On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Ovid wrote:

I don't want to turn off the type checks. I would just like some of them to be 
warnings if we're in production.

I agree completely with the *concept* of the strict type constraints, but 


  "In theory, theory and practice are the same.
  In practice, we're trying to comb spaghetti."
  Abraham Lincoln, 1912 speech to the Republican Women's De-emancipation 
Convention

If a hotel's "short description" must be no longer than 200 characters, they would much prefer to have the first 200 characters of their hotel's 250-character description displayed rather than nothing.

You can use coercions to do this, can't you? You could even warn inside the coercion.


-dave

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