[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.3, third draft

When you have a huge enumeration, like we do here, I think importance is extremely difficult to evaluate for a reasonably large audience but topics are easy to group. If you don't mind, let's leave it alone. 



On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Matthias Felleisen
> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Why? They are currently grouped according to features, e.g., class contracts and class abstract, and placed into adjacent groups, e.g., classes next to generics.
> 
> I attempted to order them by (my impression of) importance to Racket
> programmers.  For example, the new error messages are likely to be the
> first thing people notice about v5.3.
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>> 
>>> I think the below should be somewhat reordered, as follows:
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Ryan Culpepper <ryan at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>>>> * Most error messages use a new multi-line format
>>>> * The new `racket/generic' library
>>>> * The contract library comes with support for
>>>> * The futures visualizer
>>>> * Optimization Coach
>>>> * Typed Racket supports function definitions with keyword arguments
>>>> * A new `json' library
>>>> * The `class' form supports declaring a method abstract.
>>>> * The new `images/flomap' library
>>>> * `racket/string' is extended
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> 
> -- 
> sam th
> samth at ccs.neu.edu

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