I think I asked the wrong question, not only that but I guess I answered the question I asked, what I want to know is what exactly is a type hint. I think I've failed to understand exactly what a type hint is, I assumed to give a hint was to statically type something but that doesn't seem to be what happens here.
On Dec 30, 9:18 pm, Sunil S Nandihalli <sunil.nandiha...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think type hints lead to auto casting .. May be somebody else can > throw more light on it. And it is this way by design. > Sunil. > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Jarl Haggerty <fictivela...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > I have this function > > > (defn floor > > ^int [^float x] x) > > > and (floor 1.5) returns 1.5 which confuses me as to how type hints > > work, I was expecting the result to be truncated or for the program to > > spit out some exception about expecting an int and getting a float. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Clojure" group. > > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > > your first post. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
