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Owen Lynch on Nostr: nprofile1q…4rrqe nprofile1q…eyqfl nprofile1q…ndand My beef with the lambda cube ...

My beef with the lambda cube (not sure if this is a similar beef) is that it puts an overly strong emphasis on being able to quantify over various things in *closed terms*, and thus misses that *judgments* (terms in a context) are the central object of study in type theory, and additionally the right model for the top-level bindings in a language. E.g. you can have top-level functions without having function types, and you can have top-level generic functions without having forall types. It took me a while to realize this.