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2009-10-21 Version 0.8.2 released
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Bugfixes
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- Passing ``--hint[X]:off`` or ``--warning[X]:off`` as command line arguments
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to the compiler now works.
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- Default parameters for templates now work.
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- Fixed security issue in ``system.copy``.
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- String case without an ``else`` part generated wrong code.
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- Various fixes for the ``osproc`` module; it now works on Windows.
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Additions
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- Implemented multi-methods.
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- The compiler now detects the number of available processors and
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executes the C compiler concurrently. This can be adjusted by the
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``--parallel_build: number_of_processors`` command line switch.
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- PEG-based pattern matching via the `pegs <pegs.html>`_ module.
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- Added ``system.definedInScope``.
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- Added ``system.accumulateResult``.
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- Added ``os.walkDirRec``.
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- Added ``osproc.countProcessors``.
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- Added ``osproc.execProcesses``.
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- The configuration system now supports ``$cc.options.linker``.
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- Merged ``expr`` and ``typeDesc`` in the grammar/parser: this will allow for
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anonymous procs without ``lambda``.
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- Many scripts have no need for a GC: The new ``--gc:none`` command line switch
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can be used to exclude the GC from the executable.
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Changes affecting backwards compatibility
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-----------------------------------------
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- Taking the address of an object discriminant is now invalid.
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- Passing a proc to a proc var is only allowed for procs marked with
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``procvar`` or a calling convention != ``nimcall``. For now this only causes
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a warning, but this will turn into an error soon.
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- ``system.&`` and ``system.add`` now receive ``openArray`` instead of ``seq``
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parameters.
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- Removed ``strutils.findSubStr`` and ``strutils.findChars``. They have been
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deprecated for 3 versions.
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- The unicode module uses a distinct type for ``TRune``.
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- Deprecated ``strutils.toString``: use ``$`` instead.
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- Deprecated ``os.splitPath``: use ``os.splitPath`` that returns a tuple
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instead.
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- Deprecated ``os.extractDir``: use ``splitFile(path).dir`` instead.
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- Deprecated ``os.splitFilename``: use ``splitFile`` instead.
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- Deprecated ``os.extractFileExt``: use ``splitFile`` instead.
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- Deprecated ``os.extractFileTrunk``: use ``splitFile`` instead.
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- Deprecated ``os.appendFileExt``: use ``os.addFileExt`` instead.
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- Deprecated ``os.executeShellCommand``: use ``os.execShellCmd`` instead.
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- Deprecated ``os.iterOverEnvironment``: use ``os.envPairs`` instead.
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- Deprecated ``parseopt.init``: use ``parseopt.initOptParser`` instead.
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- Deprecated ``parseopt.getRestOfCommandLine``: use ``parseopt.cmdLineRest``
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instead.
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- Deprecated ``os.pcDirectory``: use ``os.pcDir`` instead.
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- Deprecated ``os.pcLinkToDirectory``: use ``os.pcLinkToDir`` instead.
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- Deprecated ``osproc.executeProcess``: use ``osproc.execProcess`` instead.
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- Deprecated ``osproc.executeCommand``: use ``osproc.execCmd`` instead.
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2009-09-12 Version 0.8.0 released
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=================================
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Bugfixes
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--------
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- fixed a small bug that caused the compiler to not report unused
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overloaded symbols
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- fixed a small bug concerning symbol overloading
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- fixed a typo: it's "ambiguous", not "ambigious" ;-)
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- the compiler now detects recursive include files
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- ``system.card`` should work again
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- ``items`` for ``set[char]`` and ``array[char, T]`` should work now
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Additions
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---------
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- implemented generic types and two phase symbol lookup in generic routines
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- template parameters can now have real types
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- implemented generalized raw string literals: ``ident"abc"`` is a shortcut for
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``ident(r"abc")``
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- in overloading resolution iterators are separated from procs; iterators now
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can have the same name+signature as procs
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- symbol lookup in templates can be affected by the new ``bind`` keyword
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- the compiler now accepts a ``--no_main`` switch for better link
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interoperability with other compiled languages
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- implemented tuple unpacking in ``var`` sections
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- the code generator emits ``default: __assume(0);`` for Visual C++
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(for optimization)
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- the compiler now checks if a proc has side effects; procs that are declared
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to have no side effects are rejected if the compiler cannot verify this
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- the format operator ``strutils.%`` now supports ``$#`` for automatic argument
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counting
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- implemented ``strutils.join``
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Changes affecting backwards compatibility
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-----------------------------------------
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- two phase symbol lookup is performed in generic routines
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- ``bind`` is now a reserved word; ``exception`` is no reserved word anymore
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- abstract types have been renamed to distinct types; thus
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``distinct`` is now a reserved word; ``abstract`` is no reserved word anymore
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- ``system.openFile`` deprecated: use ``system.open`` instead
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- ``system.closeFile`` deprecated: use ``system.close`` instead
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- ``strutils.replaceStr`` deprecated: use ``strutils.replace`` instead
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- ``strutils.deleteStr`` deprecated: use ``strutils.delete`` instead
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- ``strutils.splitSeq`` deprecated: use ``strutils.split`` instead
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- ``strutils.splitLinesSeq`` deprecated: use ``strutils.splitLines`` instead
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- ``strutils.parseFloat`` does not accept an additional ``start`` parameter
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anymore
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Documentation
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-------------
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- the manual has been improved
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2009-06-08 Version 0.7.10 released
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==================================
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Nimrod version 0.7.10 has been released!
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Bugfixes
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--------
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- fixed bug #374441, #376113
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- the posix module works for Mac OS X again
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- returning an array should now work
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- fixed a serious bug in several parsers: the cached buf pointer
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must be updated after a reallocation of the buffer
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- fixed a CSS bug that kept Firefox from rendering parts of
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the generated documentation properly
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- fixed a bug concerning evaluation of command statements
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- overloading of ``inc``, ``dec``, ``pred``, ``succ`` should now work
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- ``removeDir`` now works as the documentation says: it even removes
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directories that are not empty
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Additions
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---------
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* zero argument templates/macros can now be invoked without ``()``,
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because this is not ambiguous
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* new modules in the library:
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- ``dynlib``: load symbols from a shared library
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- ``python``: wrapper for the Python programming language
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- ``tcl``: wrapper for the TCL programming language
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* added ``system.max``, ``system.min`` for open arrays
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* added ``system.each`` built-in
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* added ``os.getFilePermissions``, ``os.setFilePermissions``,
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``os.inclFilePermissions``, ``os.exclFilePermissions``
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* the ``dynlib`` import mechanism now supports a flexible versioning scheme:
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.. code-block:: nimrod
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proc Tcl_Eval(interp: pTcl_Interp, script: cstring): int {.cdecl,
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importc, dynlib: "libtcl(8.5|8.4|8.3|8.2|8.1).so.(1|0)".}
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* implemented ``abstract`` types
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Changes affecting backwards compatibility
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-----------------------------------------
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- the organization within the ``lib`` folder now reflects the documentation;
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as a result old configuration files need to be updated
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- ``abstract`` is now a reserved keyword
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- ``echo`` is now a built-in macro that accepts a variable numer of
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arguments of different types (and calls ``$`` for the arguments that need
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it); as a result it cannot be overloaded anymore
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- ``where`` is no keyword anymore
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- installation on UNIX produces a release version of the compiler
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2009-05-08 Version 0.7.8 released
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=================================
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Nimrod version 0.7.8 has been released!
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Apart from bugfixes and added libraries the biggest change is that Nimrod
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now has a new memory manager which:
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- interacts much better with the GC
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- uses less memory
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- is faster than the old memory manager (``dlmalloc``)
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- releases memory back to the operating system
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Bugfixes
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--------
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- generics are now processed earlier in the pipeline; thus
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generics can be used within macros
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- changed bootstrapping in ``koch.py`` and ``boot.nim`` to fix
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bug #369607
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- the compiler now checks that ``yield`` is used inside a loop
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- fixed a bug in the evaluation code for ``system.len``,
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``system.setlen`` and ``system.newSeq``
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- overflow checking for ``newSeq`` fixes a security issue
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Additions
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---------
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- new module: ``parsecsv`` for parsing CSV files
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- new module: ``xmlgen`` for generating XML or HTML
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- new module: ``osproc`` for OS process communication
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- added ``math.TRunningStat`` object and its methods
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- added ``strutils.validIdentifier``
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- the reStructuredText parser now supports the ``container`` directive that
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translates to the HTML ``div`` element
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- the ``cgi`` module registers a handler, so that stack traces contain the
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HTML ``<br />`` element making CGI applications easier to debug
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- added the ``cgi.decodeData`` iterator
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- ``copy`` and ``newString`` can now be evaluated at compile time. As a
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result more procedures from the ``strutils`` module can be evaluated at
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compile time.
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- ``macros.error`` now prints a stack trace
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- Nimrod now supports the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector:
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The ``--gc:boehm`` command line switch activates it. However, the native
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Nimrod collector is faster!
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Documentation
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-------------
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- Nimrod's abstract syntax trees are now documented in the
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`macros <macros.html>`_ module. Unfortunately the documentation is still
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incomplete.
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2009-04-22 Version 0.7.6 released
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Nimrod version 0.7.6 has been released!
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This is mostly a bugfix release. Some new features and libraries have
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also been implemented.
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Bugfixes
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- installation on Windows Vista may now work out of the box; please try!
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- fixed a bug that kept the "recursive modules" example from working
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- mixing named and unnamed parameters in a procedure call now works
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- octal numbers with the prefix ``0c`` are now properly supported
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- enumerations now may start with negative values
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- ``parseInt``, ``ParseBiggestInt`` now throw an exception if the
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string does not end after the parsed number
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- the compiler now handles top-level statements correctly
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- generated ``nimcache`` directory never ends in a slash
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- ``createDir`` now works for global directories under UNIX ("/somepath/here")
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- the compiler now executes the executable with a leading "./" under UNIX
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- the compiler now supports constant arrays of procedure pointers
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- ``elif`` in ``case`` statements now works
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- iterators using an open array parameter now work
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- fixed a bug where in some contexts ``$myEnum`` did not work
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Additions
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- implemented the passing of a code-block to the last parameter of a
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template/macro:
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.. code-block:: nimrod
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template withFile(f, filename, mode: expr,
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actions: stmt): stmt =
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block:
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var f: TFile
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if openFile(f, filename, mode):
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try:
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actions
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finally:
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closeFile(f)
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else:
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quit("cannot open: " & filename)
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withFile(txt, "ttempl3.txt", fmWrite):
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txt.writeln("line 1")
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txt.writeln("line 2")
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- new pragma ``deprecated`` can be used to mark deprecated identifiers
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- added ``system.pop`` built-in for sequences
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- added ``addf``, ``addSep`` and ``validEmailAddress`` to the
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``strutils`` module
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- nice ``=~`` template operator for the ``regexprs`` module
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- the scoping rules for ``for``, ``while``, ``if``, ``case`` changed
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in a subtle way to support the new ``=~`` template
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- added common regular expressions for regexprs
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- ``posix`` module now declares socket stuff
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- new module: ``cgi`` for creating CGI applications
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- new module: ``terminal`` for simple terminal output customization
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- new module: ``parsexml`` for HTML/XML parsing with some support for
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parsing *dirty* HTML
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- new module: ``web`` for retrieving web pages
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- new module: ``md5`` for computation of MD5 checksums
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- new wrappers: ``mysql``, ``sqlite3``, ``libcurl``
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Changes affecting backwards compatibility
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-----------------------------------------
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- ``strutils.findSubStr``, ``strutils.findChars`` deprecated:
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use ``strutils.find`` instead
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Documentation
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- The library is now divided into *pure libraries*, *impure libraries*
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and *wrappers*.
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2009-01-22 Forum added
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======================
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We now have a `forum <http://www.ethexor.com/heimdall>`_ where you can discuss
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2009-01-07 Version 0.7.4 released
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Nimrod version 0.7.4 has been released!
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Bugfixes
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- installation on Windows should work now if the directory contains spaces
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- the documentation generator now only renders documentation comments
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- ``\`` is allowed for operators as the manual says
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- in rare cases, the index check has been optimized away, even though
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it would have been necessary
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- several bugfixes for tuple types
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Additions
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- added an ``unicode`` module for UTF-8 handling
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- added ``hostOS`` and ``hostCPU`` magics to the ``system`` module
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- ``system.echo`` now accepts multiple arguments
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- added optimization: in some cases inlining of iterators now produces
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substantially better code
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- added whole program dead code elimination
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- the magic ``$`` operator now works for enumerations
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- in ``const`` sections advanced compile time evaluation is done:
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.. code-block:: nimrod
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proc fac(n: int): int =
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if n <= 1: return 1
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else: return n*(fac(n-1))
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const
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z = fac(3) # computes 6 at compile time
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Changes affecting backwards compatibility
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- renamed ``in_Operator`` to ``contains``: ``in`` is now a template that
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translates to ``contains``
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- changed ``strutils.quoteIfSpaceExists`` to ``strutils.quoteIfContainsWhite``
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- the parser is now much more picky about missings commas, etc. If this affects
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your code too much, try to run your code through the pretty printer.
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- the ``macros`` API is no longer part of the ``system`` module, to use this
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API you now have to import the ``macros`` module
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Documentation
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- added a tutorial
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2008-12-12 Version 0.7.2 released
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Nimrod version 0.7.2 has been released! This is a bugfix release. This most
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important fix is that Nimrod now works again on AMD64 (x86_64) processors. No
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new features have been implemented.
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2008-11-16 Version 0.7.0 released
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Nimrod version 0.7.0 has been released!
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Changes:
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* various bug fixes, too many to list them here
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* the installation for UNIX-based systems does not depend on Python any longer
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* the ``koch.py`` script now works with older Python versions (including 1.5.2)
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* changed integer operations and conversions rules
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* added ``GC_ref`` and ``GC_unref`` procs
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* sequences now need to be constructed with the ``@`` operator. This leads to
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less ambiguities.
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* the compiler now uses less memory and is much faster
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* the GC is now much faster
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* new bindings: zlib, SDL, Xlib, OpenGL, ODBC, Lua
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* the generated C code is much faster to optimize with GCC
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* new libraries: streams, zipfiles
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* the Nimrod compiler has been ported to FreeBSD: it should work on
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other BSD's too
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2008-08-22 Version 0.6.0 released
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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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A nice side-effect from this is that a source-based installation does not
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depend on FreePascal any longer.
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Changes:
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* various bug fixes, too many to list them here
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* cleaned up the type system: records are now superfluous and not
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supported anymore
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* improved the performance of the garbage collector
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* new modules in the library:
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- ``parseopt``: a simple to use command line parser
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- ``hashes``: efficient computation of hash values
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- ``strtabs``: efficient mapping from strings to strings
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- ``parsecfg``: an efficient configuration file parser
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* macros and compile-time evaluation implemented (however, still experimental)
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* generics implemented (however, still experimental)
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Araq