 +0100 <tomsmeding> in operational semantics you can exclude GADTs because you don't need types at runtime, but in denotational semantics the point is to retain types
2026-03-11 16:28:49 +0100 <tomsmeding> hm, fair point
2026-03-11 16:28:20 +0100 <dminuoso> Dunno, I can think of a few extensions that have meaning like GADTs
2026-03-11 16:27:40 +0100 <tomsmeding> the rest is going to be either syntactic sugar or complex, ad-hoc stuff that doesn't enlighten anyone about anything
2026-03-11 16:27:02 +0100 <tomsmeding> I suspect that all that people actually care about is a semantics of Haskell98 without the FFI
2026-03-11 16:26:18 +0100 <dminuoso> Some researchers have published papers on this subject, but they were all to just subsets of GHC haskell. A related problem would be defining what Haskell even is in 2026 - what extensions should be included in a full denotational semantic of Haskell.
2026-03-11 16:26:10 +0100 <tomsmeding> dminuoso: what do you mean with "defines mathematical rigor"?
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2026-03-11 16:18:52 +0100 <dminuoso> The Haskell reports did some very vague attempts of denotational semantics, but in reality that term defines mathematical rigor - something nobody has ever done.
2026-03-11 16:17:51 +0100 <dminuoso> mesaoptimizer: Well, in reality it only has operational semantics as defined by whatever GHC does.
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2026-03-11 15:58:20 +0100 <tomsmeding> that sounds like a prompt you can give to GPT-4 :p
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