[racket-dev] missing negation in guide for places?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 30 07:36:31 EDT 2011

Yes, you are correct.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:25 PM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
> It sure looks to me like this sentence from the docs is missing a really important "not":
>
> The consequence of this second feature is that place should appear immediately in a module or in a function that is called in a module’s top level; otherwise, invoking the module will invoke the same module in a new place, and so on, triggering a cascade of place creations that will soon exhaust memory.
>
> I'm guessing this should read:
>
> The consequence of this second feature is that place should *NOT* appear immediately in a module or in a function that is called in a module’s top level; otherwise, invoking the module will invoke the same module in a new place, and so on, triggering a cascade of place creations that will soon exhaust memory.
>
> Is this correct? I'll change it if so, and apologies if this has already been fixed.
>
> John
>
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