2011/9/21 Thorsten Wilms <t...@freenet.de>

> On 09/21/2011 01:51 AM, Laurent PETIT wrote:
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>> I would see no problem of e.g. having a way to explicitly declare, in
>> the "public interface of the function" (as opposed to "derived
>> implicitly from the current implementation detail of the function") the
>> necessary constraints on the function arguments. And the guarantees on
>> the function's result.
>>
>> Those could then allow more checks at compile time, without sacrificing
>> genericity of the code.
>>
>
> Something like Racket's contracts, perhaps?
> http://pre.racket-lang.org/**docs/html/guide/contracts.html<http://pre.racket-lang.org/docs/html/guide/contracts.html>
>

Contracts are indeed a generalization of constraints on type properties


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