[plt-dev] Release Announcement for v4.2.5

I don't think you need to mention me. :) but you could also mention the new GUI?

Robby

On Thursday, April 1, 2010, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>> Possible items (dug up from log messages):
>>
>> Robby:
>>  - New language dialog layout
>>
>> Matthew:
>>  - Futures are on by default
>>  - wrap each top-level form in a module with a prompt (if visible
>>    enough)
>>  - basic set library
>>  - things from r18375, if visible enough
>>  - scribble/jfp
>>
>> * Noel, Ryan:
>>  - schemeunit is now included (gui revived?)
>>
>> * Sam:
>>  - Add `define-predicate'; add `with-type' for defintions; New TS
>>    guide.  (Maybe more?)
>>
>> * Casey:
>>  - redex extensions? random testing?
>>
>> * Matthias:
>>  - release events? other universe stuffs?
>>
>> * Jay:
>>  - Adding PLAI software to the core
>>  - r18130, if there's anything visible
>
> The support languages for the "Programming Languages: Application and
> Interpretation" textbook by Shriram Krishnamurthi are now part of PLT
> Scheme. In addition, a random mutator generator for testing garbage
> collectors was added by Robby Findler.
>
> The Scheme-implemented bytecode reader, writer, and decompiler is now
> more compatible with
> the C-implemented bytecode reader and writer.
>
>>
>> * Ryan:
>>  - misc syntax-parse additions (r17937, and probably more)
>>
>> * Carl:
>>  - contract stuff (r18009 and probably more)
>>
>> * Stevie:
>>  - class contracts?
>>
>> Sketch items:
>>
>> * New Russian and Ukranian translations, thanks to Sergey Semerikov
>>
>> * Generators now support producing multiple values (by giving
>>  sending multiple input values to `yield') and consuming multiple
>>  values (by sending values to the generator function) which turn to
>>  the results of `yield' in the generator.  The `generator' form has
>>  changed and requires to have a (generator () body ...) form, and
>>  in the future this will be used for bindings to initial values
>>  when the generator is first invoked.
>>
>> --
>>          ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay:
>>                    http://barzilay.org/                   Maze is Life!
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