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aw1621107last Sunday at 11:03 PM1 replyview on HN

I think it's meant to be parsed as "I liked being able to (express (calling external libraries))", not "I liked being able to (express calling) (external libraries)"


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pvsnplast Monday at 4:53 PM

Yes. Probably could’ve written it better but I’ve not poked around F* in a while and I was writing on my phone. Say you’re calling an external function implementation in hardware, being able to express those interfaces as external makes it viable to use F* vs assuming everything is open source and introspectable.