[racket-dev] Constructing an identifier to an unexported binding

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu May 23 09:39:06 EDT 2013

On May 23, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

>> 2. Is it possible that we could solve the problem via a bootstrapping-only violation of our policy that you can add types to Racket w/o modifying existing modules?
> 
> No. We can't specify types inside `racket/base` without making `racket/base` depend on Typed Racket.


1. I was proposing a fundamental change to the language, with an eye toward Racket 2. 

2. I was also proposing an experiment that temporarily creates such a dependency and we can then look for a refactoring that breaks the dependency again but in a way that supports the proper access to these base identifiers. 





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