Type tailoring – adding domain-specific type checkers to a typed host languageblog.racket-lang.org 28 pointsLearn2win9 years ago1 commentSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−tonyg9yThis is such a cool idea.One potential application is doing something like F#'s type providers for typed access to a SQL database.You could use `trivial` to get fully typed SELECT statements integrated with Typed Racket.In fact, Ben has already done some thinking along these lines: section 3.6 of http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/types/cv/failures/icfp-2016-reje... sketches out the idea, and there is some stubbed-out code in the `trivial` git repo waiting to be dusted off.
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This is such a cool idea.
One potential application is doing something like F#'s type providers for typed access to a SQL database.
You could use `trivial` to get fully typed SELECT statements integrated with Typed Racket.
In fact, Ben has already done some thinking along these lines: section 3.6 of http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/types/cv/failures/icfp-2016-reje... sketches out the idea, and there is some stubbed-out code in the `trivial` git repo waiting to be dusted off.