[racket-dev] [racket-bug] all/12434: match fails to signal type error?

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 9 17:14:25 EST 2011

On Dec 9, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote:

> but clearly some of us want to write quasi-ML in TR, but we can't without hacks like this.


ML's match plays a very different role in the process of type inference. We would have to change the language in HUGE way. 

If you really want quasi-ML, consider implementing the 17th version of parenthesized ML. Everyone who did abandoned it eventually. Perhaps that's a hint. 




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