[racket-dev] [plt] Push #25419: master branch updated

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 5 22:28:56 EDT 2012

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> A few minutes ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>> On Oct 5, 2012 9:16 PM, "Eli Barzilay" <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > 10 minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote:
>> > > Oh, right. Duh.
>> > >
>> > > And even better, IMO, if it were futures-visualizer/typed/* were
>> > > a place you could put this information.
>> >
>> > Yeah -- that would make distribution much easier, since it will be
>> > another global convention, like `tests' and `scribblings'.
>>
>> I would like to keep things in the `typed' collection.  This
>> maintains the symmetry with `typed/racket.  The other conventions
>> like 'tests' are not externally visible.
>
> Yes, the required name would change -- but it's still much saner in
> terms of authorship & maintenance than me having to keep a file in
> your collection.

I agree with this and I think earlier emails suggested that Sam
doesn't trust others to write types for their libraries.

Also, Sam: can you explain what "externally visible" means in this context?

Robby

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