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The paragraph I edited in this chapter of the manual on types confused me when I was a Julia newbie, and I still find it confusing. How do type annotations simplify a program? Improve performance? I rewrote it to state the purpose of type annotations more accurately,

The paragraph I edited in this chapter of the manual on types confused me when I was a Julia newbie, and I still find it confusing.  How do type annotations simplify a program?  Improve performance?  I rewrote it to state the purpose of type annotations more accurately,
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Your version is better. The intention of the original text was that expression program logic is simpler and easier with dispatch.

@StefanKarpinski StefanKarpinski merged commit acb1898 into JuliaLang:master Mar 3, 2018
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* origin/master: (28 commits)
  fix an optimizer bug in `invoke` with non-constant functions (#26301)
  lower top-level statements in such a way that the front-end knows (#26304)
  Make sure Sockets page has h1 header (#26315)
  fix doctests, and make them less prone to errors (#26275)
  FIx intro to manual chapter on types (#26312)
  Add a missing "that" (#26313)
  fix docstring for code_llvm (#26266)
  Remove the examples/ folder (#26153)
  download cert.pem from deps-getall, fixes #24903 (#25344)
  Slight update to doc string for at-enum to refer to instances (#26208)
  performance tweak in reverse(::String) (#26300)
  remove references to `TCPSocket` in Base docstrings (#26298)
  Deprecate adding integers to CartesianIndex (#26284)
  Deprecate conj(::Any), add real(::Missing) and imag(::Missing) (#26288)
  fix #26267, regression in `names` with `imported=false` (#26293)
  fix #25857, `typeinfo` problem in showing arrays with abstract tuple types (#26289)
  Add adjoint(::Missing) method (#25502)
  Use lowered form in logging macro (#26291)
  deprecate bin, oct, dec, hex, and base in favor of `string` and keyword args (#25804)
  deprecate `spawn(cmd)` to `run(cmd, wait=false)` (#26130)
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