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On 10 May 2013 21:05, Andreas Rossberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10 May 2013 14:52, Mark S. Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>> An upper case type variable, e.g. T, is fully parametric. It may be a
>> promise or non-promise.
>> A lower case type variable, e.g. t, is constrained to be a non-promise. If
>> you wish to think in conventional type terms, consider Any the top type
>> immediately split into Promise and non-promise. Thus type parameter t is
>> implicitly constrained to be a subtype of non-promise.
>
> Mark, I'm afraid such a distinction makes absolutely no sense in a
> world of structural types. How would you specify the set of "types
> that aren't promises" in a way that is compatible with structural
> subtyping?
>
> /Andreas
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