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Hmm, maybe

> most type theories don't enforce full parametricity at runtime

means "sometimes types can appear at run time"? If so it's true, but it's not what I understand by "parametricity".



Not sure, either : Parametric polymorphism is compile time. Adding runtime behaviors is a sort of escape hatch.

Which is fair although necessary. It's not so much a breakage as it is a necessity, since non parametric code may rely on this too.

Or maybe it is about constrained parametricity. In any case this doesn't seem a big issue.




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