[racket] Argument type conventions

That's really cool. Nicely done.

Sam

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Jack Firth <jackhfirth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Following from a discussion on the list a few days ago, I’ve created a
> package for Typed Racket that lets you define function arguments to have
> some types by default, like so:
>
> #lang typed/racket
> (require type-conventions)
>
> (define-type Bit (U Zero One))
> (define-type-convention Bit bit)
>
> (define: (flip bit) : Bit
>   (if (zero? bit) 1 0))
>
> It keeps a table of conventions and provides a modified version of define:
> that extracts types based on the conventions table. Currently it supports
> typed keyword arguments, optional arguments, and rest arguments, as well as
> mixing explicitly typed arguments in with conventionally typed ones, even
> explicitly typed parameterized arguments. There’s some more functionality I
> want to implement, such as forms for anonymous functions and
> partially-applied functions, but it feels quite useful currently. The source
> is on Github here: https://github.com/JackFirth/type-conventions
>
> I haven’t yet added documentation, but “example.rkt” details the exported
> forms and how they work. If anyone has any suggestions for more
> improvements, let me know.
>
>
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