[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1

On 7/27/10 11:17 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below.  Please
> send edits or (changes in order) if you see anything.

> * Changes (as part of 5.0) in the `racket' language compared to the
>    `scheme' language include constructor-style printing, a `struct'
>    alternative to `define-struct' that fits more naturally with
>    `match' and constructor-style printing, bytecode-dependency
>    management via SHA-1 hashes instead of just timestamps, and a
>    reorganization of `scheme/foriegn' into `ffi/unsafe' and
>    associated libraries.

foriegn

> * The core type system of Typed Racket has been substantially
>    revised.  In particular, Typed Racket can now follow significantly
>    more sophisticated reasoning about the relationships between
>    predicates.  Additionally, Typed Racket now allows variable arity
>    types in more places, allowing programmers to specify
>    variable-arity lists.

substantially, significantly, sophisticated

Weasel words.
http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/


> * Typed Racket now provides a type-based optimizer that is activated
>    when the code starts with `#:optimize'.  It can improve the
>    performance of many operations such as list, vector and struct
>    accesses and is especially useful for floating-point intensive
>    programs (which can get faster by a factor of 3).  This is feature
>    is still being developed, and it will become the default behavior
>    in the near future.

This is feature is...

> * The `generator' from `racket/generator' is requires to have this
>    form: (generator () body ...), due to a planned extension where a
>    generator will accept arguments.

is requires