Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] small scrutinizer enhancement

[Peter Bex]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 09:45:18AM +0200, Felix wrote:
> Thanks - turns out there was a bug: the type-matching of the typeset
> elements must be "precise" to handle subtypes, consider:
> 
> (let ((a (the (or string number) ...)))
>   (if (fixnum? a)
>       ...                 ; a : fixnum
>       ...))               ; a : (or number string) <- "number" is supertype 
> of "fixnum"

Thanks for explaining a little more about the scrutinizer, and
fixing the bug.

Cheers,
Peter
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