[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.2, second call

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 2 17:28:28 EDT 2011

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:

> * The `plot' collection has been reimplemented in Racket.  It now
>  offers PDF output, log axes, histograms, and more.  Some code that
>  uses `plot' will still work, and some will need light porting.
>  The `plot/compat' module offers expedient backward compatibility.

"offers full backward compatibility".

>  - Function definitions with optional arguments now work.

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>  - Typed Racket now supports defining function with optional
>    arguments using the same syntax as Racket.

> * Fixed several GUI problems, including problems on Ubuntu 11.10
>  (GTK+ 3) and 64-bit Mac OS X.

This should go right after 'raco link'.
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sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu



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