Version: 5.3
1 Type Reference
Any Racket value. All other types are subtypes of
Any.
The empty type. No values inhabit this type, and
any expression of this type will not evaluate to a value.
1.1 Base Types
1.1.1 Numeric Types
These types represent the hierarchy of numbers of Racket.
Number and
Complex are synonyms. This is the most general
numeric type, including all Racket numbers, both exact and inexact, including
complex numbers.
Includes Racket’s exact integers and corresponds to the
exact-integer? predicate. This is the most general type that is still
valid for indexing and other operations that require integral values.
Includes Racket’s double-precision (default) floating-point numbers and
corresponds to the
flonum? predicate. This type excludes
single-precision floating-point numbers.
Includes Racket’s single-precision floating-point numbers and corresponds to
the
single-flonum? predicate. This type excludes double-precision
floating-point numbers.
Includes all of Racket’s floating-point numbers, both single- and
double-precision.
Includes Racket’s exact rationals, which include fractions and exact integers.
Includes all of Racket’s real numbers, which include both exact rationals and
all floating-point numbers. This is the most general type for which comparisons
(e.g.
<) are defined.
These types correspond to Racket’s complex numbers.
The above types can be subdivided into more precise types if you want to
enforce tighter constraints. Typed Racket provides types for the positive,
negative, non-negative and non-positive subsets of the above types (where
applicable).
These types are useful when enforcing that values have a specific
sign. However, programs using them may require additional dynamic checks when
the type-checker cannot guarantee that the sign constraints will be respected.
In addition to being divided by sign, integers are further subdivided into
range-bounded types.
One includes only the integer
1.
Byte includes
numbers from
0 to
255.
Index is bounded by
0 and by the length of the longest possible Racket
vector.
Fixnum includes all numbers represented by Racket as machine
integers. For the latter two families, the sets of values included in the types
are architecture-dependent, but typechecking is architecture-independent.
These types are useful to enforce bounds on numeric values, but given the
limited amount of closure properties these types offer, dynamic checks may be
needed to check the desired bounds at runtime.
Examples: |
| > 7 | - : Integer [generalized from Positive-Byte] | 7 | | > 8.3 | - : Flonum [generalized from Positive-Flonum] | 8.3 | | > (/ 8 3) | - : Exact-Rational [generalized from Positive-Exact-Rational] | 8/3 | | > 0 | - : Integer [generalized from Zero] | 0 | | > -12 | - : Integer [generalized from Negative-Fixnum] | -12 | | > 3+4i | - : Exact-Number | 3+4i |
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1.1.2 Other Base Types
These types represent primitive Racket data.
Examples: |
| > #t | - : Boolean [generalized from True] | #t | | > #f | - : False | #f | | > "hello" | - : String | "hello" | | > (current-input-port) | - : Input-Port | #<input-port:string> | | > (current-output-port) | - : Output-Port | #<output-port:string> | | > (string->path "/") | - : Path | #<path:/> | | > #rx"a*b*" | - : Regexp | #rx"a*b*" | | > #px"a*b*" | - : PRegexp | #px"a*b*" | | > '#"bytes" | - : Bytes | #"bytes" | | > (current-namespace) | - : Namespace | #<namespace:0> | | > #\b | - : Char | #\b | | > (thread (lambda () (add1 7))) | - : Thread | #<thread> |
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The union of the
Path and
String types. Note that this does not
match exactly what the predicate
path-string?
recognizes. For example, strings
that contain the character
#\nul have the type
Path-String but
path-string? returns
#f for those strings. For a complete specification
of which strings
path-string? accepts, see its
documentation.
1.2 Singleton Types
Some kinds of data are given singleton types by default. In
particular, booleans, symbols, and keywords have types which
consist only of the particular boolean, symbol, or keyword. These types are
subtypes of Boolean, Symbol and Keyword, respectively.
Examples: |
| > #t | - : Boolean [generalized from True] | #t | | > '#:foo | - : #:foo | '#:foo | | > 'bar | - : Symbol [generalized from 'bar] | 'bar |
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1.3 Containers
The following base types are parameteric in their type arguments.
is the
pair containing
s as the
car
and
t as the
cdrExamples: |
| > (cons 1 2) | - : (Pairof One Positive-Byte) | '(1 . 2) | | > (cons 1 "one") | - : (Pairof One String) | '(1 . "one") |
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is the type of the list with one element, in order,
for each type provided to the
List type constructor.
(List t ... trest ... bound)
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is the type of a list with
one element for each of the
ts, plus a sequence of elements
corresponding to
trest, where
bound
must be an identifier denoting a type variable bound with
....
Examples: |
| > (list 'a 'b 'c) | - : (Listof (U 'a 'b 'c)) [generalized from (List 'a 'b 'c)] | '(a b c) | | > (map symbol->string (list 'a 'b 'c)) | - : (Listof String) [generalized from (Pairof String (Listof String))] | '("a" "b" "c") |
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Example: |
| > (box "hello world") | - : (Boxof String) | '#&"hello world" |
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is the type of the list with one element, in order,
for each type provided to the
Vector type constructor.
Examples: |
| > (vector 1 2 3) | - : (Vector Integer Integer Integer) | '#(1 2 3) | | > #(a b c) | - : (Vector Symbol Symbol Symbol) | '#(a b c) |
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is the type of a
hash table with key type
k and value type
v.
Example: |
| > #hash((a . 1) (b . 2)) | - : (HashTable Symbol Integer) | '#hash((b . 2) (a . 1)) |
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is the type of a
set of
t.
Example: |
| > (set 0 1 2 3) | - : (Setof Byte) | (set 0 1 2 3) |
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A
channel on which only
ts can be sent.
A
parameter of
t. If two type arguments are supplied,
the first is the type the parameter accepts, and the second is the type returned.
Example: |
| > (delay 3) | - : (Promise Positive-Byte) | #<promise:eval:35:0> |
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A
future which produce a value of type
t when touched.
A
sequence that produces values of
type
t on each iteration.
1.4 Syntax Objects
The following types represent syntax objects and their content.
A syntax object with content of type
t.
Applying
syntax-e to a value of type
(Syntaxof t) produces a
value of type
t.
1.5 Other Type Constructors
(dom ... -> rng)
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| (dom ... rest * -> rng) |
| (dom ... rest ... bound -> rng) |
| (dom -> rng : pred) |
is the type of functions from the (possibly-empty)
sequence
dom ... to the
rng type. The second form
specifies a uniform rest argument of type
rest, and the
third form specifies a non-uniform rest argument of type
rest with bound
bound. In the third form, the
second occurrence of
... is literal, and
bound
must be an identifier denoting a type variable. In the fourth form,
there must be only one
dom and
pred is the type
checked by the predicate.
Examples: |
| > (λ: ([x : Number]) x) | - : (Number -> Number : ((! False @ 0) | (False @ 0)) (0)) | #<procedure> | | > (λ: ([x : Number] y : String *) (length y)) | - : (Number String * -> Index) | #<procedure> | | > ormap | - : (All (a c b ...) ((a b ... b -> c) (Listof a) (Listof b) ... b -> (U False c))) | #<procedure:ormap> | | > string? | - : (Any -> Boolean : String) | #<procedure:string?> |
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is the supertype of all function types.
is the union of the types
t ....
Example: |
| > (λ: ([x : Real])(if (> 0 x) "yes" 'no)) | - : (Real -> (U String 'no) : (Top | Bot)) | #<procedure> |
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is a function that behaves like all of
the
fun-tys, considered in order from first to last. The
fun-tys must all be function
types constructed with
->.
is the instantiation of the parametric type
t at types
t1 t2 ...
is a parameterization of type
t, with
type variables
v .... If
t is a function type
constructed with
->, the outer pair of parentheses
around the function type may be omitted.
Examples: |
| > (: list-length : (All (A) (Listof A) -> Natural)) | | | | | > (list-length (list 1 2 3)) | - : Integer [generalized from Exact-Nonnegative-Integer] | 3 |
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is the type of a sequence of multiple values, with
types
t .... This can only appear as the return type of a
function.
Example: |
| > (values 1 2 3) | - : (Values Integer Integer Integer) [generalized from (Values One Positive-Byte Positive-Byte)] | |
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where v is a number, boolean or string, is the singleton type containing only that value
where val is a Racket value, is the singleton type containing only that value
where i is an identifier can be a reference to a type
name or a type variable
is a recursive type where n is bound to the
recursive type in the body t
is a type which is a supertype of all instances of the
potentially-polymorphic structure type
st. Note that structure
accessors for
st will
not accept
(Struct st) as an
argument.
1.6 Other Types
Either t or #f
A type constructed using require-opaque-type.