[racket] `require/typed` with a parameterized struct

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 6 17:40:23 EST 2014

This makes no sense. Parametric polymorphism is a syntactic concept (think for-all quantifier). It's sad enough that we export such things from typed to untyped modules (for pragmatic reasons, in violation of a fundamental GT assumption). -- Matthias





On Dec 6, 2014, at 5:00 PM, Benjamin Greenman wrote:

> The typed racket reference shows how to require/typed a struct from an untyped program [1]. I'd like to generalize this example to a struct with a type parameter.
> 
> Here is the code I would like to write. How can I get this to type check?
> 
> #lang racket/base
> 
> (module UNTYPED racket/base
>   (struct Tree (elem left right))
>   (provide (struct-out Tree)))
> 
> (module TYPED typed/racket/base
>   (require/typed 'UNTYPED
>                  [#:struct (A) Tree
>                    ([elem : A]
>                     [left : Tree A]
>                     [right : Tree A])]))
> 
> [1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-reference/special-forms.html#%28form._%28%28lib._typed-racket%2Fbase-env%2Fprims..rkt%29._require%2Ftyped%29%29
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