[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.0.1 -- final version

From: Jay McCarthy (jay at plt-scheme.org)
Date: Mon Aug 2 06:42:41 EDT 2010

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Aug  2, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>> On Aug 2, 2010, at 6:11 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>>
>> > And for the (near) future -- figure out what's happenning in the
>> >  teaching languages.  I get the impression that things are moving
>> >  there almost randomly.
>>
>> No, this isn't random; it is unsynchronized:
>
> (Yeah, I used "random" in a random sense...)
>
>>  -- Shriram asked Jay to add define-datatype
>
> (and hashes? was there more?)

define-datatype, match, hashes

These are the commits:

http://github.com/plt/racket/commit/407dcee206678785b4b87bb513d7ba5f55ad8ab5

http://github.com/plt/racket/commit/eeada45868d73c02b59f5c1ecd16e414d5a114ac

http://github.com/plt/racket/commit/9eb053d4db1efd2881e1f749ad6b1eb12a6e8152

>
>>  -- Robby, Mike, and I decided to move signatures into BSL, ...
>>       but I underestimated when I'd get to the translation of
>>       the documentation
>>
>> So:
>>
>> 1. I propose to release as is: no addition to ASL, no docs for signatures
>>
>> 2. I propose to sync at PLT Day, in person.
>
> OK -- that leaves messes #1 (are Jay's changes included or not?) and
> #2 (test it properly) to sort out.
>
> --
>          ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay:
>                    http://barzilay.org/                   Maze is Life!
>



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Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://teammccarthy.org/jay

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