// Hacker Noon · 4 March 2026

Why Judgmental Equality Fails Under Defunctionalization

This article examines the tension between judgmental equality and defunctionalization in dependently typed languages. While α-β and η-equality are standard in many systems, they fail to hold once functions are transformed into data constructors. The paper proposes a middle-ground solution: assigning...

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