[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.2

On Nov 2, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> 
>> * The new db library offers a high-level, functional interface to
>>  popular relational database systems, including PostgreSQL, MySQL,
>>  and SQLite, as well as other systems via ODBC.
> 
> I think this should go first, ahead of XREPL.

++1++


> 
>> * Typed Racket:
>>  - Typed Racket provides static performance debugging support to
>>    show which code gets optimized and point out code that does not.
>>    Use the "Performance Report" button.
> 
> add "in DrRacket" at the end here.
> 
>>  - Function definitions with optional arguments now work.
> 
> Replace with "Typed Racket now supports defining function with
> optional arguments using the same syntax as Racket".
> 
>> * Fixed several GUI problems.
> 
> This should explicitly mention Ubuntu 11.10/GTK3, and go ahead of most
> of the others.
> 
>> * DrRacket comes with an experimental, on-line check syntax
>>  function.  By default, it is turned off.  To turn it on, right
>>  click on the red circle in the buttom right corner of the DrRacket
>>  window.  Warning: turning this on makes DrRacket less stable.
> 
> This belongs in the major items category -- it's certainly more
> significant than the changes to Typed Racket, for example.
> 
>> * The Algol language implementation is now available as other
>>  languages, use `#lang algol60' for Algol code.
> 
> The "as" here is confusing.
> 
>> * The `typed-scheme' collection was renamed to `typed-racket'.
> 
> This doesn't even belong in the release notes -- it has no user-visible impact.
> -- 
> sam th
> samth at ccs.neu.edu
> 
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