Josh is correct. I'm currently working on merging this work now that my
courses are over.

Thanks,
Ambrose

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Josh Tilles <j...@signafire.com> wrote:

> On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 5:36:53 PM UTC-4, Didier wrote:
>>
>> At Clojurewest 2016, Matthias Felleisen gave a great keynote about the
>> pragmatism of soundness for maintening large code bases. He mentioned that
>> adding type gradually was useful, but only when the border between typed
>> land and untyped land is guarded. He mentioned how Racket does that. He
>> also talked about the cost of doing so, which seem to remain an open
>> question.
>>
>> I'm wondering if any of this has been taken up by somebody in Clojure to
>> try to do the same? My understanding is typed clojure does not protect the
>> border between typed and untyped. Therefore, you do not have the guarantee
>> that your typed code will be correct for all its usage.
>>
> I believe that Ambrose (the core developer/maintainer of Typed Clojure)
> has been focusing on that very topic as of late: CTYP-309: “Export typed
> vars with contracts to untyped namespaces”
> <http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CTYP-309>.
>
>> Also, does anyone know exactly what he meant by the cost? Is doing
>> gradual typing causing slower runtimes, slower compilation, does it hamper
>> the dynamism, etc.
>>
>  I expect that dynamically-checked contracts would (at least) cause slower
> runtimes in the cases of untyped-calling-typed code or
> typed-calling-untyped code; I think typed-calling-typed code would skip the
> runtime contract verification.
>
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