Re: [racket-dev] Apple today

2014-06-03 Thread Philippe Meunier
Matthias Felleisen wrote: >I should keep it around as a bad example. Speaking of bad examples, here's another one I randomly heard about today. It's about some floating point function written in C that didn't compute the correct result in some cases. When some people tried to figure out the reas

Re: [racket-dev] Apple today

2014-06-02 Thread Matthias Felleisen
This is the most nonsensical sentence I have seen in a long time. I should keep it around as a bad example. On Jun 2, 2014, at 8:45 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: > From the Ars Technica article, second paragraph: > > "Swift seems to get rid of Objective C's reliance on defined pointers; > instead, th

Re: [racket-dev] Apple today

2014-06-02 Thread Danny Yoo
>From the Ars Technica article, second paragraph: "Swift seems to get rid of Objective C's reliance on defined pointers; instead, the compiler infers the variable type, just as many scripting languages do." Is it just me, or is almost everything about this sentence technically wrong, except the p