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Re: [Chicken-hackers] deprecation of always?, never?, none?


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] deprecation of always?, never?, none?
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:02:06 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Felix scripsit:

> "none?" is sort of weird, since there is no "none" type - every object
> is of some type.

Sure it's a type, just as the null set is a set.  What's more, Chicken's
native type lattice isn't the only type lattice that a program might be
interested in.

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