[Monotone-devel] Re: Making vocab-from-string constructors explicit?

[Graydon Hoare]

Zack Weinberg wrote:

> > Does anyone have (good) reasons not to do this? I think it'd help us
> > keep the code clean.
>
> I tried to do this once before.  I found some real, if probably
> harmless, bugs doing it (things being converted to types they honestly
> weren't) and I think it's a great idea, but I gotta warn you that the
> fallout will be immense.  I gave up on it just because it was too much
> work.

Yeah, probably a lot of tedious work, but I'm in favour too.

-graydon