I'm very interested in the prop:struct-field-info property. Is there any documentation on it? I notice docs.racket-lang.org still says 7.7 up at the top.
Thanks to everyone for this release! On Monday, August 3, 2020 at 12:19:57 PM UTC-5 johnbclements wrote: > This release announcement mistakenly omitted two important contributors: > Tim Brown, and Dionna Amalie Glaze. Many thanks for their help! > > John Clements > > > On Aug 3, 2020, at 09:35, John Clements <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Racket version 7.8 is now available from > > > > https://racket-lang.org/ > > > > > > * Racket CS may become the default Racket implementation in the next > > release. With the improvements in this release, Racket CS provides all > > of the functionality of Racket BC (the current default > > implementation). If, between this release and the next, no bugs are > > discovered in Racket CS that are more serious than those typically > > discovered in Racket BC, then Racket CS will become the default for > > the next release. > > > > * Racket CS supports AArch32 and AArch64, including places and > > futures. The implementation should be considered experimental in this > > initial release. > > > > * Racket CS supports an "incremental" garbage-collection mode that can > > eliminate long GC pauses for some applications, such as animations and > > interactive games. > > > > * Racket CS unboxes local floating-point arithmetic (like Racket BC). > > > > * DrRacket's spell check features lower overhead and has fewer bugs. > > > > * Web Server performance under high concurrency is [better by up to an > > order of magnitude](https://github.com/racket/web-server/pull/94/). > > The Web Server is also more resistant to clients attempting to use > > unconstrained resources. > > > > * The math library includes the Kronecker product. > > > > * Windows supports finer granularity for `sleep` when sleeping for short > > periods of time, improving performance in animation. > > > > * The new prop:struct-field-info property provides static information > > about field names. > > > > * Debugging context in Racket CS is limited to 64,000 frames > > (approximately the same as Racket BC). This reduces the time taken to > > handle out-of-memory failures. > > > > * In `plot`, the legend font and the plot font can be controlled > > independently, and error-bars have an `#:invert?` option. > > > > * The plot and math libraries have new maintainers: Alex Harsányi for > > plot and Pavel Pancheka and Jens Axel Søgaard for math. > > > > > > The following people contributed to this release: > > > > Alex Harsányi, Alex Knauth, Alexander Shopov, Alexis King, Andrew Kent, > > Andrew Mauer-Oats, Atharva Raykar, Ben Greenman, Benjamin Yeung, Bert De > > Ketelaere, Bogdan Popa, David Christiansen, David Florness, Diego > > Crespo, Fred Fu, Gary Baumgartner, Georges Dupéron, Gustavo Massaccesi, > > J. Ian Johnson, Jack Firth, Jay McCarthy, Jens Axel Søgaard, Jesse > > Alama, John Clements, Laurent Orseau, Leif Andersen, Luka Hadži-Đokić, > > Marc, Matthew Butterick, Matthew Flatt, Matthew Parris, Matthew Turland, > > Matthias Felleisen, Michael Ballantyne, Mike Sperber, Noah W M, Paulo > > Matos, Pavel Panchekha, Philip McGrath, Raphael Das Gupta, Reuben > > Thomas, Ricardo Herdt, Robby Findler, Ryan Culpepper, Sam > > Tobin-Hochstadt, Sancho McCann, Sorawee Porncharoenwase, Spencer > > Florence, Stephen De Gabrielle, Syntacticlosure, frogbird, kryptine, > > rsiddharth, and yurkobb > > > > Feedback Welcome > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/c5c0ad1d-d8d5-43c3-bceb-228d89e1d16fn%40googlegroups.com.
