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Tweak the type alias docs to highlight the unsaturated example
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hackett-doc/scribblings/hackett/reference.scrbl

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@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ specified controls the fixity used by the associated @racket[type-constructor-id
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@(define alias-examples-eval (make-hackett-eval))
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@defform[#:literals [left right]
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(type type-clause type-expr)
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(type type-clause maybe-fixity-ann type-expr)
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#:grammar
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([type-clause name-id
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(code:line (name-id param-id ...+))]
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@racket[(name-id type-argument ...)]—and the resulting type is @racket[type-expr] with each
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@racket[param-id] substituted with the corresponding @racket[type-argument].
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Though the application of a type alias is syntactically similar to the application of a type
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constructor, type aliases are effectively type-level macros, and they may not be partially applied.
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All uses of a type alias must be fully saturated.
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@(hackett-examples
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#:eval alias-examples-eval
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(type (Predicate a) {a t:-> t:Bool})
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(def zero? : (Predicate t:Integer) (== 0))
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(#:type zero?)
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(eval:check (zero? 0) True)
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(eval:check ((: zero? (Predicate t:Integer)) 0) True)
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(eval:check ((: zero? (Predicate t:Integer)) 0) True))
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Though the application of a type alias is syntactically similar to the application of a type
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constructor, type aliases are effectively type-level macros, and they may not be partially applied.
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All uses of a type alias must be fully saturated.
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@(hackett-examples
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#:eval alias-examples-eval
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(eval:error (: zero? Predicate)))
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@(close-eval alias-examples-eval)}
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