<div>Sam, are you referring to this text?</div><div><br></div><div> The any/c contract is similar to any, in that it makes no demands on</div><div> a value. Unlike any, any/c indicates a single value, and it is</div><div>
suitable for use as an argument contract.</div><div><br></div><div>This would seem to suggest that any is actually more general, because</div><div>any/c seems to require a single value whereas any (by implication)</div>
<div>permits more or less than one. This is compounded by the later text:</div><div><br></div><div> Use any/c as a result contract when it is particularly important to</div><div> promise a single result from a function. Use any when you want to</div>
<div> promise as little as possible (and incur as little checking as</div><div> possible) for a function's result.</div><div><br></div><div>which again points to a single/any-number-of value(s) distinction.</div><div>
<br></div><div>But then in his email Robby says</div><div><br></div><div> As for the any/c vs any: they are two separate things. "any/c" is</div><div> general purpose contract that allows anything. "any" is special</div>
<div> syntax that is only allowed inside function contracts. You can think</div><div> of "any" as a more restricted form of "any/c" and that's 95% of the</div><div> story.</div><div><br></div><div>
which I have difficulty reconciling with the docs quotes.</div><div><br></div><div>Shriram</div>