[racket-dev] 5.0.2 changelog

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 28 09:03:29 EDT 2010

I agree!

Robby

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Oct 28, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>
>> At Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:40:27 -0600, Jon Rafkind wrote:
>>> Author: Matthew Flatt <mflatt at racket-lang.org>
>>>    Modules spliced at the file level instead of collection level.
>>>    Internal definitions for `when', `unless', `cond', `case', and `match'
>>>    #true and #false forms
>>
>> None seem especially worth mentioning, but the internal-definition
>> change could be mentioned if we need more to Say:
>>
>> * The `when', `unless', `cond', `case', and `match' forms (in
>>   `racket/base' and derived languages) now allow immediate internal
>>   definitions.
>
>
> Just for the record: allowing internal definitions all over the place and mixing them properly with expressions has been one of the best small changes of the decade.
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