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		djacobs on Oct 19, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask PG: Lisp vs Python (2010) One question I've had about Typed Racket since I first saw it: why all the colons? Seems to mess with the elegance of Lisp, and especially Scheme. There has to be another friendlier syntax for typing, no?

manu3000 on Oct 20, 2010 [–]

why not ? colons are used to denotes values type in ML

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