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I'm pretty sure that's just "administrative" and imposed by the syntax (e.g. think Java/C++ function declaration syntax), instead of being something the compile

I'm pretty sure that's just "administrative" and imposed by the syntax (e.g. think Java/C++ function declaration syntax), instead of being something the compiler can't infer. Thanks for clearing this up, though.

steveklabnik 9y ago
It was a design decision, yes. We could infer them if we wanted to, but we don't.