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No. To have dependent types the values the types depend on must be runtime constants, not compile time constants.


Strictly speaking, dependently-typed languages don't even have a clear-cut phase separation between "compile time" and "run time" (other than via "code extraction" to a non-dependently typed language as an add-on feature). It's clear however that the Rust const-generics 'MVP' is quite far from the flexibility of full dependent types.




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