40 minutes ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > > `with-type' sounds too specific to be broadly applicable. > > `with-type' allows embedding typed regions inside arbitrary other > blocks of untyped code -- it's certainly generally applicable.
I know what it does -- I meant specific in terms of people who use it. (It's also a question in general, since you might gain some cpu via optimizations, but there's currently a sizable cost for the boundary.) > > (And BTW, there *is* limited space for release notes -- otherwise > > these discussions would never happen.) > > There's certainly limited space for the most prominent elements of > the release notes. But I think the right solution there is to pick > some small number of items (say, 5) that are most significant, and > highlight them. Right -- and our release notes are roughly equivalent to these 5 items. > Then much more can be included below that, and finally some > information about minor changes (fixed bugs, for example). The git > release notes are an example of this style: > http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt The git process is very similar to what we do -- for the top items. For the rest, they tend to keep more organized commit messages and/or change logs that make generating such lists easier. In any case, I have no opinion about a new format (at least not for now), but discussing such changes should happen *after* this release goes out. -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev