Hi all,

TXR 100 [1] is out today.

Binaries are available from SourceForge, [2] as usual. 

I wanted 100 to be somewhat of a "big" release. Not everything that I
wanted made it in. 

There are 9 new features and 10 bugfixes. 

Among the highlights: 

 	* Complementing the existing load directive, there is an include
directive which loads code immediately an integrates it into the syntax
tree. This is useful for files that contain Lisp macros, because those
macros can then be used later in the same file where the @(include)
appears.
 	* Macros are provided to make it easier to use the power of pattern
functions out of Lisp code. These wrap the cumbersome match-fun
function.
 	* New line and chr directives make it possible to anchor the matching
to a line number or character position, or to capture the current line
number or character position into a variable. For instance @(line 3)
fails unless the current line is 3, and if foo has no binding, then
@(line foo) captures the current line into foo.

A feature which didn't make it, which will probably be in 101 instead,
is the ability load and run pure TXR Lisp files with no @ directive
syntax. I have some of the work under way in a private branch. Lisp
files will probably use a .txl suffix. I already have a working Vim
syntax highlighting file for this. :) 

Cheers ... 

 

Links:
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[1] http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/RELNOTES?id=txr-100
[2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/txr/files/txr-100/