[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.3, third draft

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> Why? They are currently grouped according to features, e.g., class contracts and class abstract, and placed into adjacent groups, e.g., classes next to generics.

I attempted to order them by (my impression of) importance to Racket
programmers.  For example, the new error messages are likely to be the
first thing people notice about v5.3.

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> On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
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>> I think the below should be somewhat reordered, as follows:
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>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Ryan Culpepper <ryan at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>>> * Most error messages use a new multi-line format
>>> * The new `racket/generic' library
>>> * The contract library comes with support for
>>> * The futures visualizer
>>> * Optimization Coach
>>> * Typed Racket supports function definitions with keyword arguments
>>> * A new `json' library
>>> * The `class' form supports declaring a method abstract.
>>> * The new `images/flomap' library
>>> * `racket/string' is extended
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>> sam th
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