Module Name:	doc
Committed By:	jschauma
Date:		Sat Aug 31 20:32:33 UTC 2002

Modified Files:
	doc: pkg-CHANGES

Log Message:
Note update of lang/drscheme to current version 202.

Changes since our last version (103) include (but obviously
are not limited to):

New Homepage http://www.drscheme.org

drscheme:
- removed 'project manager' (use 'module' instead)
- added profiling support
- support for different natural languages
- added module browser
- added XML boxes
- new menu-items
- improved error message output
- added an emacs-like c-x c-b feature
- improved documentation
- teachpacks support macro definitions
- now prints exact real numbers as graphical fractions
- misc bug fixes
- improved create executable interface
- improved interaction between help desk and external browser

mred:
- many new key- and mouse events
- various changes (additions and removals) of different methods
- Added 'unknown/mask and 'unknown/gif bitmap types
- New load handler, text-editor-load-handler

mzscheme:
- new module system
-  No object or unit system is built into MzScheme.
- The core syntax system is hygienic;
- Modules can replace units where units are used merely for namespace
  control
- The `struct' form is gone, replaced by a more flexible
  `make-struct-type' form
- various process procedures have been moved to a new
  MzLib library, "process.ss"
- The built-in regular-expression matcher works on input ports
- The mzc compiler supports a subset of the Gambit-C foreign-function
  interface

teachpack:
- Fixed bug in convert.ss
- removed: pingp-play.ss pingp.ss protect-play.ss rectangle.ss
- all exported functions are primitive operators or higher order primitives
  this improves error reporting behavior in the Beginner languages
- added servlet.ss and servlet2.ss

stepper:
- Total rewrite for new syntax. Addition of test suites.
  Addition of somewhat more systematic macro unwinding.
  Lots of bug fixes.


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