Mail me if you have any last-minute changes. Also, Sam: I need that improved entry.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- * PLT now supports multi-core parallelism via futures. Futures create tasks that run in parallel, as long as the tasks stay in the "fast path" of the runtime system. For more information, see: http://tinyurl.com/futuresguide . * Our unit testing framework, schemeunit, is now included in the distribution. A graphical test runner is available via schemeunit/gui. * New Russian and Ukranian translations, thanks to Sergey Semerikov. * The support languages for the "Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation" textbook by Shriram Krishnamurthi are now part of PLT Scheme. In addition the PLAI GC language comes with a random mutator generator (to help test collectors) and an improved heap visualizer. * The Scheme-implemented bytecode reader, writer, and decompiler is now more compatible with the C-implemented bytecode reader and writer. * The `scheme/class' library now provides contract combinators for classes (`class/c') and objects (`object/c'). See the Reference and Guide for details. Also, a backwards-compatible `object-contract' version of `object/c' has replaced the old `object-contract' combinator. * Writing new kinds of contracts is now easier with keyword-based constructors (`make-contract' and `make-flat-contract'), a simpler set of structure properties (`prop:contract' and `prop:flat-contract'), and the introduction of blame objects for tracking contract metadata. * A number of improvements to Redex's typesetting facilities. * The language dialog now suggests using "#lang" more strongly as the default language. DrScheme no longer uses the term `Module language'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
