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From: Greg Hendershott (greghendershott at gmail.com)
Date: Fri May 23 17:59:19 EDT 2014

Feedback from a relatively naive Racket user:

1.

> +External effects are exemplified by input/output (or I/O). I/O is the
> +action of a function such as @racket[tcp-connect], which communicates
> +with the operating system to send network packets outside of the
> +machine running Racket via the electromagnetic spectrum.

It might be OK to omit "via the electromagnetic spectrum". Yes I'm
aware of RFC 1149. But still.  :)


2.

> +In particular, if module A is shared by the phase 1 portion of modules
> +X and Y, then any internal effects while X is compiled are not visible
> +during the compilation of Y, regardless of whether X and Y are
> +compiled during the same Racket runtime system.

Was "system" supposed to be "session"?


3. The practical example goes some way toward explaining why this
matters. But only part way (for me). Probably some real-life situation
motivated this. Knowing that backstory might help. (If you think that
tale doesn't fit and/or belong in the reference docs, maybe it would
make a great blog post?)

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