[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.1.2

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 1 13:56:03 EDT 2011

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>
> On Monday, August 1, 2011, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>>> About a minute ago, Vincent St-Amour wrote:
>>>> - Typed Racket now optimizes at the REPL and inside typed regions.
>>>
>>> This sounds too uninteresting for most users.
>>
>> Have we run out of space for release notes?  This certainly isn't as
>> important as places, but I think we should err on the side of more
>> rather than less in the release notes.
>
> This doesn't make any sense to me so I expect people who read release notes
> will be even more confused.

Then we should clarify.  Does the following help?

The Typed Racket optimizer now applies to typed programs entered at
the REPL and inside of typed regions created by `with-type', not just
to modules written in the `typed/*' family of languages.

-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu



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