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Highlights of 0.8.37f |
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Non-Upwards Compatible Changes
| Resolution | Thanks to... | |
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| Change slot protocol | getValue/0, setValue/1 are deprecated and replaced with get/0, put/1. |
Kevin Reid |
| The control abstractions need simple names | For example, '__if' is renamed 'if'. Since that's a keyword, you must write: ::"if" |
Kevin Reid |
| Change term-tree coercion rules | Only tags can serve as functors. Strings in other positions convert to term-strings rather than tags. |
E. Dean Tribble |
| Rename Guard, ValueGuard | There is now only Guard, and it is as simple as the old ValueGuard. | E. Dean Tribble, |
| Adding Reactor to Lamport Slot without immediate send? | An EverReactor now also responds to getCurrent() with a pair of the current value and the current generation number. | Martin Scheffler, Kevin Reid |
| Guards in elib.slot now respond to call-pattern protocol. | As shown in the new guardMatching.updoc | Kevin Reid |
| Need sash powerbox example | Check out the new esrc/scripts/sash.e and the sash plugins in the sash/ subdirectory | Marc Stiegler, Matej Kosik |
| New guards cannot be DeepFrozen | Introduced the via pattern to separate general pattern transformer functions from guards per se. | Kevin Reid, |
| Need pragma.syntax/1 support | We have it and are using it | |
| Deprecate thunk and hard-when | All "thunk" should be replaced with "fn" The when-catch should be written with no explicit done function (the easy-when style). |
Marc Stiegler |
| parsing with no trailing newline has strange results | fixed | Kevin Reid |
| makeStoneCast exposes bad internal coercion | fixed | Kevin Reid |
| Loosen some Java types of Miranda methods | fixed | Kevin Reid |
| such-that pattern needs a more lenient expression production | fixed | |
| Can't build with Java1.5 | fixed | Steve Jenson |
| interp.setTopScope has no effect | fixed | Kevin Reid |
| rune -.<ext> doesn't work as promised | fixed | Kevin Reid |
| Quasi-term matching ignores different data | fixed | Kevin Reid |
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