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@@ -1,3 +1,46 @@ + TXR 63 + 2011-03-30 + + + Features + + - Significant improvement in the performance of the garbage collector, + which can drastically cut the run-time of some programs. + - match-str and match-str-tree functions exposed. + - new @(rebind) directive provides for a one step dynamic shadowing + of a variable with a local variable, whose value can be derived from + the one being shadowed. + - filters now work on nested lists of strings, not just strings. + - floating point formatting now produces the same exponential notation + on different platforms, by post-filtering the sprintf output: + a leading + and leading zeros are removed: e+023 becomes e23. + - new functions: num-str, tan, asin, acos, =, + - min and max return the left operand rather than the right one, + when two operands are equal. + + + Bugs + + - search-str optional argument was not working when omitted. + - Fixed situations involving an incorrect behavior: partial horizontal + matches (not matching the full line) were succeeding. + - It was impossible to define a pattern function called @(text) + due to the use of the symbol text as an internal symbol, rather + than a symbol in the private system package. + - error checking code in funcall had an improperly terminated argument + list, causing an exception. + - @(output) blocks now flush their stream at the @(end), without + which output is not correctly interleaved between output produced + by external commands. + - fixed some misleading exception wordings in the numeric library. + - fixed sign semantics of floating-point mod to be like the integer mod. + - gcd function allows zeros. + - fixed broken exptmod: it was not normalizing bignum values that + fall into the fixnum range into fixnum objects, resulting in + undersized bignums being returned. + + + TXR 62 2011-03-23 |