[racket-dev] Math library initial commit almost ready; comments on issues welcome

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at gmail.com> wrote:
> The only bit that bothers me is the (begin (not (flonum-wrapper? x)) ...)
> stuff left lying around after TR's optimizer eliminates the branches in the
> expansions of `fw+'. IIRC, they cause futures to sync, but I'm going to
> believe that they won't always - or will be optimized away - just so I can
> have a decent solution to the typed macro problem.

This code is left around because TR can't prove that `not` and
`flonum-wrapper?` are pure functions.  Eventually, TR should include a
purity analysis that can fix this, but it can't do that now.

The fact that basically all structure operations are future-unsafe is
a bigger issue.  I talked to James about it at ICFP, but I don't know
what would be required to improve the situation.
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu