Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.lightlink.com!news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: tm Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Seed7 Release 2011-09-04 Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 12:49:41 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 63 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <11-09-007@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com X-Trace: gal.iecc.com 1315361472 54615 64.57.183.58 (7 Sep 2011 02:11:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 02:11:12 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: available Posted-Date: 06 Sep 2011 22:11:12 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.compilers:257 Hello, I have released a new version of Seed7: seed7_05_20110904.tgz In the Seed7 programming language new statements and operators can be declared easily. Types are first class objects and therefore templates/generics need no special syntax. Object orientation is used when it brings advantages and not in places when other solutions are more obvious. Seed7 is covered by the GPL (and LGPL for the Seed7 runtime library). Changelog: - Declarations were moved from "seed7_05.s7i" to the new library "forloop.s7i". - For-loops, with traverse array elements and keys, were introduced in "seed7_05.s7i". - Testcases for bigInteger exponentiation, when it raises an exception, were added to "chkexc.sd7". - The recognition of constant expressions and their use to optimize the program in the compiler ("comp.sd7"), was improved. - Compiler options, to control the optimization of constant expressions, were introduced. Allowed options are -oc0 (no optimisation), -oc1 (default), -oc2 and -oc3 (best optimisation). - The functions 'bigSquare' and 'bigLog2BaseLShift' were added to "big_rtl.c" and "big_gmp.c" and used by the compiler. - The functions 'uBigDigitSquare', 'uBigKaratsubaSquare' and 'uBigSquareK' were added to "big_rtl.c". - The functions 'uBigDecr', 'uBigMultNegativeWithDigit', 'uBigMultPositiveWithNegatedDigit', 'bigAbs', 'bigGrow', 'bigMultSignedDigit', 'bigRShiftAssign' and 'bigShrink' in "big_rtl.c" were improved. - A free list memory management for 'biginttype' (bigInteger) values was introduced in "big_gmp.c". - All occurrances of the macro UTF32_STRINGS in *.c and *.h files were removed. Strings will always use UTF-32 encoded characters. Strings restricted to byte elements must use a different type. - The functions 'conWrite' (in "con_rtl.c") and 'conText' (in "con_win.c") were improved to allow writing Unicode characters to the console. - The random number generator (functions 'uint_rand' and 'intRand' in "int_rtl.c") was improved. - The functions 'stri_to_wstri' and 'stri_to_bstriw' were added to "striutl.c". - The experimental function 'inputReady' was added to "file.s7i", "external_file.s7i", "comp.sd7", "fil_unx.c", "fil_win.c" and "fil_drv.h". Because of buffering issues, 'inputReady' does currently not work correctly for pipes. - Support for 'SOC_INPUT_READY' was added to the compiler (comp.sd7). - The experimental function pipe2 was added to "shell.s7i". - Testcases for bigInteger multiplication and squaring were added to "chkbig.sd7". - The type 'flisttype' was introduced in "common.h" and used in "heaputl.h", "big_rtl.c" and "big_gmp.c". Greetings Thomas Mertes -- Seed7 Homepage: http://seed7.sourceforge.net Seed7 - The extensible programming language: User defined statements and operators, abstract data types, templates without special syntax, OO with interfaces and multiple dispatch, statically typed, interpreted or compiled, portable, runs under linux/unix/windows.