[plt-scheme] Re: Call for Participation: Writing Typed Scheme wrapper modules

At the very least, ((Listof String) -> String) should be expressible.

--Carl

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Sam TH <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> This is a type that you cannot currently express in Typed Scheme.  It
> might be in the future, but in the meantime you should write the most
> expressive type you can for `string-append*'.  If there's no useful
> type, make a note of that in the file, and don't handle
> `string-append*'.
>
> Thanks,
> sam th
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:59 PM, harsha <harsha.v.r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I started doing scheme/string, but ran into a difficulty when typing
>> string-append*
>> Its argument list is a list of strings except the last element which
>> itself is a list of strings.
>> So the argument list has type (Listof* String)
>> where,
>> (define-type-alias (Listof* Elt-type)
>>  (Rec T (U [Pair Elt-type T]
>>            [Pair (Listof Elt-type) '()])))
>>
>> except that -> type constructor doesn't let you play with the argument
>> list directly, but the individual arguments,
>> of the 4 cases listed in the reference documentation for ->, cases 1
>> and 4 only allow finitely many arguments,
>>  but case 2 has a uniform rest argument, and case 3 is somewhat
>> confusing to me (as to what exactly the bound parameter is upto).