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@@ -1,3 +1,60 @@ + TXR 119 + 2015-10-10 + + + Features + + - Interactive listener: + - New Ctrl-X Ctrl-R to insert entire previous line. + - Word/Atom from previous line works relative to recalled history line. + - New Ctrl-X Tab for substring-searching completion. + - Empty loops can be interrupted by signals: (for () () ()) is now + interruptible at the interactive prompt. + - New umethod and umeth function for indirecting on a method in a way + that is detached from an object instance. + - Boa construction of structures can have optional arguments now. + - copy and copy-str now copy lazy strings as lazy strings, rather + than forcing to regular string. + - New functions for sequence manipulation: take, take-while, take-until, + drop, drop-while, drop-until. + - New function ginterate for lazy generation which includes the terminating + item. + - New function expand-right for lazily generating a sequence in a roughly + opposite way to a reduce-right reduction. + - New function call-finalizers for explicitly invoking and clearing the + registered GC finalizers for an object. + - New functions clear-struct and reset-struct for clearing all slots + of a structure to nil, or reinitializing a struct to default values, + respective. + - New function replace-struct for changing and slot contents and type + of a struct to match an example object. + - Missing promisep function added to test whether an object is a promise + created by the delay macro. + - New defex macro, to define exception subtype relationships out of TXR Lisp. + (Previously available only in the TXR pattern language). + - Also useful surrounding functions: exception-subtype-p, + register-exception-subtype. + - New macros for working with streams in lexical scopes: + with-out-string-stream, with-out-strlist-stream with-in-string-stream, + with-in-string-byte-stream, with-stream. + - New with-objects macro for scoped finalization of objects, + somewhat like destruction in C++. + - Vim syntax highlighting file sets "lispwords" option for + more accurate indentation of TXR Lisp. + + Bugs + + - Fixed symbol-function throwing error on builtin macros. + - macro-time is now special-operator-p. + - Named block around bodies of methods and functions declared + in defstruct. + - slot-p renamed to slotp (old name supported in compatibility mode). + - Bug in structure initialization: boa arguments were applied first, + before other initialiations, rather than last. + - The conses function works on vectors and strings. + + + TXR 118 2015-10-01 |