[racket-dev] release blurb for 5.1.1

From: Ryan Culpepper (ryanc at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 26 18:04:40 EDT 2011

On 04/26/2011 03:45 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
> I think the only possible ones for me (where "me" in the first line
> really means "Carl") that makes it into the big announcement are:
>
>   - PLaneT development links are now version-specific

I think this deserves a mention.

What about parametric contracts? Or other contract changes?

Ryan



>   - Added `overlay/align', `underlay/align', `overlay/align/offset' and
> 'underlay/align/offset' to 2htdp/image
>
> but I'm fine if neither get mentioned.
>
> Robby
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Eli Barzilay<eli at barzilay.org>  wrote:
>> More things:
>>
>> Casey:
>>   - Redex version of Jay's continuation mark transformation (3250ff84)
>>   - Other redex news?
>>
>> Vincent:
>>   - TR's numeric tower is now built from unions of non-overlapping base
>>     types.  (d4c93cc1)
>>
>> Vincent/Sam: other TR news?
>>
>> Vincent/Matthew: single precision flonums?
>>
>> Matthew:
>>   - `file/resource'?
>>   - Recent speed thing.
>>
>> Robby:
>> - make hard links be version specific (4f165d3b)?
>> - 2htdp/image news?
>> - builds on osx 64 bits
>>
>> James/Matthew: futures news?  (future semaphores, `future' in future,
>>   more ...)
>>
>> Generators have formals (generator formals body ...+)
>>
>> Ryan: `racket/syntax' etc
>>
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