Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <[email protected]>
writes:

> (assert x p?) is equivalent to (if (p? x) x (error ...)) except that
> the result is known to have the appropriate type (here `String').

Ah, OK, I think I see my mistake; is this the right way to put it?
Although the expression

(assert x string?)

has type String, and evaluates to the same value as `x' provided that
value is indeed a string, this does not mean that the expression `x' has
type String.

Thanks!

Richard

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