[opentheory-users] article format wording about constants

Joe Hurd joe at gilith.com
Sat Jan 15 23:12:56 UTC 2011


Hi Ramana,

> So why does constTerm take 2 arguments instead of just 1?
> Is it just to allow you to instantiate type variables that might be in
> the constant on the stack?

Since constants are solely determined by name (and do not contain any
type information), you also have to provide a type argument to turn a
constant into a term.

Cheers,

Joe



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