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Fri Oct 24 18:35:21 EDT 2003 
Dirk Thierbach <dthierbach at gmx.de> writes:

> Yep. It turns out that you take away lots of bogus programs, and the
> sane programs that are taken away are in most cases at least questionable
> (they will be mostly of the sort: There is a type error in some execution
> branch, but this branch will never be reached), and can usually be 
> expressed as equivalent programs that will pass.

I don't understand why you think that most of them will be `dead code'.

I don't understand why a smart type checker would complain about dead
code.
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