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News articles are now placed in separate pages.
Also given each rst file its rightful extension.
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@@ -217,8 +217,8 @@ proc parseIniFile(c: var TConfigData) =
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of "ticker": c.ticker = v
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of "documentation":
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case normalize(k.key)
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of "doc": addFiles(c.doc, "doc", ".txt", split(v, {';'}))
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of "pdf": addFiles(c.pdf, "doc", ".txt", split(v, {';'}))
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of "doc": addFiles(c.doc, "doc", ".rst", split(v, {';'}))
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of "pdf": addFiles(c.pdf, "doc", ".rst", split(v, {';'}))
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of "srcdoc": addFiles(c.srcdoc, "lib", ".nim", split(v, {';'}))
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of "srcdoc2": addFiles(c.srcdoc2, "lib", ".nim", split(v, {';'}))
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of "webdoc": addFiles(c.webdoc, "lib", ".nim", split(v, {';'}))
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@@ -406,9 +406,9 @@ proc generateRss(outputFilename: string, news: seq[TRssItem]) =
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output.write("""</feed>""")
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proc buildNewsRss(c: var TConfigData, destPath: string) =
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# generates an xml feed from the web/news.txt file
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# generates an xml feed from the web/news.rst file
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let
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srcFilename = "web" / "news.txt"
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srcFilename = "web" / "news.rst"
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destFilename = destPath / changeFileExt(splitFile(srcFilename).name, "xml")
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generateRss(destFilename, parseNewsTitles(srcFilename))
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@@ -441,9 +441,38 @@ proc buildSponsors(c: var TConfigData, sponsorsFile: string, outputDir: string)
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else:
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quit("[Error] Cannot write file: " & outFile)
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const
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cmdRst2Html = "nim rst2html --compileonly $1 -o:web/$2.temp web/$2.rst"
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proc buildPage(c: var TConfigData, file, rss: string, assetDir = "") =
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exec(cmdRst2Html % [c.nimArgs, file])
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var temp = "web" / changeFileExt(file, "temp")
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var content: string
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try:
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content = readFile(temp)
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except IOError:
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quit("[Error] cannot open: " & temp)
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var f: File
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var outfile = "web/upload/$#.html" % file
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if not existsDir(outfile.splitFile.dir):
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createDir(outfile.splitFile.dir)
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if open(f, outfile, fmWrite):
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writeLine(f, generateHTMLPage(c, file, content, rss, assetDir))
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close(f)
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else:
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quit("[Error] cannot write file: " & outfile)
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removeFile(temp)
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proc buildNews(c: var TConfigData, newsDir: string, outputDir: string) =
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for kind, path in walkDir(newsDir):
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let (dir, name, ext) = path.splitFile
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if ext == ".rst":
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buildPage(c, tailDir(dir) / name, "", "../")
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else:
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echo("Skipping file in news directory: ", path)
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proc buildWebsite(c: var TConfigData) =
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const
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cmd = "nim rst2html --compileonly $1 -o:web/$2.temp web/$2.txt"
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if c.ticker.len > 0:
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try:
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c.ticker = readFile("web" / c.ticker)
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@@ -453,26 +482,11 @@ proc buildWebsite(c: var TConfigData) =
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var file = c.tabs[i].val
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let rss = if file in ["news", "index"]: extractFilename(rssUrl) else: ""
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if '.' in file: continue
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exec(cmd % [c.nimArgs, file])
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var temp = "web" / changeFileExt(file, "temp")
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var content: string
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try:
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content = readFile(temp)
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except IOError:
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quit("[Error] cannot open: " & temp)
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var f: File
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var outfile = "web/upload/$#.html" % file
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if not existsDir("web/upload"):
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createDir("web/upload")
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if open(f, outfile, fmWrite):
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writeLine(f, generateHTMLPage(c, file, content, rss))
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close(f)
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else:
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quit("[Error] cannot write file: " & outfile)
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removeFile(temp)
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buildPage(c, file, rss)
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copyDir("web/assets", "web/upload/assets")
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buildNewsRss(c, "web/upload")
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buildSponsors(c, sponsors, "web/upload")
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buildNews(c, "web/news", "web/upload/news")
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proc main(c: var TConfigData) =
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buildWebsite(c)
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@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
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#? stdtmpl | standard
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#proc generateHTMLPage(c: var TConfigData, currentTab, content, rss: string): string =
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#proc generateHTMLPage(c: var TConfigData, currentTab, content, rss,
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# rootDir = ""): string =
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# result = ""
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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html>
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<head>
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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<title>${currentTab} - $c.projectTitle</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="assets/style.css?t=2221" />
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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="assets/images/favicon.ico">
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="${rootDir}assets/style.css?t=2221" />
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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="${rootDir}assets/images/favicon.ico">
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#if len(rss) > 0:
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<link href="$rss" title="Recent changes" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate">
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#end if
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@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@
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<div id="bountysource">
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<a href="https://salt.bountysource.com/teams/nim">
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<div class="page-layout" style="padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 30pt">
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<img src="assets/bountysource/bountysource.png" style="width: 20px; float: left;">
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<img src="${rootDir}assets/bountysource/bountysource.png" style="width: 20px; float: left;">
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<span style="margin-left: 10pt; float: left; margin-top: 2pt;">Fund Nim and help us develop it further!</span>
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<img src="https://api.bountysource.com/badge/team?team_id=19072&style=raised" style="margin-top: 2pt; margin-left: 10pt"/>
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</div>
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@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@
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<header id="head">
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<div class="page-layout tall">
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<div id="head-logo"></div>
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<a id="head-logo-link" href="index.html"></a>
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<a id="head-logo-link" href="${rootDir}index.html"></a>
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<nav id="head-links">
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#for i in 0.. c.tabs.len-1:
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# let t = c.tabs[i].val
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@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@
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# if t.contains('.'):
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href="${t}" title = "$c.projectName - $name">$name</a>
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# else:
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href="${t}.html" title = "$c.projectName - $name">$name</a>
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href="${rootDir}${t}.html" title = "$c.projectName - $name">$name</a>
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# end if
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# end if
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#end for
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@@ -61,12 +62,12 @@
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<!-- slides -->
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<div id="slide0" class="active niaslide">
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<a href="sponsors.html">
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<img src="assets/bountysource/meet_sponsors.png" alt="Meet our BountySource sponsors!"/>
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<img src="${rootDir}assets/bountysource/meet_sponsors.png" alt="Meet our BountySource sponsors!"/>
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</a>
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</div>
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<div id="slide1" class="niaslide">
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<a href="news.html#Z2016-01-27-nim-in-action-is-now-available">
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<img src="assets/niminaction/banner.jpg" alt="New in Manning Early Access Program: Nim in Action!"/>
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<img src="${rootDir}assets/niminaction/banner.jpg" alt="New in Manning Early Access Program: Nim in Action!"/>
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</a>
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</div>
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<div id="slide2" class="codeslide2">
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@@ -156,7 +157,7 @@ runForever()
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# if len(c.ticker) > 0:
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<h3 class="blue">Latest News</h3>
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<div id="sidebar-news">
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$c.ticker
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${c.ticker % rootDir}
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</div>
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# end if
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</aside>
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@@ -200,7 +201,7 @@ runForever()
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</footer>
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# if currentTab == "index":
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<script src="assets/index.js"></script>
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<script src="${rootDir}assets/index.js"></script>
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# end if
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# if c.gaId != nil:
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<script>
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@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ pre .end { background:url("images/tabEnd.png") no-repeat left bottom; }
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background:url("images/glow-line2.png") no-repeat right; }
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#content { padding:40px 0; line-height:150%; }
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#content.page { width:680px; min-height:800px; padding-left:20px; }
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#content.page { width:680px; min-height:1220px; padding-left:20px; }
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#content h1 { font-size:20pt; letter-spacing:1px; color:rgba(0,0,0,.75); }
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#content h2 { font-size:16pt; letter-spacing:1px; color:rgba(0,0,0,.7); margin-top:40px; }
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#content p { text-align:justify; }
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@@ -605,3 +605,12 @@ dt a, dt a:visited, dt a:hover {
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dt.level-1 {
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color: #2f2f2f !important;
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}
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/* News articles */
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.metadata {
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font-size: 12pt;
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margin-bottom: 20pt;
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margin-top: -16pt;
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color: #4f4f4f;
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}
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111
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====
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News
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====
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`2016-01-27 Nim in Action is now available! <news/2016_01_27_nim_in_action_is_now_available.html>`_
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==================================
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`2016-01-18 Version 0.13.0 released <news/2016_01_18_version_0_13_0_released.html>`_
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==================================
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`2016-01-18 Andreas Rumpf's talk at OSCON Amsterdam <news/2016_01_18_andreas_rumpfs_talk_at_oscon_amsterdam.html>`_
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==================================================
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`2015-10-27 Version 0.12.0 released <news/2015_10_27_version_0_12_0_released.html>`_
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==================================
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`2015-10-16 First Nim conference <news/2015_10_16_first_nim_conference.html>`_
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===============================
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`2015-05-04 Version 0.11.2 released <news/2015_05_04_version_0_11_2_released.html>`_
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==================================
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`2015-04-30 Version 0.11.0 released <news/2015_04_30_version_0_11_0_released.html>`_
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==================================
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`2014-12-29 Version 0.10.2 released <news/2014_12_29_version_0_10_2_released.html>`_
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==================================
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`2014-10-19 Version 0.9.6 released <news/2014_10_19_version_0_9_6_released.html>`_
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=================================
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`2014-04-21 Version 0.9.4 released <news/2014_04_21_version_0_9_4_released.html>`_
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=================================
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`2014-02-11 Nimrod Featured in Dr. Dobb's Journal <news/2014_02_11_nimrod_featured_in_dr_dobbs_journal.html>`_
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================================================
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`2014-01-15 Andreas Rumpf's talk on Nimrod at Strange Loop 2013 is now online <news/2014_01_15_andreas_rumpfs_talk_on_nimrod.html>`_
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============================================================================
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`2013-05-20 New website design! <news/2013_05_20_new_website_design.html>`_
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==============================
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`2013-05-20 Version 0.9.2 released <news/2013_05_20_version_0_9_2_released.html>`_
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=================================
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`2012-09-23 Version 0.9.0 released <news/2012_09_23_version_0_9_0_released.html>`_
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=================================
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`2012-02-09 Version 0.8.14 released <news/2012_02_09_version_0_8_14_released.html>`_
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==================================
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`2011-07-10 Version 0.8.12 released <news/2011_07_10_version_0_8_12_released.html>`_
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==================================
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`2010-10-20 Version 0.8.10 released <news/2010_10_20_version_0_8_10_released.html>`_
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==================================
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`2010-03-14 Version 0.8.8 released <news/2010_03_14_version_0_8_8_released.html>`_
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=================================
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`2009-12-21 Version 0.8.6 released <news/2009_12_21_version_0_8_6_released.html>`_
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=================================
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2009-10-21 Version 0.8.2 released
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=================================
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2009-09-12 Version 0.8.0 released
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=================================
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2009-06-08 Version 0.7.10 released
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==================================
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2009-05-08 Version 0.7.8 released
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=================================
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2009-04-22 Version 0.7.6 released
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=================================
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2008-11-16 Version 0.7.0 released
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=================================
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2008-08-22 Version 0.6.0 released
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=================================
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Nimrod version 0.6.0 has been released!
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**This is the first version of the compiler that is able to compile itself!**
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2009-12-21 Version 0.8.6 released
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=================================
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.. container:: metadata
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Posted by Andreas Rumpf on 21/12/2009
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The version jump from 0.8.2 to 0.8.6 acknowledges the fact that all development
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of the compiler is now done in Nimrod.
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Bugfixes
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--------
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- The pragmas ``hint[X]:off`` and ``warning[X]:off`` now work.
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- Method call syntax for iterators works again (``for x in lines.split()``).
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- Fixed a typo in ``removeDir`` for POSIX that lead to an infinite recursion.
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- The compiler now checks that module filenames are valid identifiers.
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- Empty patterns for the ``dynlib`` pragma are now possible.
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- ``os.parseCmdLine`` returned wrong results for trailing whitespace.
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- Inconsequent tuple usage (using the same tuple with and without named fields)
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does not crash the code generator anymore.
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- A better error message is provided when the loading of a proc within a
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dynamic lib fails.
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Additions
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---------
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- Added ``system.contains`` for open arrays.
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- The PEG module now supports the *search loop operator* ``@``.
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- Grammar/parser: ``SAD|IND`` is allowed before any kind of closing bracket.
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This allows for more flexible source code formating.
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- The compiler now uses a *bind* table for symbol lookup within a ``bind``
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context. (See `<manual.html#templates>`_ for details.)
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- ``discard """my long comment"""`` is now optimized away.
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- New ``--floatChecks: on|off`` switches and pragmas for better debugging
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of floating point operations. (See
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`<manual.html#pre-defined-floating-point-types>`_ for details.)
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- The manual has been improved. (Many thanks to Philippe Lhoste!)
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Changes affecting backwards compatibility
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-----------------------------------------
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- The compiler does not skip the linking step anymore even if no file
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has changed.
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- ``os.splitFile(".xyz")`` now returns ``("", ".xyz", "")`` instead of
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``("", "", ".xyz")``. So filenames starting with a dot are handled
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differently.
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- ``strutils.split(s: string, seps: set[char])`` never yields the empty string
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anymore. This behaviour is probably more appropriate for whitespace splitting.
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- The compiler now stops after the ``--version`` command line switch.
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- Removed support for enum inheritance in the parser; enum inheritance has
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never been documented anyway.
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- The ``msg`` field of ``system.E_base`` has now the type ``string``, instead
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of ``cstring``. This improves memory safety.
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Version 0.8.8 released
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======================
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.. container:: metadata
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Posted by Andreas Rumpf on 14/03/2010
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Bugfixes
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--------
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- The Posix version of ``os.copyFile`` has better error handling.
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- Fixed bug #502670 (underscores in identifiers).
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- Fixed a bug in the ``parsexml`` module concerning the parsing of
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``<tag attr="value" />``.
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- Fixed a bug in the ``parsexml`` module concerning the parsing of
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enities like ``<XX``.
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- ``system.write(f: TFile, s: string)`` now works even if ``s`` contains binary
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zeros.
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- Fixed a bug in ``os.setFilePermissions`` for Windows.
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- An overloadable symbol can now have the same name as an imported module.
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- Fixed a serious bug in ``strutils.cmpIgnoreCase``.
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- Fixed ``unicode.toUTF8``.
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- The compiler now rejects ``'\n'`` (use ``"\n"`` instead).
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- ``times.getStartMilsecs()`` now works on Mac OS X.
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- Fixed a bug in ``pegs.match`` concerning start offsets.
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- Lots of other little bugfixes.
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Additions
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- Added ``system.cstringArrayToSeq``.
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- Added ``system.lines(f: TFile)`` iterator.
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- Added ``system.delete``, ``system.del`` and ``system.insert`` for sequences.
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- Added ``system./`` for int.
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- Exported ``system.newException`` template.
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- Added ``cgi.decodeData(data: string): tuple[key, value: string]``.
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- Added ``strutils.insertSep``.
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- Added ``math.trunc``.
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- Added ``ropes`` module.
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- Added ``sockets`` module.
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- Added ``browsers`` module.
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- Added ``httpserver`` module.
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- Added ``httpclient`` module.
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- Added ``parseutils`` module.
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- Added ``unidecode`` module.
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- Added ``xmldom`` module.
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- Added ``xmldomparser`` module.
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- Added ``xmltree`` module.
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- Added ``xmlparser`` module.
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- Added ``htmlparser`` module.
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- Added ``re`` module.
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- Added ``graphics`` module.
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- Added ``colors`` module.
|
||||
- Many wrappers now do not contain redundant name prefixes (like ``GTK_``,
|
||||
``lua``). The old wrappers are still available in ``lib/oldwrappers``.
|
||||
You can change your configuration file to use these.
|
||||
- Triple quoted strings allow for ``"`` in more contexts.
|
||||
- ``""`` within raw string literals stands for a single quotation mark.
|
||||
- Arguments to ``openArray`` parameters can be left out.
|
||||
- More extensive subscript operator overloading. (To be documented.)
|
||||
- The documentation generator supports the ``.. raw:: html`` directive.
|
||||
- The Pegs module supports back references via the notation ``$capture_index``.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Changes affecting backwards compatibility
|
||||
-----------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Overloading of the subscript operator only works if the type does not provide
|
||||
a built-in one.
|
||||
- The search order for libraries which is affected by the ``path`` option
|
||||
has been reversed, so that the project's path is searched before
|
||||
the standard library's path.
|
||||
- The compiler does not include a Pascal parser for bootstrapping purposes any
|
||||
more. Instead there is a ``pas2nim`` tool that contains the old functionality.
|
||||
- The procs ``os.copyFile`` and ``os.moveFile`` have been deprecated
|
||||
temporarily, so that the compiler warns about their usage. Use them with
|
||||
named arguments only, because the parameter order will change the next
|
||||
version!
|
||||
- ``atomic`` and ``let`` are now keywords.
|
||||
- The ``\w`` character class for pegs now includes the digits ``'0'..'9'``.
|
||||
- Many wrappers now do not contain redundant name prefixes (like ``GTK_``,
|
||||
``lua``) anymore.
|
||||
- Arguments to ``openArray`` parameters can be left out.
|
||||
70
web/news/2010_10_20_version_0_8_10_released.rst
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70
web/news/2010_10_20_version_0_8_10_released.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
|
||||
Version 0.8.10 released
|
||||
=======================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Andreas Rumpf on 20/10/2010
|
||||
|
||||
Bugfixes
|
||||
--------
|
||||
|
||||
- Bugfix: Command line parsing on Windows and ``os.parseCmdLine`` now adheres
|
||||
to the same parsing rules as Microsoft's C/C++ startup code.
|
||||
- Bugfix: Passing a ``ref`` pointer to the untyped ``pointer`` type is invalid.
|
||||
- Bugfix: Updated ``keyval`` example.
|
||||
- Bugfix: ``system.splitChunk`` still contained code for debug output.
|
||||
- Bugfix: ``dialogs.ChooseFileToSave`` uses ``STOCK_SAVE`` instead of
|
||||
``STOCK_OPEN`` for the GTK backend.
|
||||
- Bugfix: Various bugs concerning exception handling fixed.
|
||||
- Bugfix: ``low(somestring)`` crashed the compiler.
|
||||
- Bugfix: ``strutils.endsWith`` lacked range checking.
|
||||
- Bugfix: Better detection for AMD64 on Mac OS X.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Changes affecting backwards compatibility
|
||||
-----------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Reversed parameter order for ``os.copyFile`` and ``os.moveFile``!!!
|
||||
- Procs not marked as ``procvar`` cannot only be passed to a procvar anymore,
|
||||
unless they are used in the same module.
|
||||
- Deprecated ``times.getStartMilsecs``: Use ``epochTime`` or ``cpuTime``
|
||||
instead.
|
||||
- Removed ``system.OpenFile``.
|
||||
- Removed ``system.CloseFile``.
|
||||
- Removed ``strutils.replaceStr``.
|
||||
- Removed ``strutils.deleteStr``.
|
||||
- Removed ``strutils.splitLinesSeq``.
|
||||
- Removed ``strutils.splitSeq``.
|
||||
- Removed ``strutils.toString``.
|
||||
- If a DLL cannot be loaded (via the ``dynlib`` pragma) ``EInvalidLibrary``
|
||||
is not raised anymore. Instead ``system.quit()`` is called. This is because
|
||||
raising an exception requires heap allocations. However the memory manager
|
||||
might be contained in the DLL that failed to load.
|
||||
- The ``re`` module (and the ``pcre`` wrapper) now depend on the pcre dll.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Additions
|
||||
---------
|
||||
|
||||
- The ``{.compile: "file.c".}`` pragma uses a CRC check to see if the file
|
||||
needs to be recompiled.
|
||||
- Added ``system.reopen``.
|
||||
- Added ``system.getCurrentException``.
|
||||
- Added ``system.appType``.
|
||||
- Added ``system.compileOption``.
|
||||
- Added ``times.epochTime`` and ``times.cpuTime``.
|
||||
- Implemented explicit type arguments for generics.
|
||||
- Implemented ``{.size: sizeof(cint).}`` pragma for enum types. This is useful
|
||||
for interfacing with C.
|
||||
- Implemented ``{.pragma.}`` pragma for user defined pragmas.
|
||||
- Implemented ``{.extern.}`` pragma for better control of name mangling.
|
||||
- The ``importc`` and ``exportc`` pragmas support format strings:
|
||||
``proc p{.exportc: "nim_$1".}`` exports ``p`` as ``nim_p``. This is useful
|
||||
for user defined pragmas.
|
||||
- The standard library can be built as a DLL. Generating DLLs has been
|
||||
improved.
|
||||
- Added ``expat`` module.
|
||||
- Added ``json`` module.
|
||||
- Added support for a *Tiny C* backend. Currently this only works on Linux.
|
||||
You need to bootstrap with ``-d:tinyc`` to enable Tiny C support. Nimrod
|
||||
can then execute code directly via ``nimrod run myfile``.
|
||||
122
web/news/2011_07_10_version_0_8_12_released.rst
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122
web/news/2011_07_10_version_0_8_12_released.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
|
||||
Version 0.8.12 released
|
||||
==================================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Andreas Rumpf on 10/07/2011
|
||||
|
||||
Bugfixes
|
||||
--------
|
||||
|
||||
- Bugfix: ``httpclient`` correct passes the path starting with ``/``.
|
||||
- Bugfixes for the ``htmlparser`` module.
|
||||
- Bugfix: ``pegs.find`` did not respect ``start`` parameter.
|
||||
- Bugfix: ``dialogs.ChooseFilesToOpen`` did not work if only one file is
|
||||
selected.
|
||||
- Bugfix: niminst: ``nimrod`` is not default dir for *every* project.
|
||||
- Bugfix: Multiple yield statements in iterators did not cause local vars to be
|
||||
copied.
|
||||
- Bugfix: The compiler does not emit very inaccurate floating point literals
|
||||
anymore.
|
||||
- Bugfix: Subclasses are taken into account for ``try except`` matching.
|
||||
- Bugfix: Generics and macros are more stable. There are still known bugs left
|
||||
though.
|
||||
- Bugfix: Generated type information for tuples was sometimes wrong, causing
|
||||
random crashes.
|
||||
- Lots of other bugfixes: Too many to list them all.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Changes affecting backwards compatibility
|
||||
-----------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Operators starting with ``^`` are now right-associative and have the highest
|
||||
priority.
|
||||
- Deprecated ``os.getApplicationFilename``: Use ``os.getAppFilename`` instead.
|
||||
- Deprecated ``os.getApplicationDir``: Use ``os.getAppDir`` instead.
|
||||
- Deprecated ``system.copy``: Use ``substr`` or string slicing instead.
|
||||
- Changed and documented how generalized string literals work: The syntax
|
||||
``module.re"abc"`` is now supported.
|
||||
- Changed the behaviour of ``strutils.%``, ``ropes.%``
|
||||
if both notations ``$#`` and ``$i`` are involved.
|
||||
- The ``pegs`` and ``re`` modules distinguish between ``replace``
|
||||
and ``replacef`` operations.
|
||||
- The pointer dereference operation ``p^`` is deprecated and might become
|
||||
``^p`` in later versions or be dropped entirely since it is rarely used.
|
||||
Use the new notation ``p[]`` in the rare cases where you need to
|
||||
dereference a pointer explicitly.
|
||||
- ``system.readFile`` does not return ``nil`` anymore but raises an ``EIO``
|
||||
exception instead.
|
||||
- Unsound co-/contravariance for procvars has been removed.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Language Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Source code filters are now documented.
|
||||
- Added the ``linearScanEnd``, ``unroll``, ``shallow`` pragmas.
|
||||
- Added ``emit`` pragma for direct code generator control.
|
||||
- Case statement branches support constant sets for programming convenience.
|
||||
- Tuple unpacking is not enforced in ``for`` loops anymore.
|
||||
- The compiler now supports array, sequence and string slicing.
|
||||
- A field in an ``enum`` may be given an explicit string representation.
|
||||
This yields more maintainable code than using a constant
|
||||
``array[TMyEnum, string]`` mapping.
|
||||
- Indices in array literals may be explicitly given, enhancing readability:
|
||||
``[enumValueA: "a", enumValueB: "b"]``.
|
||||
- Added thread support via the ``threads`` core module and
|
||||
the ``--threads:on`` command line switch.
|
||||
- The built-in iterators ``system.fields`` and ``system.fieldPairs`` can be
|
||||
used to iterate over any field of a tuple. With this mechanism operations
|
||||
like ``==`` and ``hash`` are lifted to tuples.
|
||||
- The slice ``..`` is now a first-class operator, allowing code like:
|
||||
``x in 1000..100_000``.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Compiler Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- The compiler supports IDEs via the new group of ``idetools`` command line
|
||||
options.
|
||||
- The *interactive mode* (REPL) has been improved and documented for the
|
||||
first time.
|
||||
- The compiler now might use hashing for string case statements depending
|
||||
on the number of string literals in the case statement.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Library Additions
|
||||
-----------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Added ``lists`` module which contains generic linked lists.
|
||||
- Added ``sets`` module which contains generic hash sets.
|
||||
- Added ``tables`` module which contains generic hash tables.
|
||||
- Added ``queues`` module which contains generic sequence based queues.
|
||||
- Added ``intsets`` module which contains a specialized int set data type.
|
||||
- Added ``scgi`` module.
|
||||
- Added ``smtp`` module.
|
||||
- Added ``encodings`` module.
|
||||
- Added ``re.findAll``, ``pegs.findAll``.
|
||||
- Added ``os.findExe``.
|
||||
- Added ``parseutils.parseUntil`` and ``parseutils.parseWhile``.
|
||||
- Added ``strutils.align``, ``strutils.tokenize``, ``strutils.wordWrap``.
|
||||
- Pegs support a *captured search loop operator* ``{@}``.
|
||||
- Pegs support new built-ins: ``\letter``, ``\upper``, ``\lower``,
|
||||
``\title``, ``\white``.
|
||||
- Pegs support the new built-in ``\skip`` operation.
|
||||
- Pegs support the ``$`` and ``^`` anchors.
|
||||
- Additional operations were added to the ``complex`` module.
|
||||
- Added ``strutils.formatFloat``, ``strutils.formatBiggestFloat``.
|
||||
- Added unary ``<`` for nice looking excluding upper bounds in ranges.
|
||||
- Added ``math.floor``.
|
||||
- Added ``system.reset`` and a version of ``system.open`` that
|
||||
returns a ``TFile`` and raises an exception in case of an error.
|
||||
- Added a wrapper for ``redis``.
|
||||
- Added a wrapper for ``0mq`` via the ``zmq`` module.
|
||||
- Added a wrapper for ``sphinx``.
|
||||
- Added ``system.newStringOfCap``.
|
||||
- Added ``system.raiseHook`` and ``system.outOfMemHook``.
|
||||
- Added ``system.writeFile``.
|
||||
- Added ``system.shallowCopy``.
|
||||
- ``system.echo`` is guaranteed to be thread-safe.
|
||||
- Added ``prelude`` include file for scripting convenience.
|
||||
- Added ``typeinfo`` core module for access to runtime type information.
|
||||
- Added ``marshal`` module for JSON serialization.
|
||||
168
web/news/2012_02_09_version_0_8_14_released.rst
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168
web/news/2012_02_09_version_0_8_14_released.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
|
||||
2012-02-09 Version 0.8.14 released
|
||||
==================================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Andreas Rumpf on 09/02/2012
|
||||
|
||||
Version 0.8.14 has been released!
|
||||
|
||||
Bugfixes
|
||||
--------
|
||||
|
||||
- Fixed a serious memory corruption concerning message passing.
|
||||
- Fixed a serious bug concerning different instantiations of a generic proc.
|
||||
- Fixed a newly introduced bug where a wrong ``EIO`` exception was raised for
|
||||
the end of file for text files that do not end with a newline.
|
||||
- Bugfix c2nim, c2pas: the ``--out`` option has never worked properly.
|
||||
- Bugfix: forwarding of generic procs never worked.
|
||||
- Some more bugfixes for macros and compile-time evaluation.
|
||||
- The GC now takes into account interior pointers on the stack which may be
|
||||
introduced by aggressive C optimizers.
|
||||
- Nimrod's native allocator/GC now works on PowerPC.
|
||||
- Lots of other bugfixes: Too many to list them all.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Changes affecting backwards compatibility
|
||||
-----------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Removed deprecated ``os.AppendFileExt``, ``os.executeShellCommand``,
|
||||
``os.iterOverEnvironment``, ``os.pcDirectory``, ``os.pcLinkToDirectory``,
|
||||
``os.SplitPath``, ``os.extractDir``, ``os.SplitFilename``,
|
||||
``os.extractFileTrunk``, ``os.extractFileExt``, ``osproc.executeProcess``,
|
||||
``osproc.executeCommand``.
|
||||
- Removed deprecated ``parseopt.init``, ``parseopt.getRestOfCommandLine``.
|
||||
- Moved ``strutils.validEmailAddress`` to ``matchers.validEmailAddress``.
|
||||
- The pointer dereference operator ``^`` has been removed, so that ``^``
|
||||
can now be a user-defined operator.
|
||||
- ``implies`` is no keyword anymore.
|
||||
- The ``is`` operator is now the ``of`` operator.
|
||||
- The ``is`` operator is now used to check type equivalence in generic code.
|
||||
- The ``pure`` pragma for procs has been renamed to ``noStackFrame``.
|
||||
- The threading API has been completely redesigned.
|
||||
- The ``unidecode`` module is now thread-safe and its interface has changed.
|
||||
- The ``bind`` expression is deprecated, use a ``bind`` declaration instead.
|
||||
- ``system.raiseHook`` is now split into ``system.localRaiseHook`` and
|
||||
``system.globalRaiseHook`` to distinguish between thread local and global
|
||||
raise hooks.
|
||||
- Changed exception handling/error reporting for ``os.removeFile`` and
|
||||
``os.removeDir``.
|
||||
- The algorithm for searching and loading configuration files has been changed.
|
||||
- Operators now have diffent precedence rules: Assignment-like operators
|
||||
(like ``*=``) are now special-cased.
|
||||
- The fields in ``TStream`` have been renamed to have an ``Impl`` suffix
|
||||
because they should not be used directly anymore.
|
||||
Wrapper procs have been created that should be used instead.
|
||||
- ``export`` is now a keyword.
|
||||
- ``assert`` is now implemented in pure Nimrod as a template; it's easy
|
||||
to implement your own assertion templates with ``system.astToStr``.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Language Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Added new ``is`` and ``of`` operators.
|
||||
- The built-in type ``void`` can be used to denote the absence of any type.
|
||||
This is useful in generic code.
|
||||
- Return types may be of the type ``var T`` to return an l-value.
|
||||
- The error pragma can now be used to mark symbols whose *usage* should trigger
|
||||
a compile-time error.
|
||||
- There is a new ``discardable`` pragma that can be used to mark a routine
|
||||
so that its result can be discarded implicitly.
|
||||
- Added a new ``noinit`` pragma to prevent automatic initialization to zero
|
||||
of variables.
|
||||
- Constants can now have the type ``seq``.
|
||||
- There is a new user-definable syntactic construct ``a{i, ...}``
|
||||
that has no semantics yet for built-in types and so can be overloaded to your
|
||||
heart's content.
|
||||
- ``bind`` (used for symbol binding in templates and generics) is now a
|
||||
declarative statement.
|
||||
- Nimrod now supports single assignment variables via the ``let`` statement.
|
||||
- Iterators named ``items`` and ``pairs`` are implicitly invoked when
|
||||
an explicit iterator is missing.
|
||||
- The slice assignment ``a[i..j] = b`` where ``a`` is a sequence or string
|
||||
now supports *splicing*.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Compiler Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- The compiler can generate C++ code for easier interfacing with C++.
|
||||
- The compiler can generate Objective C code for easier interfacing with
|
||||
Objective C.
|
||||
- The new pragmas ``importcpp`` and ``importobjc`` make interfacing with C++
|
||||
and Objective C somewhat easier.
|
||||
- Added a new pragma ``incompleteStruct`` to deal with incomplete C struct
|
||||
definitions.
|
||||
- Added a ``--nimcache:PATH`` configuration option for control over the output
|
||||
directory for generated code.
|
||||
- The ``--genScript`` option now produces different compilation scripts
|
||||
which do not contain absolute paths.
|
||||
- Added ``--cincludes:dir``, ``--clibdir:lib`` configuration options for
|
||||
modifying the C compiler's header/library search path in cross-platform way.
|
||||
- Added ``--clib:lib`` configuration option for specifying additional
|
||||
C libraries to be linked.
|
||||
- Added ``--mainmodule:file`` configuration options for specifying the main
|
||||
project file. This is intended to be used in project configuration files to
|
||||
allow commands like ``nimrod c`` or ``nimrod check`` to be executed anywhere
|
||||
within the project's directory structure.
|
||||
- Added a ``--app:staticlib`` option for creating static libraries.
|
||||
- Added a ``--tlsEmulation:on|off`` switch for control over thread local
|
||||
storage emulation.
|
||||
- The compiler and standard library now support a *taint mode*. Input strings
|
||||
are declared with the ``TaintedString`` string type. If the taint
|
||||
mode is turned on it is a distinct string type which helps to detect input
|
||||
validation errors.
|
||||
- The compiler now supports the compilation cache via ``--symbolFiles:on``.
|
||||
This potentially speeds up compilations by an order of magnitude, but is
|
||||
still highly experimental!
|
||||
- Added ``--import:file`` and ``--include:file`` configuration options
|
||||
for specifying modules that will be automatically imported/incluced.
|
||||
- ``nimrod i`` can now optionally be given a module to execute.
|
||||
- The compiler now performs a simple alias analysis to generate better code.
|
||||
- The compiler and ENDB now support *watchpoints*.
|
||||
- The compiler now supports proper compile time expressions of type ``bool``
|
||||
for ``on|off`` switches in pragmas. In order to not break existing code,
|
||||
``on`` and ``off`` are now aliases for ``true`` and ``false`` and declared
|
||||
in the system module.
|
||||
- The compiler finally supports **closures**. This is a preliminary
|
||||
implementation, which does not yet support nestings deeper than 1 level
|
||||
and still has many known bugs.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Library Additions
|
||||
-----------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Added ``system.allocShared``, ``system.allocShared0``,
|
||||
``system.deallocShared``, ``system.reallocShared``.
|
||||
- Slicing as implemented by the system module now supports *splicing*.
|
||||
- Added explicit channels for thread communication.
|
||||
- Added ``matchers`` module for email address etc. matching.
|
||||
- Added ``strutils.unindent``, ``strutils.countLines``,
|
||||
``strutils.replaceWord``.
|
||||
- Added ``system.slurp`` for easy resource embedding.
|
||||
- Added ``system.running`` for threads.
|
||||
- Added ``system.programResult``.
|
||||
- Added ``xmltree.innerText``.
|
||||
- Added ``os.isAbsolute``, ``os.dynLibFormat``, ``os.isRootDir``,
|
||||
``os.parentDirs``.
|
||||
- Added ``parseutils.interpolatedFragments``.
|
||||
- Added ``macros.treeRepr``, ``macros.lispRepr``, ``macros.dumpTree``,
|
||||
``macros.dumpLisp``, ``macros.parseExpr``, ``macros.parseStmt``,
|
||||
``macros.getAst``.
|
||||
- Added ``locks`` core module for more flexible locking support.
|
||||
- Added ``irc`` module.
|
||||
- Added ``ftpclient`` module.
|
||||
- Added ``memfiles`` module.
|
||||
- Added ``subexes`` module.
|
||||
- Added ``critbits`` module.
|
||||
- Added ``asyncio`` module.
|
||||
- Added ``actors`` module.
|
||||
- Added ``algorithm`` module for generic ``sort``, ``reverse`` etc. operations.
|
||||
- Added ``osproc.startCmd``, ``osproc.execCmdEx``.
|
||||
- The ``osproc`` module now uses ``posix_spawn`` instead of ``fork``
|
||||
and ``exec`` on Posix systems. Define the symbol ``useFork`` to revert to
|
||||
the old implementation.
|
||||
- Added ``intsets.assign``.
|
||||
- Added ``system.astToStr`` and ``system.rand``, ``system.doAssert``.
|
||||
- Added ``system.pairs`` for built-in types like arrays and strings.
|
||||
182
web/news/2012_09_23_version_0_9_0_released.rst
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182
web/news/2012_09_23_version_0_9_0_released.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
|
||||
Version 0.9.0 released
|
||||
======================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Andreas Rumpf on 23/09/2012
|
||||
|
||||
Summary
|
||||
-------
|
||||
|
||||
* Unsigned integers have been added.
|
||||
* The integer type promotion rules changed.
|
||||
* The template and macro system evolved.
|
||||
* Closures have been implemented.
|
||||
* Term rewriting macros have been implemented.
|
||||
* First steps to unify expressions and statements have been taken.
|
||||
* Symbol lookup rules in generics have become stricter to catch more errors.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Bugfixes
|
||||
--------
|
||||
|
||||
- Fixed a bug where the compiler would "optimize away" valid constant parts of
|
||||
a string concatenation.
|
||||
- Fixed a bug concerning implicit type conversions in ``case`` statements.
|
||||
- Fixed a serious code generation bug that caused ``algorithm.sort`` to
|
||||
produce segmentation faults.
|
||||
- Fixed ambiguity in recvLine which meant that receiving ``\r\L`` was
|
||||
indistinguishable from disconnections.
|
||||
- Many more bugfixes, too many to list them all.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Library Additions
|
||||
-----------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Added the (already existing) module ``htmlgen`` to the documentation.
|
||||
- Added the (already existing) module ``cookies`` to the documentation.
|
||||
- Added ``system.shallow`` that can be used to speed up string and sequence
|
||||
assignments.
|
||||
- Added ``system.eval`` that can execute an anonymous block of code at
|
||||
compile time as if was a macro.
|
||||
- Added ``system.staticExec`` and ``system.gorge`` for compile-time execution
|
||||
of external programs.
|
||||
- Added ``system.staticRead`` as a synonym for ``system.slurp``.
|
||||
- Added ``macros.emit`` that can emit an arbitrary computed string as nimrod
|
||||
code during compilation.
|
||||
- Added ``strutils.parseEnum``.
|
||||
- Added ``json.%`` constructor operator.
|
||||
- The stdlib can now be avoided to a point where C code generation for 16bit
|
||||
micro controllers is feasible.
|
||||
- Added module ``oids``.
|
||||
- Added module ``endians``.
|
||||
- Added a new OpenGL wrapper that supports OpenGL up to version 4.2.
|
||||
- Added a wrapper for ``libsvm``.
|
||||
- Added a wrapper for ``mongodb``.
|
||||
- Added ``terminal.isatty``.
|
||||
- Added an overload for ``system.items`` that can be used to iterate over the
|
||||
values of an enum.
|
||||
- Added ``system.TInteger`` and ``system.TNumber`` type classes matching
|
||||
any of the corresponding types available in Nimrod.
|
||||
- Added ``system.clamp`` to limit a value within an interval ``[a, b]``.
|
||||
- Added ``strutils.continuesWith``.
|
||||
- Added ``system.getStackTrace``.
|
||||
- Added ``system.||`` for parallel ``for`` loop support.
|
||||
- The GC supports (soft) realtime systems via ``GC_setMaxPause``
|
||||
and ``GC_step`` procs.
|
||||
- The sockets module now supports ssl through the OpenSSL library, ``recvLine``
|
||||
is now much more efficient thanks to the newly implemented sockets buffering.
|
||||
- The httpclient module now supports ssl/tls.
|
||||
- Added ``times.format`` as well as many other utility functions
|
||||
for managing time.
|
||||
- Added ``system.@`` for converting an ``openarray`` to a ``seq`` (it used to
|
||||
only support fixed length arrays).
|
||||
- Added ``system.compiles`` which can be used to check whether a type supports
|
||||
some operation.
|
||||
- Added ``strutils.format``, ``subexes.format`` which use the
|
||||
new ``varargs`` type.
|
||||
- Added module ``fsmonitor``.
|
||||
|
||||
Changes affecting backwards compatibility
|
||||
-----------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- On Windows filenames and paths are supposed to be in UTF-8.
|
||||
The ``system``, ``os``, ``osproc`` and ``memfiles`` modules use the wide
|
||||
string versions of the WinAPI. Use the ``-d:useWinAnsi`` switch to revert
|
||||
back to the old behaviour which uses the Ansi string versions.
|
||||
- ``static``, ``do``, ``interface`` and ``mixin`` are now keywords.
|
||||
- Templates now participate in overloading resolution which can break code that
|
||||
uses templates in subtle ways. Use the new ``immediate`` pragma for templates
|
||||
to get a template of old behaviour.
|
||||
- There is now a proper distinction in the type system between ``expr`` and
|
||||
``PNimrodNode`` which unfortunately breaks the old macro system.
|
||||
- ``pegs.@`` has been renamed to ``pegs.!*`` and ``pegs.@@`` has been renamed
|
||||
to ``pegs.!*\`` as ``@`` operators now have different precedence.
|
||||
- The type ``proc`` (without any params or return type) is now considered a
|
||||
type class matching all proc types. Use ``proc ()`` to get the old meaning
|
||||
denoting a proc expecing no arguments and returing no value.
|
||||
- Deprecated ``system.GC_setStrategy``.
|
||||
- ``re.findAll`` and ``pegs.findAll`` don't return *captures* anymore but
|
||||
matching *substrings*.
|
||||
- RTTI and thus the ``marshall`` module don't contain the proper field names
|
||||
of tuples anymore. This had to be changed as the old behaviour never
|
||||
produced consistent results.
|
||||
- Deprecated the ``ssl`` module.
|
||||
- Deprecated ``nimrod pretty`` as it never worked good enough and has some
|
||||
inherent problems.
|
||||
- The integer promotion rules changed; the compiler is now less picky in some
|
||||
situations and more picky in other situations: In particular implicit
|
||||
conversions from ``int`` to ``int32`` are now forbidden.
|
||||
- ``system.byte`` is now an alias for ``uint8``; it used to be an alias
|
||||
to ``int8``.
|
||||
- ``bind`` expressions in templates are not properly supported anymore. Use
|
||||
the declarative ``bind`` statement instead.
|
||||
- The default calling convention for a procedural **type** is now ``closure``,
|
||||
for procs it remains ``nimcall`` (which is compatible to ``closure``).
|
||||
Activate the warning ``ImplicitClosure`` to make the compiler list the
|
||||
occurrences of proc types which are affected.
|
||||
- The Nimrod type system now distinguishes ``openarray`` from ``varargs``.
|
||||
- Templates are now ``hygienic``. Use the ``dirty`` pragma to get the old
|
||||
behaviour.
|
||||
- Objects that have no ancestor are now implicitly ``final``. Use
|
||||
the ``inheritable`` pragma to introduce new object roots apart
|
||||
from ``TObject``.
|
||||
- Macros now receive parameters like templates do; use the ``callsite`` builtin
|
||||
to gain access to the invocation AST.
|
||||
- Symbol lookup rules in generics have become stricter to catch more errors.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Compiler Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Win64 is now an officially supported target.
|
||||
- The Nimrod compiler works on BSD again, but has some issues
|
||||
as ``os.getAppFilename`` and ``os.getAppDir`` cannot work reliably on BSD.
|
||||
- The compiler can detect and evaluate calls that can be evaluated at compile
|
||||
time for optimization purposes with the ``--implicitStatic`` command line
|
||||
option or pragma.
|
||||
- The compiler now generates marker procs that the GC can use instead of RTTI.
|
||||
This speeds up the GC quite a bit.
|
||||
- The compiler now includes a new advanced documentation generator
|
||||
via the ``doc2`` command. This new generator uses all of the semantic passes
|
||||
of the compiler and can thus generate documentation for symbols hiding in
|
||||
macros.
|
||||
- The compiler now supports the ``dynlib`` pragma for variables.
|
||||
- The compiler now supports ``bycopy`` and ``byref`` pragmas that affect how
|
||||
objects/tuples are passed.
|
||||
- The embedded profiler became a stack trace profiler and has been documented.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Language Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Added explicit ``static`` sections for enforced compile time evaluation.
|
||||
- Added an alternative notation for lambdas with ``do``.
|
||||
- ``addr`` is now treated like a prefix operator syntactically.
|
||||
- Added ``global`` pragma that can be used to introduce new global variables
|
||||
from within procs.
|
||||
- ``when`` expressions are now allowed just like ``if`` expressions.
|
||||
- The precedence for operators starting with ``@`` is different now
|
||||
allowing for *sigil-like* operators.
|
||||
- Stand-alone ``finally`` and ``except`` blocks are now supported.
|
||||
- Macros and templates can now be invoked as pragmas.
|
||||
- The apostrophe in type suffixes for numerical literals is now optional.
|
||||
- Unsigned integer types have been added.
|
||||
- The integer promotion rules changed.
|
||||
- Nimrod now tracks proper intervals for ``range`` over some built-in operators.
|
||||
- In parameter lists a semicolon instead of a comma can be used to improve
|
||||
readability: ``proc divmod(a, b: int; resA, resB: var int)``.
|
||||
- A semicolon can now be used to have multiple simple statements on a single
|
||||
line: ``inc i; inc j``.
|
||||
- ``bind`` supports overloaded symbols and operators.
|
||||
- A ``distinct`` type can now borrow from generic procs.
|
||||
- Added the pragmas ``gensym``, ``inject`` and ``dirty`` for hygiene
|
||||
in templates.
|
||||
- Comments can be continued with a backslash continuation character so that
|
||||
comment pieces don't have to align on the same column.
|
||||
- Enums can be annotated with ``pure`` so that their field names do not pollute
|
||||
the current scope.
|
||||
- A proc body can consist of an expression that has a type. This is rewritten
|
||||
to ``result = expression`` then.
|
||||
- Term rewriting macros (see `trmacros <http://nimrod-code.org/trmacros.html>`_)
|
||||
have been implemented but are still in alpha.
|
||||
13
web/news/2013_05_20_new_website_design.rst
Normal file
13
web/news/2013_05_20_new_website_design.rst
Normal file
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
|
||||
New website design!
|
||||
===================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Andreas Rumpf on 09/12/2014
|
||||
|
||||
A brand new website including an improved forum is now live.
|
||||
All thanks go to Philip Witte and
|
||||
Dominik Picheta, Philip Witte for the design of the website (together with
|
||||
the logo) as well as the HTML and CSS code for his template, and Dominik Picheta
|
||||
for integrating Philip's design with Nim's forum. We're sure you will
|
||||
agree that Philip's design is beautiful.
|
||||
118
web/news/2013_05_20_version_0_9_2_released.rst
Normal file
118
web/news/2013_05_20_version_0_9_2_released.rst
Normal file
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
|
||||
Version 0.9.2 released
|
||||
======================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Dominik Picheta on 20/05/2013
|
||||
|
||||
We are pleased to announce that version 0.9.2 of the Nimrod compiler has been
|
||||
released. This release has attracted by far the most contributions in comparison
|
||||
to any other release.
|
||||
|
||||
This release brings with it many new features and bug fixes, a list of which
|
||||
can be seen later. One of the major new features is the effect system together
|
||||
with exception tracking which allows for checked exceptions and more,
|
||||
for further details check out the `manual <manual.html#effect-system>`_.
|
||||
Another major new feature is the introduction of statement list expressions,
|
||||
more details on these can be found `here <manual.html#statement-list-expression>`_.
|
||||
The ability to exclude symbols from modules has also been
|
||||
implemented, this feature can be used like so: ``import module except symbol``.
|
||||
|
||||
Thanks to all `contributors <https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/contributors>`_!
|
||||
|
||||
Bugfixes
|
||||
--------
|
||||
|
||||
- The old GC never collected cycles correctly. Fixed but it can cause
|
||||
performance regressions. However you can deactivate the cycle collector
|
||||
with ``GC_disableMarkAndSweep`` and run it explicitly at an appropriate time
|
||||
or not at all. There is also a new GC you can activate
|
||||
with ``--gc:markAndSweep`` which does not have this problem but is slower in
|
||||
general and has no realtime guarantees.
|
||||
- ``cast`` for floating point types now does the bitcast as specified in the
|
||||
manual. This breaks code that erroneously uses ``cast`` to convert different
|
||||
floating point values.
|
||||
- SCGI module's performance has been improved greatly, it will no longer block
|
||||
on many concurrent requests.
|
||||
- In total fixed over 70 github issues and merged over 60 pull requests.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Library Additions
|
||||
-----------------
|
||||
|
||||
- There is a new experimental mark&sweep GC which can be faster (or much
|
||||
slower) than the default GC. Enable with ``--gc:markAndSweep``.
|
||||
- Added ``system.onRaise`` to support a condition system.
|
||||
- Added ``system.locals`` that provides access to a proc's locals.
|
||||
- Added ``macros.quote`` for AST quasi-quoting.
|
||||
- Added ``system.unsafeNew`` to support hacky variable length objects.
|
||||
- ``system.fields`` and ``system.fieldPairs`` support ``object`` too; they
|
||||
used to only support tuples.
|
||||
- Added ``system.CurrentSourcePath`` returning the full file-system path of
|
||||
the current source file.
|
||||
- The ``macros`` module now contains lots of useful helpers for building up
|
||||
abstract syntax trees.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Changes affecting backwards compatibility
|
||||
-----------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- ``shared`` is a keyword now.
|
||||
- Deprecated ``sockets.recvLine`` and ``asyncio.recvLine``, added
|
||||
``readLine`` instead.
|
||||
- The way indentation is handled in the parser changed significantly. However,
|
||||
this affects very little (if any) real world code.
|
||||
- The expression/statement unification has been implemented. Again this
|
||||
only affects edge cases and no known real world code.
|
||||
- Changed the async interface of the ``scgi`` module.
|
||||
- WideStrings are now garbage collected like other string types.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Compiler Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- The ``doc2`` command does not generate output for the whole project anymore.
|
||||
Use the new ``--project`` switch to enable this behaviour.
|
||||
- The compiler can now warn about shadowed local variables. However, this needs
|
||||
to be turned on explicitly via ``--warning[ShadowIdent]:on``.
|
||||
- The compiler now supports almost every pragma in a ``push`` pragma.
|
||||
- Generic converters have been implemented.
|
||||
- Added a **highly experimental** ``noforward`` pragma enabling a special
|
||||
compilation mode that largely eliminates the need for forward declarations.
|
||||
|
||||
Language Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- ``case expressions`` are now supported.
|
||||
- Table constructors now mimic more closely the syntax of the ``case``
|
||||
statement.
|
||||
- Nimrod can now infer the return type of a proc from its body.
|
||||
- Added a ``mixin`` declaration to affect symbol binding rules in generics.
|
||||
- Exception tracking has been added and the ``doc2`` command annotates possible
|
||||
exceptions for you.
|
||||
- User defined effects ("tags") tracking has been added and the ``doc2``
|
||||
command annotates possible tags for you.
|
||||
- Types can be annotated with the new syntax ``not nil`` to explicitly state
|
||||
that ``nil`` is not allowed. However currently the compiler performs no
|
||||
advanced static checking for this; for now it's merely for documentation
|
||||
purposes.
|
||||
- An ``export`` statement has been added to the language: It can be used for
|
||||
symbol forwarding so client modules don't have to import a module's
|
||||
dependencies explicitly.
|
||||
- Overloading based on ASTs has been implemented.
|
||||
- Generics are now supported for multi methods.
|
||||
- Objects can be initialized via an *object constructor expression*.
|
||||
- There is a new syntactic construct ``(;)`` unifying expressions and
|
||||
statements.
|
||||
- You can now use ``from module import nil`` if you want to import the module
|
||||
but want to enforce fully qualified access to every symbol in ``module``.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Notes for the future
|
||||
--------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- The scope rules of ``if`` statements will change in 0.9.4. This affects the
|
||||
``=~`` pegs/re templates.
|
||||
- The ``sockets`` module will become a low-level wrapper of OS-specific socket
|
||||
functions. All the high-level features of the current ``sockets`` module
|
||||
will be moved to a ``network`` module.
|
||||
11
web/news/2014_01_15_andreas_rumpfs_talk_on_nimrod.rst
Normal file
11
web/news/2014_01_15_andreas_rumpfs_talk_on_nimrod.rst
Normal file
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
|
||||
2014-01-15 Andreas Rumpf's talk on Nimrod at Strange Loop 2013 is now online
|
||||
============================================================================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Dominik Picheta on 12/01/2014
|
||||
|
||||
Andreas Rumpf presented *Nimrod: A New Approach to Metaprogramming* at
|
||||
`Strange Loop 2013<https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/nimrod-a-new-approach-to-meta-programming>`_.
|
||||
The `video and slides<http://www.infoq.com/presentations/nimrod>`_
|
||||
of the talk are now available.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
|
||||
Nimrod Featured in Dr. Dobb's Journal
|
||||
=====================================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Dominik Picheta on 11/02/2014
|
||||
|
||||
Nimrod has been `featured<http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/nimrod-a-new-systems-programming-languag/240165321>`_
|
||||
as the cover story in the February 2014 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal.
|
||||
179
web/news/2014_04_21_version_0_9_4_released.rst
Normal file
179
web/news/2014_04_21_version_0_9_4_released.rst
Normal file
@@ -0,0 +1,179 @@
|
||||
2014-04-21 Version 0.9.4 released
|
||||
=================================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Dominik Picheta on 21/04/2014
|
||||
|
||||
The Nimrod development community is proud to announce the release of version
|
||||
0.9.4 of the Nimrod compiler and tools. **Note: This release has to be
|
||||
considered beta quality! Lots of new features have been implemented but
|
||||
unfortunately some do not fulfill our quality standards yet.**
|
||||
|
||||
Prebuilt binaries and instructions for building from source are available
|
||||
on the `download page <download.html>`_.
|
||||
|
||||
This release includes about
|
||||
`1400 changes <https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/compare/v0.9.2...v0.9.4>`_
|
||||
in total including various bug
|
||||
fixes, new languages features and standard library additions and improvements.
|
||||
This release brings with it support for user-defined type classes, a brand
|
||||
new VM for executing Nimrod code at compile-time and new symbol binding
|
||||
rules for clean templates.
|
||||
|
||||
It also introduces support for the brand new
|
||||
`Babel package manager <https://github.com/nimrod-code/babel>`_ which
|
||||
has itself seen its first release recently. Many of the wrappers that were
|
||||
present in the standard library have been moved to separate repositories
|
||||
and should now be installed using Babel.
|
||||
|
||||
Apart from that a new **experimental** Asynchronous IO API has been added via
|
||||
the ``asyncdispatch`` and ``asyncnet`` modules. The ``net`` and ``rawsockets``
|
||||
modules have also been added and they will likely replace the sockets
|
||||
module in the next release. The Asynchronous IO API has been designed to
|
||||
take advantage of Linux's epoll and Windows' IOCP APIs, support for BSD's
|
||||
kqueue has not been implemented yet but will be in the future.
|
||||
The Asynchronous IO API provides both
|
||||
a callback interface and an interface which allows you to write code as you
|
||||
would if you were writing synchronous code. The latter is done through
|
||||
the use of an ``await`` macro which behaves similar to C#'s await. The
|
||||
following is a very simple chat server demonstrating Nimrod's new async
|
||||
capabilities.
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block::nim
|
||||
import asyncnet, asyncdispatch
|
||||
|
||||
var clients: seq[PAsyncSocket] = @[]
|
||||
|
||||
proc processClient(client: PAsyncSocket) {.async.} =
|
||||
while true:
|
||||
let line = await client.recvLine()
|
||||
for c in clients:
|
||||
await c.send(line & "\c\L")
|
||||
|
||||
proc serve() {.async.} =
|
||||
var server = newAsyncSocket()
|
||||
server.bindAddr(TPort(12345))
|
||||
server.listen()
|
||||
|
||||
while true:
|
||||
let client = await server.accept()
|
||||
clients.add client
|
||||
|
||||
processClient(client)
|
||||
|
||||
serve()
|
||||
runForever()
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Note that this feature has been implemented with Nimrod's macro system and so
|
||||
``await`` and ``async`` are no keywords.
|
||||
|
||||
Syntactic sugar for anonymous procedures has also been introduced. It too has
|
||||
been implemented as a macro. The following shows some simple usage of the new
|
||||
syntax:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block::nim
|
||||
import future
|
||||
|
||||
var s = @[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
|
||||
echo(s.map((x: int) => x * 5))
|
||||
|
||||
A list of changes follows, for a comprehensive list of changes take a look
|
||||
`here <https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/compare/v0.9.2...v0.9.4>`_.
|
||||
|
||||
Library Additions
|
||||
-----------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Added ``macros.genSym`` builtin for AST generation.
|
||||
- Added ``macros.newLit`` procs for easier AST generation.
|
||||
- Added module ``logging``.
|
||||
- Added module ``asyncdispatch``.
|
||||
- Added module ``asyncnet``.
|
||||
- Added module ``net``.
|
||||
- Added module ``rawsockets``.
|
||||
- Added module ``selectors``.
|
||||
- Added module ``asynchttpserver``.
|
||||
- Added support for the new asynchronous IO in the ``httpclient`` module.
|
||||
- Added a Python-inspired ``future`` module that features upcoming additions
|
||||
to the ``system`` module.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Changes affecting backwards compatibility
|
||||
-----------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- The scoping rules for the ``if`` statement changed for better interaction
|
||||
with the new syntactic construct ``(;)``.
|
||||
- ``OSError`` family of procedures has been deprecated. Procedures with the same
|
||||
name but which take different parameters have been introduced. These procs now
|
||||
require an error code to be passed to them. This error code can be retrieved
|
||||
using the new ``OSLastError`` proc.
|
||||
- ``os.parentDir`` now returns "" if there is no parent dir.
|
||||
- In CGI scripts stacktraces are shown to the user only
|
||||
if ``cgi.setStackTraceStdout`` is used.
|
||||
- The symbol binding rules for clean templates changed: ``bind`` for any
|
||||
symbol that's not a parameter is now the default. ``mixin`` can be used
|
||||
to require instantiation scope for a symbol.
|
||||
- ``quoteIfContainsWhite`` now escapes argument in such way that it can be safely
|
||||
passed to shell, instead of just adding double quotes.
|
||||
- ``macros.dumpTree`` and ``macros.dumpLisp`` have been made ``immediate``,
|
||||
``dumpTreeImm`` and ``dumpLispImm`` are now deprecated.
|
||||
- The ``nil`` statement has been deprecated, use an empty ``discard`` instead.
|
||||
- ``sockets.select`` now prunes sockets that are **not** ready from the list
|
||||
of sockets given to it.
|
||||
- The ``noStackFrame`` pragma has been renamed to ``asmNoStackFrame`` to
|
||||
ensure you only use it when you know what you're doing.
|
||||
- Many of the wrappers that were present in the standard library have been
|
||||
moved to separate repositories and should now be installed using Babel.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Compiler Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- The compiler can now warn about "uninitialized" variables. (There are no
|
||||
real uninitialized variables in Nimrod as they are initialized to binary
|
||||
zero). Activate via ``{.warning[Uninit]:on.}``.
|
||||
- The compiler now enforces the ``not nil`` constraint.
|
||||
- The compiler now supports a ``codegenDecl`` pragma for even more control
|
||||
over the generated code.
|
||||
- The compiler now supports a ``computedGoto`` pragma to support very fast
|
||||
dispatching for interpreters and the like.
|
||||
- The old evaluation engine has been replaced by a proper register based
|
||||
virtual machine. This fixes numerous bugs for ``nimrod i`` and for macro
|
||||
evaluation.
|
||||
- ``--gc:none`` produces warnings when code uses the GC.
|
||||
- A ``union`` pragma for better C interoperability is now supported.
|
||||
- A ``packed`` pragma to control the memory packing/alignment of fields in
|
||||
an object.
|
||||
- Arrays can be annotated to be ``unchecked`` for easier low level
|
||||
manipulations of memory.
|
||||
- Support for the new Babel package manager.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Language Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Arrays can now be declared with a single integer literal ``N`` instead of a
|
||||
range; the range is then ``0..N-1``.
|
||||
- Added ``requiresInit`` pragma to enforce explicit initialization.
|
||||
- Exported templates are allowed to access hidden fields.
|
||||
- The ``using statement`` enables you to more easily author domain-specific
|
||||
languages and libraries providing OOP-like syntactic sugar.
|
||||
- Added the possibility to override various dot operators in order to handle
|
||||
calls to missing procs and reads from undeclared fields at compile-time.
|
||||
- The overload resolution now supports ``static[T]`` params that must be
|
||||
evaluable at compile-time.
|
||||
- Support for user-defined type classes has been added.
|
||||
- The *command syntax* is supported in a lot more contexts.
|
||||
- Anonymous iterators are now supported and iterators can capture variables
|
||||
of an outer proc.
|
||||
- The experimental ``strongSpaces`` parsing mode has been implemented.
|
||||
- You can annotate pointer types with regions for increased type safety.
|
||||
- Added support for the builtin ``spawn`` for easy thread pool usage.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Tools improvements
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- c2nim can deal with a subset of C++. Use the ``--cpp`` command line option
|
||||
to activate.
|
||||
65
web/news/2014_10_19_version_0_9_6_released.rst
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65
web/news/2014_10_19_version_0_9_6_released.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
|
||||
Version 0.9.6 released
|
||||
=================================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Andreas Rumpf on 19/10/2014
|
||||
|
||||
**Note: 0.9.6 is the last release of Nimrod. The language is being renamed to
|
||||
Nim. Nim slightly breaks compatibility.**
|
||||
|
||||
This is a maintenance release. The upcoming 0.10.0 release has
|
||||
the new features and exciting developments.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Changes affecting backwards compatibility
|
||||
-----------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- ``spawn`` now uses an elaborate self-adapting thread pool and as such
|
||||
has been moved into its own module. So to use it, you now have to import
|
||||
``threadpool``.
|
||||
- The symbol binding rules in generics changed: ``bar`` in ``foo.bar`` is
|
||||
now considered for implicit early binding.
|
||||
- ``c2nim`` moved into its own repository and is now a Babel package.
|
||||
- ``pas2nim`` moved into its own repository and is now a Babel package.
|
||||
- ``system.$`` for floating point types now produces a human friendly string
|
||||
representation.
|
||||
- ``uri.TUrl`` as well as the ``parseurl`` module are now deprecated in favour
|
||||
of the new ``TUri`` type in the ``uri`` module.
|
||||
- The ``destructor`` pragma has been deprecated. Use the ``override`` pragma
|
||||
instead. The destructor's name has to be ``destroy`` now.
|
||||
- ``lambda`` is not a keyword anymore.
|
||||
- **system.defined has been split into system.defined and system.declared**.
|
||||
You have to use ``--symbol`` to declare new conditional symbols that can be
|
||||
set via ``--define``.
|
||||
- ``--threadanalysis:on`` is now the default. To make your program compile
|
||||
you can disable it but this is only a temporary solution as this option
|
||||
will disappear soon!
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Compiler improvements
|
||||
---------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Multi method dispatching performance has been improved by a factor of 10x for
|
||||
pathological cases.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Language Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- This version introduces the ``deprecated`` pragma statement that is used
|
||||
to handle the upcoming massive amount of symbol renames.
|
||||
- ``spawn`` can now wrap proc that has a return value. It then returns a data
|
||||
flow variable of the wrapped return type.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Library Additions
|
||||
-----------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Added module ``cpuinfo``.
|
||||
- Added module ``threadpool``.
|
||||
- ``sequtils.distnct`` has been renamed to ``sequtils.deduplicate``.
|
||||
- Added ``algorithm.reversed``
|
||||
- Added ``uri.combine`` and ``uri.parseUri``.
|
||||
- Some sockets procedures now support a ``SafeDisconn`` flag which causes
|
||||
them to handle disconnection errors and not raise them.
|
||||
198
web/news/2014_12_29_version_0_10_2_released.rst
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198
web/news/2014_12_29_version_0_10_2_released.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,198 @@
|
||||
Version 0.10.2 released
|
||||
=======================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Dominik Picheta on 29/12/2014
|
||||
|
||||
This release marks the completion of a very important change to the project:
|
||||
the official renaming from Nimrod to Nim. Version 0.10.2 contains many language
|
||||
changes, some of which may break your existing code. For your convenience, we
|
||||
added a new tool called `nimfix <nimfix.html>`_ that will help you convert your
|
||||
existing projects so that it works with the latest version of the compiler.
|
||||
|
||||
Progress towards version 1.0
|
||||
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
Although Nim is still pre-1.0, we were able to keep the number of breaking
|
||||
changes to a minimum so far. Starting with version 1.0, we will not introduce
|
||||
any breaking changes between major release versions.
|
||||
One of Nim's goals is to ensure that the compiler is as efficient as possible.
|
||||
Take a look at the
|
||||
`latest benchmarks <https://github.com/logicchains/LPATHBench/blob/master/writeup.md>`_,
|
||||
which show that Nim is consistently near
|
||||
the top and already nearly as fast as C and C++. Recent developments, such as
|
||||
the new ``asyncdispatch`` module will allow you to write efficient web server
|
||||
applications using non-blocking code. Nim now also has a built-in thread pool
|
||||
for lightweight threading through the use of ``spawn``.
|
||||
|
||||
The unpopular "T" and "P" prefixes on types have been deprecated. Nim also
|
||||
became more expressive by weakening the distinction between statements and
|
||||
expressions. We also added a new and searchable forum, a new website, and our
|
||||
documentation generator ``docgen`` has seen major improvements. Many thanks to
|
||||
Nick Greenfield for the much more beautiful documentation!
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
What's left to be done
|
||||
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
The 1.0 release is actually very close. Apart from bug fixes, there are
|
||||
two major features missing or incomplete:
|
||||
|
||||
* ``static[T]`` needs to be defined precisely and the bugs in the
|
||||
implementation need to be fixed.
|
||||
* Overloading of the assignment operator is required for some generic
|
||||
containers and needs to be implemented.
|
||||
|
||||
This means that fancy matrix libraries will finally start to work, which used
|
||||
to be a major point of pain in the language.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Nimble and other Nim tools
|
||||
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
Outside of the language and the compiler itself many Nim tools have seen
|
||||
considerable improvements.
|
||||
|
||||
Babel the Nim package manager has been renamed to Nimble. Nimble's purpose
|
||||
is the installation of packages containing libraries and/or applications
|
||||
written in Nim.
|
||||
Even though Nimble is still very young it already is very
|
||||
functional. It can install packages by name, it does so by accessing a
|
||||
packages repository which is hosted on a GitHub repo. Packages can also be
|
||||
installed via a Git repo URL or Mercurial repo URL. The package repository
|
||||
is searchable through Nimble. Anyone is free to add their own packages to
|
||||
the package repository by forking the
|
||||
`nim-lang/packages <https://github.com/nim-lang/packages>`_ repo and creating
|
||||
a pull request. Nimble is fully cross-platform and should be fully functional
|
||||
on all major operating systems.
|
||||
It is of course completely written in Nim.
|
||||
|
||||
Changelog
|
||||
~~~~~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
Changes affecting backwards compatibility
|
||||
-----------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- **The language has been renamed from Nimrod to Nim.** The name of the
|
||||
compiler changed from ``nimrod`` to ``nim`` too.
|
||||
- ``system.fileHandle`` has been renamed to ``system.getFileHandle`` to
|
||||
prevent name conflicts with the new type ``FileHandle``.
|
||||
- Comments are now not part of the AST anymore, as such you cannot use them
|
||||
in place of ``discard``.
|
||||
- Large parts of the stdlib got rid of the T/P type prefixes. Instead most
|
||||
types now simply start with an uppercased letter. The
|
||||
so called "partial case sensitivity" rule is now active allowing for code
|
||||
like ``var foo: Foo`` in more contexts.
|
||||
- String case (or any non-ordinal case) statements
|
||||
without 'else' are deprecated.
|
||||
- Recursive tuple types are not allowed anymore. Use ``object`` instead.
|
||||
- The PEGS module returns ``nil`` instead of ``""`` when an optional capture
|
||||
fails to match.
|
||||
- The re module returns ``nil`` instead of ``""`` when an optional capture
|
||||
fails to match.
|
||||
- The "symmetric set difference" operator (``-+-``) never worked and has been
|
||||
removed.
|
||||
- ``defer`` is a keyword now.
|
||||
- ``func`` is a keyword now.
|
||||
- The ``using`` language feature now needs to be activated via the new
|
||||
``{.experimental.}`` pragma that enables experimental language features.
|
||||
- Destructors are now officially *experimental*.
|
||||
- Standalone ``except`` and ``finally`` statements are deprecated now.
|
||||
The standalone ``finally`` can be replaced with ``defer``,
|
||||
standalone ``except`` requires an explicit ``try``.
|
||||
- Operators ending in ``>`` are considered as "arrow like" and have their
|
||||
own priority level and are right associative. This means that
|
||||
the ``=>`` and ``->`` operators from the `future <future.html>`_ module
|
||||
work better.
|
||||
- Field names in tuples are now ignored for type comparisons. This allows
|
||||
for greater interoperability between different modules.
|
||||
- Statement lists are not converted to an implicit ``do`` block anymore. This
|
||||
means the confusing ``nnkDo`` nodes when working with macros are gone for
|
||||
good.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Language Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- The new concurrency model has been implemented including ``locks`` sections,
|
||||
lock levels and object field ``guards``.
|
||||
- The ``parallel`` statement has been implemented.
|
||||
- ``deepCopy`` has been added to the language.
|
||||
- The builtin ``procCall`` can be used to get ``super``-like functionality
|
||||
for multi methods.
|
||||
- There is a new pragma ``{.experimental.}`` that enables experimental
|
||||
language features per module, or you can enable these features on a global
|
||||
level with the ``--experimental`` command line option.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Compiler Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- The compiler now supports *mixed* Objective C / C++ / C code generation:
|
||||
The modules that use ``importCpp`` or ``importObjc`` are compiled to C++
|
||||
or Objective C code, any other module is compiled to C code. This
|
||||
improves interoperability.
|
||||
- There is a new ``parallel`` statement for safe fork&join parallel computing.
|
||||
- ``guard`` and ``lock`` pragmas have been implemented to support safer
|
||||
concurrent programming.
|
||||
- The following procs are now available at compile-time::
|
||||
|
||||
math.sqrt, math.ln, math.log10, math.log2, math.exp, math.round,
|
||||
math.arccos, math.arcsin, math.arctan, math.arctan2, math.cos,
|
||||
math.cosh, math.hypot, math.sinh, math.sin, math.tan, math.tanh,
|
||||
math.pow, math.trunc, math.floor, math.ceil, math.fmod,
|
||||
os.getEnv, os.existsEnv, os.dirExists, os.fileExists,
|
||||
system.writeFile
|
||||
|
||||
- Two backticks now produce a single backtick within an ``emit`` or ``asm``
|
||||
statement.
|
||||
- There is a new tool, `nimfix <nimfix.html>`_ to help you in updating your
|
||||
code from Nimrod to Nim.
|
||||
- The compiler's output has been prettified.
|
||||
|
||||
Library Additions
|
||||
-----------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Added module ``fenv`` to control the handling of floating-point rounding and
|
||||
exceptions (overflow, division by zero, etc.).
|
||||
- ``system.setupForeignThreadGc`` can be used for better interaction with
|
||||
foreign libraries that create threads and run a Nim callback from these
|
||||
foreign threads.
|
||||
- List comprehensions have been implemented as a macro in the ``future``
|
||||
module.
|
||||
- The new Async module (``asyncnet``) now supports SSL.
|
||||
- The ``smtp`` module now has an async implementation.
|
||||
- Added module ``asyncfile`` which implements asynchronous file reading
|
||||
and writing.
|
||||
- ``osproc.kill`` has been added.
|
||||
- ``asyncnet`` and ``asynchttpserver`` now support ``SO_REUSEADDR``.
|
||||
|
||||
Bugfixes
|
||||
--------
|
||||
|
||||
- ``nil`` and ``NULL`` are now preserved between Nim and databases in the
|
||||
``db_*`` modules.
|
||||
- Fixed issue with OS module in non-unicode mode on Windows.
|
||||
- Fixed issue with ``x.low``
|
||||
(`#1366 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1366>`_).
|
||||
- Fixed tuple unpacking issue inside closure iterators
|
||||
(`#1067 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1067>`_).
|
||||
- Fixed ENDB compilation issues.
|
||||
- Many ``asynchttpserver`` fixes.
|
||||
- Macros can now keep global state across macro calls
|
||||
(`#903 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/903>`_).
|
||||
- ``osproc`` fixes on Windows.
|
||||
- ``osproc.terminate`` fixed.
|
||||
- Improvements to exception handling in async procedures.
|
||||
(`#1487 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1487>`_).
|
||||
- ``try`` now works at compile-time.
|
||||
- Fixes ``T = ref T`` to be an illegal recursive type.
|
||||
- Self imports are now disallowed.
|
||||
- Improved effect inference.
|
||||
- Fixes for the ``math`` module on Windows.
|
||||
- User defined pragmas will now work for generics that have
|
||||
been instantiated in different modules.
|
||||
- Fixed queue exhaustion bug.
|
||||
- Many, many more.
|
||||
396
web/news/2015_04_30_version_0_11_0_released.rst
Normal file
396
web/news/2015_04_30_version_0_11_0_released.rst
Normal file
@@ -0,0 +1,396 @@
|
||||
Version 0.11.0 released
|
||||
=======================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Dominik Picheta on 30/04/2015
|
||||
|
||||
With this release we are one step closer to reaching version 1.0 and by
|
||||
extension the persistence of the Nim specification. As mentioned in the
|
||||
previous release notes, starting with version 1.0, we will not be introducing
|
||||
any more breaking changes to Nim.
|
||||
|
||||
The *language* itself is very close to 1.0, the primary area that requires
|
||||
more work is the standard library.
|
||||
|
||||
Take a look at the `download <download.html>`_ page for binaries (Windows-only)
|
||||
and 0.11.0 snapshots of the source code. The Windows installer now also
|
||||
includes `Aporia <https://github.com/nim-lang/aporia>`_,
|
||||
`Nimble <https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble>`_ and other useful tools to get
|
||||
you started with Nim.
|
||||
|
||||
What's left to be done
|
||||
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
The 1.0 release is expected by the end of this year. Rumors say it will be in
|
||||
summer 2015. What's left:
|
||||
|
||||
* Bug fixes, bug fixes, bug fixes, in particular:
|
||||
- The remaining bugs of the lambda lifting pass that is responsible to enable
|
||||
closures and closure iterators need to be fixed.
|
||||
- ``concept`` needs to be refined, a nice name for the feature is not enough.
|
||||
- Destructors need to be refined.
|
||||
- ``static[T]`` needs to be fixed.
|
||||
- Finish the implementation of the 'parallel' statement.
|
||||
* ``immediate`` templates and macros will be deprecated as these will soon be
|
||||
completely unnecessary, instead the ``typed`` or ``untyped`` metatypes can
|
||||
be used.
|
||||
* More of the standard library should be moved to Nimble packages and what's
|
||||
left should use the features we have for concurrency and parallelism.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Changes affecting backwards compatibility
|
||||
-----------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Parameter names are finally properly ``gensym``'ed. This can break
|
||||
templates though that used to rely on the fact that they are not.
|
||||
(Bug #1915.) This means this doesn't compile anymore:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: nim
|
||||
|
||||
template doIt(body: stmt) {.immediate.} =
|
||||
# this used to inject the 'str' parameter:
|
||||
proc res(str: string) =
|
||||
body
|
||||
|
||||
doIt:
|
||||
echo str # Error: undeclared identifier: 'str'
|
||||
..
|
||||
|
||||
This used to inject the ``str`` parameter into the scope of the body.
|
||||
Declare the ``doIt`` template as ``immediate, dirty`` to get the old
|
||||
behaviour.
|
||||
- Tuple field names are not ignored anymore, this caused too many problems
|
||||
in practice so now the behaviour is as it was for version 0.9.6: If field
|
||||
names exist for the tuple type, they are checked.
|
||||
- ``logging.level`` and ``logging.handlers`` are no longer exported.
|
||||
``addHandler``, ``getHandlers``, ``setLogFilter`` and ``getLogFilter``
|
||||
should be used instead.
|
||||
- ``nim idetools`` has been replaced by a separate
|
||||
tool `nimsuggest <0.11.0/nimsuggest.html>`_.
|
||||
- *arrow like* operators are not right associative anymore and are required
|
||||
to end with either ``->``, ``~>`` or
|
||||
``=>``, not just ``>``. Examples of operators still considered arrow like:
|
||||
``->``, ``==>``, ``+=>``. On the other hand, the following operators are now
|
||||
considered regular operators again: ``|>``, ``-+>``, etc.
|
||||
- Typeless parameters are now only allowed in templates and macros. The old
|
||||
way turned out to be too error-prone.
|
||||
- The 'addr' and 'type' operators are now parsed as unary function
|
||||
application. This means ``type(x).name`` is now parsed as ``(type(x)).name``
|
||||
and not as ``type((x).name)``. Note that this also affects the AST
|
||||
structure; for immediate macro parameters ``nkCall('addr', 'x')`` is
|
||||
produced instead of ``nkAddr('x')``.
|
||||
- ``concept`` is now a keyword and is used instead of ``generic``.
|
||||
- The ``inc``, ``dec``, ``+=``, ``-=`` builtins now produce OverflowError
|
||||
exceptions. This means code like the following:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: nim
|
||||
var x = low(T)
|
||||
while x <= high(T):
|
||||
echo x
|
||||
inc x
|
||||
|
||||
Needs to be replaced by something like this:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: nim
|
||||
var x = low(T).int
|
||||
while x <= high(T).int:
|
||||
echo x.T
|
||||
inc x
|
||||
|
||||
- **Negative indexing for slicing does not work anymore!** Instead
|
||||
of ``a[0.. -1]`` you can
|
||||
use ``a[0.. ^1]``. This also works with accessing a single
|
||||
element ``a[^1]``. Note that we cannot detect this reliably as it is
|
||||
determined at **runtime** whether negative indexing is used!
|
||||
``a[0.. -1]`` now produces the empty string/sequence.
|
||||
- The compiler now warns about code like ``foo +=1`` which uses inconsistent
|
||||
spacing around binary operators. Later versions of the language will parse
|
||||
these as unary operators instead so that ``echo $foo`` finally can do what
|
||||
people expect it to do.
|
||||
- ``system.untyped`` and ``system.typed`` have been introduced as aliases
|
||||
for ``expr`` and ``stmt``. The new names capture the semantics much better
|
||||
and most likely ``expr`` and ``stmt`` will be deprecated in favor of the
|
||||
new names.
|
||||
- The ``split`` method in module ``re`` has changed. It now handles the case
|
||||
of matches having a length of 0, and empty strings being yielded from the
|
||||
iterator. A notable change might be that a pattern being matched at the
|
||||
beginning and end of a string, will result in an empty string being produced
|
||||
at the start and the end of the iterator.
|
||||
- The compiler and nimsuggest now count columns starting with 1, not 0 for
|
||||
consistency with the rest of the world.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Language Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- For empty ``case object`` branches ``discard`` can finally be used instead
|
||||
of ``nil``.
|
||||
- Automatic dereferencing is now done for the first argument of a routine
|
||||
call if overloading resolution produces no match otherwise. This feature
|
||||
has to be enabled with
|
||||
the `experimental <0.11.0/manual.html#pragmas-experimental-pragma>`_ pragma.
|
||||
- Objects that do not use inheritance nor ``case`` can be put into ``const``
|
||||
sections. This means that finally this is possible and produces rather
|
||||
nice code:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: nim
|
||||
import tables
|
||||
|
||||
const
|
||||
foo = {"ah": "finally", "this": "is", "possible.": "nice!"}.toTable()
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
- Ordinary parameters can follow after a varargs parameter. This means the
|
||||
following is finally accepted by the compiler:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: nim
|
||||
template takesBlock(a, b: int, x: varargs[expr]; blck: stmt) =
|
||||
blck
|
||||
echo a, b
|
||||
|
||||
takesBlock 1, 2, "some", 0.90, "random stuff":
|
||||
echo "yay"
|
||||
|
||||
- Overloading by 'var T' is now finally possible:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: nim
|
||||
proc varOrConst(x: var int) = echo "var"
|
||||
proc varOrConst(x: int) = echo "const"
|
||||
|
||||
var x: int
|
||||
varOrConst(x) # "var"
|
||||
varOrConst(45) # "const"
|
||||
|
||||
- Array and seq indexing can now use the builtin ``^`` operator to access
|
||||
things from backwards: ``a[^1]`` is like Python's ``a[-1]``.
|
||||
- A first version of the specification and implementation of the overloading
|
||||
of the assignment operator has arrived!
|
||||
- ``system.len`` for strings and sequences now returns 0 for nil.
|
||||
|
||||
- A single underscore can now be used to discard values when unpacking tuples:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: nim
|
||||
let (path, _, _) = os.splitFile("path/file.ext")
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
- ``marshal.$$`` and ``marshal.to`` can be executed at compile-time.
|
||||
- Interoperability with C++ improved tremendously; C++'s templates and
|
||||
operators can be wrapped directly. See
|
||||
`this <0.11.0/nimc.html#additional-features-importcpp-pragma>`_
|
||||
for more information.
|
||||
- ``macros.getType`` can be used to query an AST's type at compile-time. This
|
||||
enables more powerful macros, for instance *currying* can now be done with
|
||||
a macro.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Library additions
|
||||
-----------------
|
||||
|
||||
- ``reversed`` proc added to the ``unicode`` module.
|
||||
- Added multipart param to httpclient's ``post`` and ``postContent`` together
|
||||
with a ``newMultipartData`` proc.
|
||||
- Added `%*` operator for JSON.
|
||||
- The compiler is now available as Nimble package for c2nim.
|
||||
- Added ``..^`` and ``..<`` templates to system so that the rather annoying
|
||||
space between ``.. <`` and ``.. ^`` is not necessary anymore.
|
||||
- Added ``system.xlen`` for strings and sequences to get back the old ``len``
|
||||
operation that doesn't check for ``nil`` for efficiency.
|
||||
- Added sexp.nim to parse and generate sexp.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Bugfixes
|
||||
--------
|
||||
|
||||
- Fixed internal compiler error when using ``char()`` in an echo call
|
||||
(`#1788 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1788>`_).
|
||||
- Fixed Windows cross-compilation on Linux.
|
||||
- Overload resolution now works for types distinguished only by a
|
||||
``static[int]`` param
|
||||
(`#1056 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1056>`_).
|
||||
- Other fixes relating to generic types and static params.
|
||||
- Fixed some compiler crashes with unnamed tuples
|
||||
(`#1774 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1774>`_).
|
||||
- Fixed ``channels.tryRecv`` blocking
|
||||
(`#1816 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1816>`_).
|
||||
- Fixed generic instantiation errors with ``typedesc``
|
||||
(`#419 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/419>`_).
|
||||
- Fixed generic regression where the compiler no longer detected constant
|
||||
expressions properly (`#544 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/544>`_).
|
||||
- Fixed internal error with generic proc using ``static[T]`` in a specific
|
||||
way (`#1049 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1049>`_).
|
||||
- More fixes relating to generics (`#1820 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1820>`_,
|
||||
`#1050 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1050>`_,
|
||||
`#1859 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1859>`_,
|
||||
`#1858 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1858>`_).
|
||||
- Fixed httpclient to properly encode queries.
|
||||
- Many fixes to the ``uri`` module.
|
||||
- Async sockets are now closed on error.
|
||||
- Fixes to httpclient's handling of multipart data.
|
||||
- Fixed GC segfaults with asynchronous sockets
|
||||
(`#1796 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1796>`_).
|
||||
- Added more versions to openssl's DLL version list
|
||||
(`076f993 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/commit/076f993>`_).
|
||||
- Fixed shallow copy in iterators being broken
|
||||
(`#1803 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1803>`_).
|
||||
- ``nil`` can now be inserted into tables with the ``db_sqlite`` module
|
||||
(`#1866 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1866>`_).
|
||||
- Fixed "Incorrect assembler generated"
|
||||
(`#1907 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1907>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Expression templates that define macros are unusable in some contexts"
|
||||
(`#1903 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1903>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "a second level generic subclass causes the compiler to crash"
|
||||
(`#1919 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1919>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "nim 0.10.2 generates invalid AsyncHttpClient C code for MSVC "
|
||||
(`#1901 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1901>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "1 shl n produces wrong C code"
|
||||
(`#1928 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1928>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Internal error on tuple yield"
|
||||
(`#1838 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1838>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "ICE with template"
|
||||
(`#1915 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1915>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "include the tool directory in the installer as it is required by koch"
|
||||
(`#1947 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1947>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Can't compile if file location contains spaces on Windows"
|
||||
(`#1955 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1955>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "List comprehension macro only supports infix checks as guards"
|
||||
(`#1920 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1920>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "wrong field names of compatible tuples in generic types"
|
||||
(`#1910 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1910>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Macros within templates no longer work as expected"
|
||||
(`#1944 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1944>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Compiling for Standalone AVR broken in 0.10.2"
|
||||
(`#1964 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1964>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Compiling for Standalone AVR broken in 0.10.2"
|
||||
(`#1964 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1964>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Code generation for mitems with tuple elements"
|
||||
(`#1833 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1833>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "httpclient.HttpMethod should not be an enum"
|
||||
(`#1962 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1962>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "terminal / eraseScreen() throws an OverflowError"
|
||||
(`#1906 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1906>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "setControlCHook(nil) disables registered quit procs"
|
||||
(`#1546 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1546>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Unexpected idetools behaviour"
|
||||
(`#325 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/325>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Unused lifted lambda does not compile"
|
||||
(`#1642 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1642>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "'low' and 'high' don't work with cstring asguments"
|
||||
(`#2030 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2030>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Converting to int does not round in JS backend"
|
||||
(`#1959 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1959>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Internal error genRecordField 2 when adding region to pointer."
|
||||
(`#2039 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2039>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Macros fail to compile when compiled with --os:standalone"
|
||||
(`#2041 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2041>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Reading from {.compileTime.} variables can cause code generation to fail"
|
||||
(`#2022 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2022>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Passing overloaded symbols to templates fails inside generic procedures"
|
||||
(`#1988 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1988>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Compiling iterator with object assignment in release mode causes "var not init""
|
||||
(`#2023 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2023>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "calling a large number of macros doing some computation fails"
|
||||
(`#1989 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1989>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Can't get Koch to install nim under Windows"
|
||||
(`#2061 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2061>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Template with two stmt parameters segfaults compiler"
|
||||
(`#2057 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2057>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "`noSideEffect` not affected by `echo`"
|
||||
(`#2011 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2011>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Compiling with the cpp backend ignores --passc"
|
||||
(`#1601 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1601>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Put untyped procedure parameters behind the experimental pragma"
|
||||
(`#1956 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1956>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "generic regression"
|
||||
(`#2073 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2073>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "generic regression"
|
||||
(`#2073 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2073>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Regression in template lookup with generics"
|
||||
(`#2004 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2004>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "GC's growObj is wrong for edge cases"
|
||||
(`#2070 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2070>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Compiler internal error when creating an array out of a typeclass"
|
||||
(`#1131 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1131>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "GC's growObj is wrong for edge cases"
|
||||
(`#2070 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2070>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Invalid Objective-C code generated when calling class method"
|
||||
(`#2068 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2068>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "walkDirRec Error"
|
||||
(`#2116 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2116>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Typo in code causes compiler SIGSEGV in evalAtCompileTime"
|
||||
(`#2113 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2113>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Regression on exportc"
|
||||
(`#2118 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2118>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Error message"
|
||||
(`#2102 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2102>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "hint[path] = off not working in nim.cfg"
|
||||
(`#2103 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2103>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "compiler crashes when getting a tuple from a sequence of generic tuples"
|
||||
(`#2121 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2121>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "nim check hangs with when"
|
||||
(`#2123 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2123>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "static[T] param in nested type resolve/caching issue"
|
||||
(`#2125 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2125>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "repr should display ``\0``"
|
||||
(`#2124 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2124>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "'nim check' never ends in case of recursive dependency "
|
||||
(`#2051 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2051>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "From macros: Error: unhandled exception: sons is not accessible"
|
||||
(`#2167 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2167>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "`fieldPairs` doesn't work inside templates"
|
||||
(`#1902 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1902>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "fields iterator misbehavior on break statement"
|
||||
(`#2134 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2134>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Fix for compiler not building anymore since #c3244ef1ff"
|
||||
(`#2193 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2193>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "JSON parser fails in cpp output mode"
|
||||
(`#2199 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2199>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "macros.getType mishandles void return"
|
||||
(`#2211 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2211>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Regression involving templates instantiated within generics"
|
||||
(`#2215 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2215>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed ""Error: invalid type" for 'not nil' on generic type."
|
||||
(`#2216 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2216>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "--threads:on breaks async"
|
||||
(`#2074 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2074>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Type mismatch not always caught, can generate bad code for C backend."
|
||||
(`#2169 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2169>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Failed C compilation when storing proc to own type in object"
|
||||
(`#2233 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2233>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Unknown line/column number in constant declaration type conversion error"
|
||||
(`#2252 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2252>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Adding {.compile.} fails if nimcache already exists."
|
||||
(`#2247 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2247>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Two different type names generated for a single type (C backend)"
|
||||
(`#2250 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2250>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Ambigous call when it should not be"
|
||||
(`#2229 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2229>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Make sure we can load root urls"
|
||||
(`#2227 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2227>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Failure to slice a string with an int subrange type"
|
||||
(`#794 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/794>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "documentation error"
|
||||
(`#2205 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2205>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Code growth when using `const`"
|
||||
(`#1940 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1940>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Instances of generic types confuse overload resolution"
|
||||
(`#2220 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2220>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Compiler error when initializing sdl2's EventType"
|
||||
(`#2316 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2316>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Parallel disjoint checking can't handle `<`, `items`, or arrays"
|
||||
(`#2287 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2287>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Strings aren't copied in parallel loop"
|
||||
(`#2286 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2286>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "JavaScript compiler crash with tables"
|
||||
(`#2298 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2298>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Range checker too restrictive"
|
||||
(`#1845 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1845>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Failure to slice a string with an int subrange type"
|
||||
(`#794 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/794>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Remind user when compiling in debug mode"
|
||||
(`#1868 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1868>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Compiler user guide has jumbled options/commands."
|
||||
(`#1819 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1819>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "using `method`: 1 in a objects constructor fails when compiling"
|
||||
(`#1791 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1791>`_)
|
||||
12
web/news/2015_05_04_version_0_11_2_released.rst
Normal file
12
web/news/2015_05_04_version_0_11_2_released.rst
Normal file
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
|
||||
Version 0.11.2 released
|
||||
==================================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Andreas Rumpf on 04/05/2015
|
||||
|
||||
This is just a bugfix release that fixes the most pressing regressions we
|
||||
introduced with version 0.11.0. The way types are computed was
|
||||
changed significantly causing all sort of problems. Sorry for the
|
||||
inconvenience; we grew overconfident our large test suite would prevent these
|
||||
things.
|
||||
26
web/news/2015_10_16_first_nim_conference.rst
Normal file
26
web/news/2015_10_16_first_nim_conference.rst
Normal file
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
|
||||
First Nim conference
|
||||
====================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Dominik Picheta on 16/10/2015
|
||||
|
||||
.. raw::html
|
||||
|
||||
<img src="../assets/zeo/banner.jpg" alt="First Nim conference in Ukraine!" width="682"/>
|
||||
|
||||
This Autumn you have the unique opportunity to take part in the first Nim event
|
||||
held in Kyiv and to meet the creator of the Nim programming language -
|
||||
Andreas Rumpf. The event is hosted by Zeo Alliance and is taking place between
|
||||
14-15 November 2015 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
|
||||
|
||||
During the workshop you will learn:
|
||||
|
||||
- The basics of the language including its safe and unsafe subsets.
|
||||
- How to use Nim to develop web applications.
|
||||
- How Nim's meta programming capabilities make Nim the ultimate glue language,
|
||||
excellent at interoperability with C++, JavaScript, Java and others.
|
||||
- Games in Nim and the ability to rapidly prototype without sacrificing speed.
|
||||
|
||||
Registration is free, but the number of places is limited. More details
|
||||
can be found `here <https://nimworkshop.splashthat.com/>`_.
|
||||
403
web/news/2015_10_27_version_0_12_0_released.rst
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403
web/news/2015_10_27_version_0_12_0_released.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,403 @@
|
||||
2015-10-27 Version 0.12.0 released
|
||||
==================================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Dominik Picheta on 27/10/2015
|
||||
|
||||
The Nim community of developers is proud to announce the new version of the
|
||||
Nim compiler. This has been a long time coming as the last release has been
|
||||
made over 5 months ago!
|
||||
|
||||
This release includes some changes which affect backwards compatibility,
|
||||
one major change is that now the hash table ``[]`` operators now raise a
|
||||
``KeyError`` exception when the key does not exist.
|
||||
|
||||
Some of the more exciting new features include: the ability to unpack tuples
|
||||
in any assignment context, the introduction of `NimScript <docs/nims.html>`_,
|
||||
and improvements to the type inference of lambdas.
|
||||
|
||||
There are of course many many many bug fixes included with this release.
|
||||
We are getting closer and closer to a 1.0 release and are hoping that only
|
||||
a few 0.x releases will be necessary before we are happy to release version 1.0.
|
||||
|
||||
As always you can download the latest version of Nim from the
|
||||
`download <download.html>`_ page.
|
||||
|
||||
For a more detailed list of changes look below. Some of the upcoming breaking
|
||||
changes are also documented in this forum
|
||||
`thread <http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/1708>`_.
|
||||
|
||||
Changes affecting backwards compatibility
|
||||
-----------------------------------------
|
||||
- The regular expression modules, ``re`` and ``nre`` now depend on version
|
||||
8.36 of PCRE. If you have an older version you may see a message similar
|
||||
to ``could not import: pcre_free_study`` output when you start your
|
||||
program. See `this issue <https://github.com/docopt/docopt.nim/issues/13>`_
|
||||
for more information.
|
||||
- ``tables.[]``, ``strtabs.[]``, ``critbits.[]`` **now raise**
|
||||
the ``KeyError`` **exception when the key does not exist**! Use the
|
||||
new ``getOrDefault`` instead to get the old behaviour. Compile all your
|
||||
code with ``-d:nimTableGet`` to get a listing of where your code
|
||||
uses ``[]``!
|
||||
- The ``rawsockets`` module has been renamed to ``nativesockets`` to avoid
|
||||
confusion with TCP/IP raw sockets, so ``newNativeSocket`` should be used
|
||||
instead of ``newRawSocket``.
|
||||
- The ``miliseconds`` property of ``times.TimeInterval`` is now ``milliseconds``.
|
||||
Code accessing that property is deprecated and code using ``miliseconds``
|
||||
during object initialization or as a named parameter of ``initInterval()``
|
||||
will need to be updated.
|
||||
- ``std.logging`` functions no longer do formatting and semantically treat
|
||||
their arguments just like ``echo`` does. Affected functions: ``log``,
|
||||
``debug``, ``info``, ``warn``, ``error``, ``fatal``. Custom subtypes of
|
||||
``Logger`` also need to be adjusted accordingly.
|
||||
- Floating point numbers can now look like ``2d`` (float64)
|
||||
and ``2f`` (float32) which means imports like ``import scene/2d/sprite``
|
||||
do not work anymore. Instead quotes have to be
|
||||
used: ``import "scene/2d/sprite"``. The former code never was valid Nim.
|
||||
- The Windows API wrapper (``windows.nim``) is now not part of the official
|
||||
distribution anymore. Instead use the ``oldwinapi`` Nimble package.
|
||||
- There is now a clear distinction between ``--os:standalone``
|
||||
and ``--gc:none``. So if you use ``--os:standalone`` ensure you also use
|
||||
``--gc:none``. ``--os:standalone`` without ``--gc:none`` is now a version
|
||||
that doesn't depend on any OS but includes the GC. However this version
|
||||
is currently untested!
|
||||
- All procedures which construct a ``Socket``/``AsyncSocket`` now need to
|
||||
specify the socket domain, type and protocol. The param name
|
||||
``typ: SockType`` (in ``newSocket``/``newAsyncSocket`` procs) was also
|
||||
renamed to ``sockType``. The param ``af`` in the ``connect`` procs was
|
||||
removed. This affects ``asyncnet``, ``asyncdispatch``, ``net``, and
|
||||
``rawsockets``.
|
||||
- ``varargs[typed]`` and ``varargs[untyped]`` have been refined and now work
|
||||
as expected. However ``varargs[untyped]`` is not an alias anymore for
|
||||
``varargs[expr]``. So if your code breaks for ``varargs[untyped]``, use
|
||||
``varargs[expr]`` instead. The same applies to ``varargs[typed]`` vs
|
||||
``varargs[stmt]``.
|
||||
- ``sequtils.delete`` doesn't take confusing default arguments anymore.
|
||||
- ``system.free`` was an error-prone alias to ``system.dealloc`` and has
|
||||
been removed.
|
||||
- ``macros.high`` never worked and the manual says ``high`` cannot be
|
||||
overloaded, so we removed it with no deprecation cycle.
|
||||
- To use the ``parallel`` statement you now have to
|
||||
use the ``--experimental`` mode.
|
||||
- Toplevel procs of calling convention ``closure`` never worked reliably
|
||||
and are now deprecated and will be removed from the language. Instead you
|
||||
have to insert type conversions
|
||||
like ``(proc (a, b: int) {.closure.})(myToplevelProc)`` if necessary.
|
||||
- The modules ``libffi``, ``sdl``, ``windows``, ``zipfiles``, ``libzip``,
|
||||
``zlib``, ``zzip``, ``dialogs``, ``expat``, ``graphics``, ``libcurl``,
|
||||
``sphinx`` have been moved out of the stdlib and are Nimble packages now.
|
||||
- The constant fights between 32 and 64 bit DLLs on Windows have been put to
|
||||
an end: The standard distribution now ships with 32 and 64 bit versions
|
||||
of all the DLLs the standard library needs. This means that the following
|
||||
DLLs are now split into 32 and 64 versions:
|
||||
|
||||
* ``pcre.dll``: Split into ``pcre32.dll`` and ``pcre64.dll``.
|
||||
* ``pdcurses.dll``: Split into ``pdcurses32.dll`` and ``pdcurses64.dll``.
|
||||
* ``sqlite3.dll``: Split into ``sqlite3_32.dll`` and ``sqlite3_64.dll``.
|
||||
* ``ssleay32.dll``: Split into ``ssleay32.dll`` and ``ssleay64.dll``.
|
||||
* ``libeay32.dll``: Split into ``libeay32.dll`` and ``libeay64.dll``.
|
||||
|
||||
Compile with ``-d:nimOldDLLs`` to make the stdlib use the old DLL names.
|
||||
- Nim VM now treats objects as ``nkObjConstr`` nodes, and not ``nkPar`` nodes
|
||||
as it was previously. Macros that generate ``nkPar`` nodes when object is
|
||||
expected are likely to break. Macros that expect ``nkPar`` nodes to which
|
||||
objects are passed are likely to break as well.
|
||||
- Base methods now need to be annotated with the ``base`` pragma. This makes
|
||||
multi methods less error-prone to use with the effect system.
|
||||
- Nim's parser directive ``#!`` is now ``#?`` in order to produce no conflicts
|
||||
with Unix's ``#!``.
|
||||
- An implicit return type for an iterator is now deprecated. Use ``auto`` if
|
||||
you want more type inference.
|
||||
- The type ``auto`` is now a "multi-bind" metatype, so the following compiles:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: nim
|
||||
proc f(x, y: auto): auto =
|
||||
result = $x & y
|
||||
|
||||
echo f(0, "abc")
|
||||
- The ``ftpclient`` module is now deprecated in favour of the
|
||||
``asyncftpclient`` module.
|
||||
- In sequtils.nim renamed ``repeat`` function to ``cycle`` (concatenating
|
||||
a sequence by itself the given times), and also introduced ``repeat``,
|
||||
which repeats an element the given times.
|
||||
- The function ``map`` is moved to sequtils.nim. The inplace ``map`` version
|
||||
is renamed to ``apply``.
|
||||
- The template ``mapIt`` now doesn't require the result's type parameter.
|
||||
Also the inplace ``mapIt`` is renamed to ``apply``.
|
||||
- The compiler is now stricter with what is allowed as a case object
|
||||
discriminator. The following code used to compile but was not supported
|
||||
completely and so now fails:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: nim
|
||||
type
|
||||
DataType* {.pure.} = enum
|
||||
Char = 1,
|
||||
Int8 = 2,
|
||||
Int16 = 3,
|
||||
Int32 = 4,
|
||||
Int64 = 5,
|
||||
Float32 = 6,
|
||||
Float64 = 7
|
||||
|
||||
DataSeq* = object
|
||||
case kind* : DataType
|
||||
of DataType.Char: charSeq* : seq[char]
|
||||
of DataType.Int8: int8Seq* : seq[int8]
|
||||
of DataType.Int16: int16Seq* : seq[int16]
|
||||
of DataType.Int32: int32Seq* : seq[int32]
|
||||
of DataType.Int64: int64Seq* : seq[int64]
|
||||
of DataType.Float32: float32Seq* : seq[float32]
|
||||
of DataType.Float64: float64Seq* : seq[float64]
|
||||
|
||||
length* : int
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Library Additions
|
||||
-----------------
|
||||
|
||||
- The nre module has been added, providing a better interface to PCRE than re.
|
||||
- The ``expandSymlink`` proc has been added to the ``os`` module.
|
||||
- The ``tailDir`` proc has been added to the ``os`` module.
|
||||
- Define ``nimPinToCpu`` to make the ``threadpool`` use explicit thread
|
||||
affinities. This can speed up or slow down the thread pool; it's up to you
|
||||
to benchmark it.
|
||||
- ``strutils.formatFloat`` and ``formatBiggestFloat`` do not depend on the C
|
||||
locale anymore and now take an optional ``decimalSep = '.'`` parameter.
|
||||
- Added ``unicode.lastRune``, ``unicode.graphemeLen``.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Compiler Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- The compiler now supports a new configuration system based on
|
||||
`NimScript <docs/nims.html>`_.
|
||||
- The compiler finally considers symbol binding rules in templates and
|
||||
generics for overloaded ``[]``, ``[]=``, ``{}``, ``{}=`` operators
|
||||
(issue `#2599 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/2599>`_).
|
||||
- The compiler now supports a `bitsize pragma <docs/manual.html#pragmas-bitsize-pragma>`_
|
||||
for constructing bitfields.
|
||||
- Added a new ``--reportConceptFailures`` switch for better debugging of
|
||||
concept related type mismatches. This can also be used to debug
|
||||
``system.compiles`` failures.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Language Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- ``system.unsafeAddr`` can be used to access the address of a ``let``
|
||||
variable or parameter for C interoperability. Since technically this
|
||||
makes parameters and ``let`` variables mutable, it is considered even more
|
||||
unsafe than the ordinary ``addr`` builtin.
|
||||
- Added ``macros.getImpl`` that can be used to access the implementation of
|
||||
a routine or a constant. This allows for example for user-defined inlining
|
||||
of function calls.
|
||||
- Tuple unpacking finally works in a non-var/let context: ``(x, y) = f()``
|
||||
is allowed. Note that this doesn't declare ``x`` and ``y`` variables, for
|
||||
this ``let (x, y) = f()`` still needs to be used.
|
||||
- ``when nimvm`` can now be used for compiletime versions of some code
|
||||
sections. Click `here <docs/manual.html#when-nimvm-statement>`_ for details.
|
||||
- Usage of the type ``NimNode`` in a proc now implicitly annotates the proc
|
||||
with ``.compileTime``. This means generics work much better for ``NimNode``.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Bugfixes
|
||||
--------
|
||||
- Fixed "Compiler internal error on iterator it(T: typedesc[Base]) called with it(Child), where Child = object of Base"
|
||||
(`#2662 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2662>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "repr() misses base object field in 2nd level derived object"
|
||||
(`#2749 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2749>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "nimsuggest doesn't work more than once on the non-main file"
|
||||
(`#2694 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2694>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "JS Codegen. Passing arguments by var in certain cases leads to invalid JS."
|
||||
(`#2798 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2798>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed ""check" proc in unittest.nim prevents the propagation of changes to var parameters."
|
||||
(`#964 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/964>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Excessive letters in integer literals are not an error"
|
||||
(`#2523 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2523>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Unicode dashes as "lisp'ish" alternative to hump and snake notation"
|
||||
(`#2811 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2811>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Bad error message when trying to construct an object incorrectly"
|
||||
(`#2584 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2584>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Determination of GC safety of globals is broken "
|
||||
(`#2854 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2854>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "v2 gc crashes compiler"
|
||||
(`#2687 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2687>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Compile error using object in const array"
|
||||
(`#2774 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2774>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "httpclient async requests with method httpPOST isn't sending Content-Length header"
|
||||
(`#2884 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2884>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Streams module not working with JS backend"
|
||||
(`#2148 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2148>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Sign of certain short constants is wrong"
|
||||
(`#1179 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1179>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Symlinks to directories reported as symlinks to files"
|
||||
(`#1985 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1985>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "64-bit literals broken on x86"
|
||||
(`#2909 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2909>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "import broken for certain names"
|
||||
(`#2904 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2904>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Invalid UTF-8 strings in JavaScript"
|
||||
(`#2917 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2917>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "[JS][Codegen] Initialising object doesn't create unmentioned fields."
|
||||
|
||||
(`#2617 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2617>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Table returned from proc computed at compile time is missing keys:"
|
||||
(`#2297 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2297>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Clarify copyright status for some files"
|
||||
(`#2949 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2949>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "math.nim: trigonometry: radians to degrees conversion"
|
||||
(`#2881 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2881>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "xoring unsigned integers yields RangeError in certain conditions"
|
||||
(`#2979 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2979>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Directly checking equality between procs"
|
||||
(`#2985 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2985>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Compiler crashed, but there have to be meaningful error message"
|
||||
(`#2974 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2974>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "repr is broken"
|
||||
(`#2992 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2992>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Ipv6 devel - add IPv6 support for asyncsockets, make AF_INET6 a default"
|
||||
(`#2976 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2976>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Compilation broken on windows"
|
||||
(`#2996 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2996>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "'u64 literal conversion compiler error"
|
||||
(`#2731 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2731>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Importing 'impure' libraries while using threads causes segfaults"
|
||||
(`#2672 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2672>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Uncatched exception in async procedure on raise statement"
|
||||
(`#3014 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3014>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "nim doc2 fails in Mac OS X due to system.nim (possibly related to #1898)"
|
||||
(`#3005 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3005>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "IndexError when rebuilding Nim on iteration 2"
|
||||
(`#3018 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3018>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Assigning large const set to variable looses some information"
|
||||
(`#2880 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2880>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Inconsistent generics behavior"
|
||||
(`#3022 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3022>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Compiler breaks on float64 division"
|
||||
(`#3028 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3028>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Confusing error message comparing string to nil "
|
||||
(`#2935 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2935>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "convert 64bit number to float on 32bit"
|
||||
(`#1463 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1463>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Type redefinition and construction will break nim check"
|
||||
(`#3032 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3032>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "XmlParser fails on very large XML files without new lines"
|
||||
(`#2429 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2429>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Error parsing arguments with whitespaces"
|
||||
(`#2874 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2874>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Crash when missing one arg and used a named arg"
|
||||
(`#2993 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2993>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Wrong number of arguments in assert will break nim check"
|
||||
(`#3044 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3044>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Wrong const definition will break nim check"
|
||||
(`#3041 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3041>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Wrong set declaration will break nim check"
|
||||
(`#3040 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3040>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Compiler segfault (type section)"
|
||||
(`#2540 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2540>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Segmentation fault when compiling this code"
|
||||
(`#3038 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3038>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Kill nim i"
|
||||
(`#2633 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2633>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Nim check will break on wrong array declaration"
|
||||
(`#3048 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3048>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "boolVal seems to be broken"
|
||||
(`#3046 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3046>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Nim check crashes on wrong set/array declaration inside ref object"
|
||||
(`#3062 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3062>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Nim check crashes on incorrect generic arg definition"
|
||||
(`#3051 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3051>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Nim check crashes on iterating nonexistent var"
|
||||
(`#3053 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3053>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Nim check crashes on wrong param set declaration + iteration"
|
||||
(`#3054 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3054>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Wrong sharing of static_t instantations"
|
||||
(`#3112 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3112>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Automatically generated proc conflicts with user-defined proc when .exportc.'ed"
|
||||
(`#3134 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3134>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "getTypeInfo call crashes nim"
|
||||
(`#3099 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3099>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Array ptr dereference"
|
||||
(`#2963 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2963>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Internal error when `repr`-ing a type directly"
|
||||
(`#3079 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3079>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "unknown type name 'TNimType' after importing typeinfo module"
|
||||
(`#2841 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2841>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Can export a template twice and from inside a block"
|
||||
(`#1738 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1738>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "C Codegen: C Types are defined after their usage in certain cases"
|
||||
(`#2823 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2823>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "s.high refers to the current seq instead of the old one"
|
||||
(`#1832 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1832>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Error while unmarshaling null values"
|
||||
(`#3149 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3149>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Inference of `static[T]` in sequences"
|
||||
(`#3144 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3144>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Argument named "closure" to proc inside template interfere with closure pragma"
|
||||
(`#3171 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3171>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Internal error with aliasing inside template"
|
||||
(`#3158 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3158>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Cardinality of sets prints unexpected value"
|
||||
(`#3135 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3135>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Nim crashes on const assignment from function returning var ref object"
|
||||
(`#3103 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3103>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "`repr` cstring"
|
||||
(`#3080 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3080>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Nim check crashes on wrong enum declaration"
|
||||
(`#3052 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3052>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Compiler assertion when evaluating template with static[T]"
|
||||
(`#1858 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1858>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Erroneous overflow in iterators when compiler built with overflowChecks enabled"
|
||||
(`#3140 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3140>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Unicode dashes as "lisp'ish" alternative to hump and snake notation"
|
||||
(`#2811 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2811>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Calling discardable proc from a defer is an error."
|
||||
(`#3185 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3185>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Defer statement at the end of a block produces ICE"
|
||||
(`#3186 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3186>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Call to `createU` fails to compile"
|
||||
(`#3193 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3193>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "VM crash when accessing array's element"
|
||||
(`#3192 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3192>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Unexpected proc invoked when different modules add procs to a type from a 3rd module"
|
||||
(`#2664 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2664>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Nim crashes on conditional declaration inside a template"
|
||||
(`#2670 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2670>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Iterator names conflict within different scopes"
|
||||
(`#2752 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2752>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "VM: Cannot assign int value to ref variable"
|
||||
(`#1329 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1329>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Incorrect code generated for tagged unions with enums not starting at zero"
|
||||
(`#3096 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3096>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Compile time procs using forward declarations are silently ignored"
|
||||
(`#3066 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3066>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "re binding error in generic"
|
||||
(`#1965 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1965>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "os.getCreationTime is incorrect/impossible on Posix systems"
|
||||
(`#1058 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1058>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Improve error message for osproc.startProcess when command does not exist"
|
||||
(`#2183 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2183>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "gctest segfaults with --gc:markandsweep on x86_64"
|
||||
(`#2305 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2305>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Coroutine changes break compilation on unsupported architectures"
|
||||
(`#3245 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3245>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Bugfix: Windows 32bit TinyCC support issue fixed"
|
||||
(`#3237 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3237>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "db_mysql getValue() followed by exec() causing error"
|
||||
(`#3220 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3220>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "xmltree.newEntity creates xnCData instead of xnEntity"
|
||||
(`#3282 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3282>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Methods and modules don't work together"
|
||||
(`#2590 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2590>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "String slicing not working in the vm"
|
||||
(`#3300 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3300>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "internal error: evalOp(mTypeOf)"
|
||||
(`#3230 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3230>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "#! source code prefix collides with Unix Shebang"
|
||||
(`#2559 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/2559>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "wrong codegen for constant object"
|
||||
(`#3195 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/3195>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Doc comments inside procs with implicit returns don't work"
|
||||
(`#1528 <https://github.com/Araq/Nim/issues/1528>`_)
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
|
||||
Andreas Rumpf's talk at OSCON Amsterdam
|
||||
==================================================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Dominik Picheta on 18/01/2016
|
||||
|
||||
In case you have missed it, here is Andreas' Nim: An Overview talk at
|
||||
OSCON Amsterdam.
|
||||
|
||||
.. raw:: html
|
||||
|
||||
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4rJEBs_Nnaw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
|
||||
182
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182
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|
||||
Version 0.13.0 released
|
||||
=======================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Dominik Picheta on 18/01/2016
|
||||
|
||||
Once again we are proud to announce the latest release of the Nim compiler
|
||||
and related tools. This release comes just 3 months after the last
|
||||
release!
|
||||
|
||||
A new version of Nimble which depends on this release, has also been
|
||||
released. See `this <http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/1912>`_ forum thread for
|
||||
more information about the Nimble release.
|
||||
|
||||
This release of Nim includes over 116 bug fixes, many of which are related
|
||||
to closures. The lambda lifting algorithm in the compiler has been completely
|
||||
rewritten, and some changes have been made to the semantics of closures in
|
||||
Nim as a result. These changes may affect backwards compatibility and are all
|
||||
described in the section below.
|
||||
|
||||
With this release, we are one step closer to Nim version 1.0.
|
||||
The 1.0 release will be a big milestone for Nim, because after that version
|
||||
is released there will be no more breaking changes made to the language
|
||||
or the standard library.
|
||||
|
||||
That being said, the next release will likely be Nim 0.14. It will focus on
|
||||
improvements to the GC and concurrency. We will in particular be looking at
|
||||
ways to add multi-core support to async await. Standard library improvements
|
||||
are also on our roadmap but may not make it for Nim 0.14.
|
||||
|
||||
As always you can download the latest version of Nim from the
|
||||
`download <download.html>`_ page.
|
||||
|
||||
Happy coding!
|
||||
|
||||
Changes affecting backwards compatibility
|
||||
-----------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- ``macros.newLit`` for ``bool`` now produces false/true symbols which
|
||||
actually work with the bool datatype.
|
||||
- When compiling to JS: ``Node``, ``NodeType`` and ``Document`` are no longer
|
||||
defined. Use the types defined in ``dom.nim`` instead.
|
||||
- The check ``x is iterator`` (used for instance in concepts) was always a
|
||||
weird special case (you could not use ``x is proc``) and was removed from
|
||||
the language.
|
||||
- Top level routines cannot have the calling convention ``closure``
|
||||
anymore.
|
||||
- The ``redis`` module has been moved out of the standard library. It can
|
||||
now be installed via Nimble and is located here:
|
||||
https://github.com/nim-lang/redis
|
||||
- ``math.RunningStat`` and its associated procs have been moved from
|
||||
the ``math`` module to a new ``stats`` module.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Syntax changes
|
||||
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
The parser now considers leading whitespace in front of operators
|
||||
to determine if an operator is used in prefix or infix position.
|
||||
This means that finally ``echo $foo`` is parsed as people expect,
|
||||
which is as ``echo($foo)``. It used to be parsed as ``(echo) $ (foo)``.
|
||||
|
||||
``echo $ foo`` continues to be parsed as ``(echo) $ (foo)``.
|
||||
|
||||
This also means that ``-1`` is always parsed as prefix operator so
|
||||
code like ``0..kArraySize div 2 -1`` needs to be changed to
|
||||
``0..kArraySize div 2 - 1``.
|
||||
|
||||
This release also adds multi-line comments to Nim. The syntax for them is:
|
||||
``#[ comment here ]#``. For more details read the section of
|
||||
the `manual <docs/manual.html#lexical-analysis-multiline-comments>`_.
|
||||
|
||||
Iterator changes
|
||||
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
Implicit return type inference for iterators has been removed from the language. The following used to work:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: nim
|
||||
iterator it =
|
||||
yield 7
|
||||
|
||||
This was a strange special case and has been removed. Now you need to write it like so which is consistent with procs:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: nim
|
||||
iterator it: auto =
|
||||
yield 7
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Closure changes
|
||||
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
The semantics of closures changed: Capturing variables that are in loops do not produce a new environment. Nim closures behave like JavaScript closures now.
|
||||
|
||||
The following used to work as the environment creation used to be attached to the loop body:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: nim
|
||||
|
||||
proc outer =
|
||||
var s: seq[proc(): int {.closure.}] = @[]
|
||||
for i in 0 ..< 30:
|
||||
let ii = i
|
||||
s.add(proc(): int = return ii*ii)
|
||||
|
||||
This behaviour has changed in 0.13.0 and now needs to be written as:
|
||||
|
||||
.. code-block:: nim
|
||||
|
||||
proc outer =
|
||||
var s: seq[proc(): int {.closure.}] = @[]
|
||||
for i in 0 ..< 30:
|
||||
(proc () =
|
||||
let ii = i
|
||||
s.add(proc(): int = return ii*ii))()
|
||||
|
||||
The reason is that environment creations are now only performed once
|
||||
per proc call. This change is subtle and unfortunate, but:
|
||||
|
||||
1. Affects almost no code out there.
|
||||
2. Is easier to implement and we are at a point in Nim's development process where simple+stable wins over perfect-in-theory+unstable-in-practice.
|
||||
3. Implies programmers are more in control of where memory is allocated which is beneficial for a systems programming language.
|
||||
|
||||
Bugfixes
|
||||
--------
|
||||
|
||||
The list below has been generated based on the commits in Nim's git
|
||||
repository. As such it lists only the issues which have been closed
|
||||
via a commit, for a full list see
|
||||
`this link on Github <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+closed%3A%222015-10-27+..+2016-01-19%22+>`_.
|
||||
|
||||
- Fixed "Generic arguments cannot be used in templates (raising undeclared identifier)"
|
||||
(`#3498 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3498>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "multimethods: Error: internal error: cgmeth.genConv"
|
||||
(`#3550 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3550>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "nimscript - SIGSEGV in except block"
|
||||
(`#3546 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3546>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Bool literals in macros do not work."
|
||||
(`#3541 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3541>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Docs: nativesocket.html - 404"
|
||||
(`#3582 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3582>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed ""not nil" return types never trigger an error or warning"
|
||||
(`#2285 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/2285>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "No warning or error is raised even if not nil is specified "
|
||||
(`#3222 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3222>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Incorrect fsmonitor add() filter logic"
|
||||
(`#3611 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3611>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed ""nimble install nimsuggest" failed"
|
||||
(`#3622 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3622>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "compile time `excl ` cause SIGSEGV"
|
||||
(`#3639 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3639>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Unable to echo unsigned ints at compile-time"
|
||||
(`#2514 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/2514>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Nested closure iterator produces internal error"
|
||||
(`#1725 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/1725>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "C Error on walkDirRec closure"
|
||||
(`#3636 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3636>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Error in generated c code"
|
||||
(`#3201 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3201>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "C Compile-time error with generic proc type."
|
||||
(`#2659 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/2659>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "ICE dereferencing array pointer"
|
||||
(`#2240 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/2240>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Lambda lifting crash"
|
||||
(`#2007 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/2007>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Can't reference outer variables from a closure in an iterator"
|
||||
(`#2604 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/2604>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "M&S collector breaks with nested for loops."
|
||||
(`#603 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/603>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Regression: bad C codegen"
|
||||
(`#3723 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3723>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "JS backend - handle bool type in case statement"
|
||||
(`#3722 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3722>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "linenoise compilation with cpp"
|
||||
(`#3720 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3720>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "(???,???) duplicate case label"
|
||||
(`#3665 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3665>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "linenoise compilation with cpp"
|
||||
(`#3720 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3720>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Update list of backward incompatibilities for Nim 0.12.0 in the main site"
|
||||
(`#3689 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3689>`_)
|
||||
- Fixed "Can't compile nimble with latest devel - codegen bug"
|
||||
(`#3730 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3730>`_)
|
||||
32
web/news/2016_01_27_nim_in_action_is_now_available.rst
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32
web/news/2016_01_27_nim_in_action_is_now_available.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
|
||||
Nim in Action is now available!
|
||||
===============================
|
||||
|
||||
.. container:: metadata
|
||||
|
||||
Posted by Dominik Picheta on 27/01/2016
|
||||
|
||||
.. raw::html
|
||||
|
||||
<a href="https://manning.com/books/nim-in-action?a_aid=niminaction&a_bid=78a27e81">
|
||||
<img src="../assets/niminaction/banner.jpg" alt="New in Manning Early Access Program: Nim in Action!" width="682"/>
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
|
||||
We are proud to announce that *Nim in Action*, a book about the Nim programming
|
||||
language, is now available!
|
||||
|
||||
The book is available at this URL:
|
||||
`https://www.manning.com/books/nim-in-action <https://manning.com/books/nim-in-action?a_aid=niminaction&a_bid=78a27e81>`_
|
||||
|
||||
The first three chapters are available for download
|
||||
as an eBook through Manning's Early Access program. You can download a free
|
||||
sample of the book containing the first chapter as well!
|
||||
|
||||
*Nim in Action* is currently being written and is expected to be completed by
|
||||
Summer 2016. If you purchase the eBook you will start receiving new chapters
|
||||
as they become available. You can also purchase the printed book together with
|
||||
the eBook for a slightly higher price.
|
||||
|
||||
If you do read the book, even if it's just the first chapter, then please share
|
||||
any comments, suggestions and questions on the
|
||||
`Nim forum <http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/1978>`_ or in
|
||||
Manning's own `Author Online forum! <https://forums.manning.com/forums/nim-in-action>`_
|
||||
98
web/news/version_0_14_released.rst
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98
web/news/version_0_14_released.rst
Normal file
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
|
||||
2016-XX-XX Version 0.14.0 released
|
||||
==================================
|
||||
|
||||
Changes affecting backwards compatibility
|
||||
-----------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- ``--out`` and ``--nimcache`` command line arguments are now relative to
|
||||
current directory. Previously they were relative to project directory.
|
||||
- The json module now stores the name/value pairs in objects internally as a
|
||||
hash table of type ``fields*: Table[string, JsonNode]`` instead of a
|
||||
sequence. This means that order is no longer preserved. When using the
|
||||
``table.mpairs`` iterator only the returned values can be modified, no
|
||||
longer the keys.
|
||||
- The deprecated Nim shebang notation ``#!`` was removed from the language. Use ``#?`` instead.
|
||||
- The ``using`` statement now means something completely different. You can use the
|
||||
new experimental ``this`` pragma to achieve a similar effect to what the old ``using`` statement tried to achieve.
|
||||
- Typeless parameters have been removed from the language since it would
|
||||
clash with ``using``.
|
||||
- Procedures in ``mersenne.nim`` (Mersenne Twister implementation) no longer
|
||||
accept and produce ``int`` values which have platform-dependent size -
|
||||
they use ``uint32`` instead.
|
||||
- The ``strutils.unindent`` procedure has been rewritten. Its parameters now
|
||||
match the parameters of ``strutils.indent``. See issue [#4037](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/4037)
|
||||
for more details.
|
||||
- The ``matchers`` module has been deprecated. See issue [#2446](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/2446)
|
||||
for more details.
|
||||
- The ``json.[]`` no longer returns ``nil`` when a key is not found. Instead it
|
||||
raises a ``KeyError`` exception. You can compile with the ``-d:nimJsonGet``
|
||||
flag to get a list of usages of ``[]``, as well as to restore the operator's
|
||||
previous behaviour.
|
||||
- When using ``useMalloc``, an additional header containing the size of the
|
||||
allocation will be allocated, to support zeroing memory on realloc as expected
|
||||
by the language. With this change, ``alloc`` and ``dealloc`` are no longer
|
||||
aliases for ``malloc`` and ``free`` - use ``c_malloc`` and ``c_free`` if
|
||||
you need that.
|
||||
- The ``json.%`` operator is now overloaded for ``object``, ``ref object`` and
|
||||
``openarray[T]``.
|
||||
- The procs related to ``random`` number generation in ``math.nim`` have
|
||||
been moved to its own ``random`` module and been reimplemented in pure
|
||||
Nim.
|
||||
- The path handling changed. The project directory is not added to the
|
||||
search path automatically anymore. Add this line to your project's
|
||||
config to get back the old behaviour: ``--path:"$projectdir"``.
|
||||
- The ``round`` function in ``math.nim`` now returns a float and has been
|
||||
corrected such that the C implementation always rounds up from .5 rather
|
||||
than changing the operation for even and odd numbers.
|
||||
- The ``round`` function now accepts a ``places`` argument to round to a
|
||||
given number of places (e.g. round 4.35 to 4.4 if ``places`` is 1).
|
||||
- In ``strutils.nim``, ``formatSize`` now returns a number representing the
|
||||
size in conventional decimal format (e.g. 2.234GB meaning 2.234 GB rather
|
||||
than meaning 2.285 GB as in the previous implementation). By default it
|
||||
also uses IEC prefixes (KiB, MiB) etc and optionally uses colloquial names
|
||||
(kB, MB etc) and the (SI-preferred) space.
|
||||
- The ``==`` operator for ``cstring`` now implements a value comparision
|
||||
for the C backend (using ``strcmp``), not reference comparisons anymore.
|
||||
Convert the cstrings to pointers if you really want reference equality
|
||||
for speed.
|
||||
- HTTP headers are now stored in a ``HttpHeaders`` object instead of a
|
||||
``StringTableRef``. This object allows multiple values to be associated with
|
||||
a single key. A new ``httpcore`` module implements it and it is used by
|
||||
both ``asynchttpserver`` and ``httpclient``.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Library Additions
|
||||
-----------------
|
||||
|
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- The rlocks module has been added providing reentrant lock synchronization
|
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primitive.
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||||
- A generic "sink operator" written as ``&=`` has been added to the ``system`` and the ``net`` modules.
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||||
- Added ``strscans`` module that implements a ``scanf`` for easy input extraction.
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||||
- Added a version of ``parseutils.parseUntil`` that can deal with a string ``until`` token. The other
|
||||
versions are for ``char`` and ``set[char]``.
|
||||
- Added ``splitDecimal`` to ``math.nim`` to split a floating point value
|
||||
into an integer part and a floating part (in the range -1<x<1).
|
||||
- Added ``trimZeros`` to ```strutils.nim`` to trim trailing zeros in a
|
||||
floating point number.
|
||||
- Added ``formatEng`` to ``strutils.nim`` to format numbers using engineering
|
||||
notation.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Compiler Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Added a new ``--noCppExceptions`` switch that allows to use default exception
|
||||
handling (no ``throw`` or ``try``/``catch`` generated) when compiling to C++
|
||||
code.
|
||||
|
||||
Language Additions
|
||||
------------------
|
||||
|
||||
- Nim now supports a ``.this`` pragma for more notational convenience.
|
||||
- Nim now supports a different ``using`` statement for more convenience.
|
||||
- ``include`` statements are not restricted to top level statements anymore.
|
||||
|
||||
..
|
||||
- Nim now supports ``partial`` object declarations to mitigate the problems
|
||||
that arise when types are mutually dependent and yet should be kept in
|
||||
different modules.
|
||||
21
web/ticker.html
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21
web/ticker.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
|
||||
<a class="news" href="$1news/2016_01_27_nim_in_action_is_now_available.html">
|
||||
<h4>January 27, 2016</h4>
|
||||
<p>Nim in Action is now available!</p>
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<a class="news" href="$1news/2016_01_18_version_0_13_0_released.html">
|
||||
<h4>January 18, 2016</h4>
|
||||
<p>Nim version 0.13.0 has been released!</p>
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<a class="news" href="$1news/2016_01_18_andreas_rumpfs_talk_at_oscon_amsterdam.html">
|
||||
<h4>January 18, 2016</h4>
|
||||
<p>Andreas Rumpf's talk at OSCON Amsterdam</p>
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<a class="news" href="$1news/2015_10_27_version_0_12_0_released.html">
|
||||
<h4>October 27, 2015</h4>
|
||||
<p>Nim version 0.12.0 has been released!</p>
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<a href="$1news.html" class="blue">See All News...</a>
|
||||
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
|
||||
<a class="news" href="news.html#Z2016-01-27-nim-in-action-is-now-available">
|
||||
<h4>January 27, 2016</h4>
|
||||
<p>Nim in Action is now available!</p>
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<a class="news" href="news.html#Z2016-01-18-version-0-13-0-released">
|
||||
<h4>January 18, 2016</h4>
|
||||
<p>Nim version 0.13.0 has been released!</p>
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<a class="news" href="news.html#Z2016-01-18-andreas-rumpf-s-talk-at-oscon-amsterdam">
|
||||
<h4>January 18, 2016</h4>
|
||||
<p>Andreas Rumpf's talk at OSCON Amsterdam</p>
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<a class="news" href="news.html#Z2015-10-27-version-0-12-0-released">
|
||||
<h4>October 27, 2015</h4>
|
||||
<p>Nim version 0.12.0 has been released!</p>
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<a class="news" href="news.html#Z2015-10-16-first-nim-conference">
|
||||
<h4>October 16, 2015</h4>
|
||||
<p>First official Nim conference will be in Kyiv!</p>
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<a href="news.html" class="blue">See All News...</a>
|
||||
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ community: community
|
||||
news: news
|
||||
|
||||
[Ticker]
|
||||
file: ticker.txt
|
||||
file: ticker.html
|
||||
|
||||
[Documentation]
|
||||
doc: "endb;intern;apis;lib;manual.txt;tut1;tut2;nimc;overview;filters"
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
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