On Monday, August 1, 2011, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <<a href="mailto:samth@ccs.neu.edu">samth@ccs.neu.edu</a>> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Eli Barzilay <<a href="mailto:eli@barzilay.org">eli@barzilay.org</a>> 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. >>> - Typed Racket now provides a command-line static performance >>> debugging tool. >> >> It is? In any case, I'd prefer announcing it when the whole thing is >> ready, ... > > Typed Racket does, in the release, provide exactly that. Should it > not be announced because it will get better in the future? > >>> A DrRacket-based graphical version will be >>> available in the next release. >> >> ... and avoid pre-announcements for future features. > > The reason that we wanted to include this is that Vincent demo'd this > feature at RacketCon; the sentence clarifies for anyone who saw or > heard about this when it will be available, and that it isn't the > version of the feature provided in 5.1.2. I agree with Eli here too. But I don't have a strong opinion. >>> Unrelated to TR: >>> - A high-level interface to Racket's logging facilities is now >>> available in `unstable/logging'. >> >> So far there were no announcements about anything in `unstable', and I >> like to keep it out of the very public announcements. (Unrelated to >> posting about it privately as a process to consider moving things >> out.) > > This is something that lots of people have asked for, and feedback > from them on the interface would be useful while it's still in > development. I agree with Eli on this one. As on the users mailing list. > -- > sam th > <a href="mailto:samth@ccs.neu.edu">samth@ccs.neu.edu</a> > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev">http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev</a> >