[plt-dev] compound units and contracted signatures

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Tue May 19 23:09:36 EDT 2009

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Carl Eastlund <carl.eastlund at gmail.com> wrote:
> While we don't use units for these things a lot in Scheme, it's a use
> case that gets more and more realistic with things like (a) inferred
> linking, making units syntactically lighter weight, and (b) Typed
> Scheme, typed idioms necessitating this kind of instantiation more
> often.

Annoyances like those Philippe is mentioning are exactly why I don't
use units more often.

My 2 cents,

Jay

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