[racket] using struct-copy with struct subtypes?

Unfortunately, you can't really do this in a general way for structs.

There are a couple possible solutions:
 - use objects/classes and implement a `clone` or a `replace` method
 - use generics, with a `clone` or `replace` generic function

Sam

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Matthew Butterick <mb at mbtype.com> wrote:
> This seems rudimentary, but I can't figure it out. `struct-copy` requires you to specify the id of the struct type, like so:
>
> (define copied-struct (struct-copy struct-type-id instance-of-struct))
>
> The docs for struct-copy say "subtypes can be copied as if they were supertypes, but the result is an instance of the supertype". [1]
>
> OK, but suppose I want the opposite behavior: I want to make a struct-copying function that accepts instances of a supertype or subtype, but outputs a struct that's the same type as the input instance (not the supertype).
>
> Possible? Or not possible with structs, because that's what objects & classes are for?
>
>
> [1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/struct-copy.html
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