This page is part of the web mail archives of SRFI 77 from before July 7th, 2015. The new archives for SRFI 77 contain all messages, not just those from before July 7th, 2015.
Taylor Campbell scripsit:
> While type declarations are useful (though I *abhor* the :: syntax),
> limiting declarations solely to types, I think, is not, and they do
> not usefully subsume semantic distinctions, which may go deeper than
> simply coercing values here & there, and which should be provided in
> the form of different procedures with different semantics; e.g., the
> (MODULAR-ADDER n) &c. procedures I suggested earlier. Declarations
> are useful to have, such as (DECLARE ARRAY-INDEX FOO BAR-ARRAY), but
> I think they are really out of the scope of this SRFI.
+1
--
Eric Raymond is the Margaret Mead John Cowan
of the Open Source movement. jcowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
--Bruce Perens, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
some years ago http://www.reutershealth.com