On 7/27/10 11:17 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below. Please send edits or (changes in order) if you see anything.
* Changes (as part of 5.0) in the `racket' language compared to the `scheme' language include constructor-style printing, a `struct' alternative to `define-struct' that fits more naturally with `match' and constructor-style printing, bytecode-dependency management via SHA-1 hashes instead of just timestamps, and a reorganization of `scheme/foriegn' into `ffi/unsafe' and associated libraries.
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* The core type system of Typed Racket has been substantially revised. In particular, Typed Racket can now follow significantly more sophisticated reasoning about the relationships between predicates. Additionally, Typed Racket now allows variable arity types in more places, allowing programmers to specify variable-arity lists.
substantially, significantly, sophisticated Weasel words. http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/
* Typed Racket now provides a type-based optimizer that is activated when the code starts with `#:optimize'. It can improve the performance of many operations such as list, vector and struct accesses and is especially useful for floating-point intensive programs (which can get faster by a factor of 3). This is feature is still being developed, and it will become the default behavior in the near future.
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* The `generator' from `racket/generator' is requires to have this form: (generator () body ...), due to a planned extension where a generator will accept arguments.
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