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It's not false, it's just unspecified. If you hand me scheme I can provide it a unitype system without conflict. If you hand me Haskell I cannot because the language has explicitly said that uncheckable statements are invalid.

You can of course go further with your static analysis—a language may support many type systems in principle regardless of what the compiler accepts.



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