On 26/02/2008, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Actually I didn't understand Colin's statement that you couldn't use as=
>  in this context, Colin, did you mean that was a restriction in the
>  language or just of gesalt?

Both.

That is, the language doesn't allow you to specify a type of two
booleans followed by an integer, for example.

But you could do this via a user-defined type in a schema-aware
processor. And Gestalt is not schema-aware.