[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.3, second draft

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 1 14:12:48 EDT 2012

Whatever. 


On Aug 1, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Neil Toronto wrote:

> Eli had a problem with calling it a "Typed Racket API", because it could connote that it's only available for Typed Racket programs. I agree with him. It doesn't hurt to repeat that it's easy to use TR libraries in untyped code, especially for official libraries.
> 
> I prefer to have "images/flomap" somewhere in there so the library is easy to find, so I think a good short version would be:
> 
> The new `images/flomap' library defines floating-point bitmaps and fast image processing operations on them. It is written in Typed Racket, so Typed Racket code may use it without the cost of contract checks.
> 
> Neil ⊥
> 
> On 08/01/2012 09:09 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>> 
>> How about
>> 
>>  * The Typed Racket API for fast floating-point bitmaps (flomaps)
>>    supports a range of image process operations. See docs for details.
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 1, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
>> 
>>> How about this:
>>> 
>>> * The API for fast floating-point bitmaps (flomaps) supports image
>>>    processing operations. It is written in Typed Racket, so Typed
>>>    Racket code may use it without the cost of contract checks.
>>> 
>>> ?
>>> 
>>> Robby
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 08/01/2012 05:34 AM, Ryan Culpepper wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> * The API for fast floating-point bitmaps (flomaps) supports image
>>>>>   processing operations, including pointwise arithmetic, gradients,
>>>>>   blur, resizing with correct downsampling, arbitrary spatial
>>>>>   transformations, and pict-like combiners.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> This needs to mention Typed Racket. How about this?
>>>> 
>>>> The new `images/flomap' library defines floating-point images and fast
>>>> operations on them, including pointwise arithmetic, gradients, blur,
>>>> resizing with correct downsampling, arbitrary spatial transformations, and
>>>> pict-like combiners. It is written in Typed Racket, so Typed Racket code may
>>>> use it without the cost of contract checks.
>>>> 
>>>> Neil ⊥
>>>> 
>>>> 
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