The new `racket/syntax' library contains facilities useful for writing macros. The `syntax/srcloc' and `syntx/location' libraries have been added for manipulating source locations.
The new `ffi/file' library is useful for writing foreign library bindings that cooperate with Racket's security guard mechanism. Ryan On 04/26/2011 01:46 PM, Jon Rafkind wrote:
Here are some suggested items for the 5.1.1 release announcement. Please respond with any additions/deletions. The stuff in parentheses are short git sha1's. Use 'git show 12ab345' to see the commit. ryan: * new ffi/file module (..needs description..) (9bc3457bb) matthew * Removed drscheme, mred, and mred.app although mred for unix still exists (8d9e10f34e) * The installed version of libffi can be used instead of the distributed version (f3c3bb4441c) * `touch' and `future' are safe functions to execute inside futures (857003378 3bf0f800a76) * A new streams library compatible with `for' has been added to the racket collection as `racket/stream' (e652546bf52) * list-box% now supports multi-column (137d96c08917) eli * chrome is a supported browser in drracket (52ca08a8a9a) * All 3rd party copyrighted code has had their licenses clarified or changed to be compatible with the LGPL (f6f7e4eb3502 a3d00a910afb) robby * Added a widget to the status line of DrRacket that can toggle line numbers (c4e0559db4ca37) * The module browser graph is rendered much faster. (e928bd840c02) * Added `overlay/align', `underlay/align', `overlay/align/offset' and 'underlay/align/offset' (c1668d894e210) stephen * The stepper now supports lazy racket (da456f2e37e54) kathy * Addition of `define-wish' to the teaching languages and corresponding addition of support for wishes in test reports and check-expects (7758f508c56) _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
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