Re: [racket-dev] Typed Racket and importing polymorphic code

2010-08-02 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi s...@cs.brown.edu wrote: 1'. That seems unlikely given that if I instead add insert to the above (#lang racket) source file and run Check Syntax, I get the same error -- so it is indeed a static error.   (Well, maybe not static, there are

Re: [racket-dev] Typed Racket and importing polymorphic code

2010-08-02 Thread Shriram Krishnamurthi
Arjun just pointed out to me that the inability to contract base values can lead to much harder-to-understand problems in higher-order contexts. (Not surprising, but I hadn't thought that that would make it much worse.) On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@ccs.neu.edu