Re: Same label in different types, how do people solve this?

[John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>]

Chet Murthy wrote:

> The issue, about practicality, isn't whether you _can_ specify the
> particular types and type-usages you want.  The issue is whether, if
> you write a phrase, and you got it wrong, you have to know all about
> the type system, in order to debug that phrase.

It is a tradeoff. Full inference makes code short: lack of
inference severely pollutes programming style (as in C++).
In Felix, I compromised: functions must be explicitly typed
when declared, but values don't:

	function f(a:int): int { val b = a; return b; }

f must be explicitly typed. The type of b is deduced.
Compare with

	let f a = let b = a in b;;

The explicit typing of functions avoids a need for
a full scale type inference algorithm. 

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