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

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Wed Nov 2 17:31:36 EDT 2011

Just now, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> 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".

Defer to Neil: IIUC, it's not "full".


> >  - 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'.

Any reason?  (I've put it near the end since it's not really something
that has new functionality like the others in the `raco link'
neighborhood.)

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