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Add a type system #20

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@adamhaney

Python is dynamically typed. Which is great, but can lead to some rather frustrating bugs. Functional languages like Haskell make their type system an aid to a developer (instead of a hinderance like some statically typed languages).

I think it would be very interesting if lispy could enforce types (not sure if this should be optional or if a type configuration could take place as a part of a dialect so that a "typed" dialiect would require type annotations).

Typed racket (http://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/ts-guide.pdf) seems like a good starting point for such a system though research (and honestly writing more exploratory code in) into other strongly typed functional languages could be enlightening.

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