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- Mindy 1.2 Change Log
-
- The following are enhancements added since release 1.1:
-
- Mindy now runs on even more platforms. See ``INSTALL'' for a
- listing of known successful builds. Thanks are due to Roger
- Critchlow for doing the bulk of the portability enhancements.
-
- Mindy installation now only requires an ANSI C compiler, any ``make''
- utiltiy, and ``/bin/sh''. Previous versions of Mindy required GNU CC
- (gcc), GNU flex, GNU bison, and GNU make (gmake).
-
- Mindy now uses a ``configure'' script to handle configuration.
- See ``INSTALL'' for more details.
-
- Mindy now comes with several files that have been compiled for you
- (they compile into portable C). There is no need to re-compile these
- files, but if you should desire to do so you will need GNU flex, GNU
- bison, and Perl.
-
- Mindy now contains a new subdirectory ``compat'', which in
- combination with the configure script is used to smooth out the
- differences between the different kinds of Unix machines.
-
- There is now a Mindy test suite in the ``tests'' subdirectory. The
- tests cover the Dylan module of the Dylan library and the
- Regular-Expressions module of the String-Extensions library.
-
- ``mc'' has been renamed ``mindycomp''.
-
- main() now has a required parameter argv0 which contains the name
- of the file that was executed (similar to C's argv[0]). See
- mindy.doc for details.
-
- Added the Print library, which contains extendable code for
- printing arbitrary objects. If an object has a Dylan literal
- syntax, then it is printed with that syntax. All other objects are
- printed in an implementation-dependent manner. See
- $INSTALL/doc/print.{ps,txt} for more information.
-
- Added the Format library, which contains extendable code for
- concisely expressing formatted output. The format control strings
- supported by this library are upwardly compatibile with the error
- function's format strings. See $INSTALL/doc/format.{ps,txt} for
- more information.
-
- Moved all the Extensions module I/O routines to the Cheap-IO module
- of the Dylan library. Added fflush to the Cheap-IO module. See
- $INSTALL/doc/mindy.{ps,txt} for more information.
-
- The Streams library now exports stream locking functions. The
- generic functions used to extend the streams protocol to new
- streams have changed slightly. The Streams interface now returns
- no values for functions that are called purely for side-effects;
- these functions used to return a meaningless #f value. See
- $INSTALL/doc/streams.{ps,txt} for more information.
-
- Added the String-Extensions library, which contains code to deal
- with regular expressions, substring searches, and other string and
- character related issues. Moved the string searching functions
- from Collection-Extensions to the Substring-Search module of
- String-Extensions. Renamed the String-Search module of the
- Collection-Extensions library to Vector-Search. See
- collection-extensions.txt and string-extensions.doc for details.
-
- <so-list> and the Solist module of Collection-extensions have been
- renamed <self-organizing-list> and Self-organizing-list,
- respectively.
-
- There is a new abstract collection class called <dictionary>.
- <table> from the Dylan module and <self-organizing-list> from the
- Self-Organizing-List module of Collection-extensions are now
- subclasses of <dictionary>. Remove-key! is now a generic function
- on <dictionary>s. <Dictionary> is exported from the Extensions
- module; see mindy.doc for details.
-
- Mindy now gives warnings about undefined variables.
-
- Mindy now has infinite precision integer arithmetic. Added <fixed-integer>,
- <extended-integer>, $minimum-fixed-integer, and $maximum-fixed-integer
- to the Extensions module.
-
- Mindy now has Unicode support. <byte-character> is now exported
- from the Extensions module, and is a subclass of <character>
- (<character> is really a unicode character).
-
- When searching for a library, Foo, Mindy first looks for foo-lib.dbc
- in $MINDYPATH, and failing to find that file, searches for foo.dbc.
-
- Added key-exits?(collection, key) to the Extensions module. See
- mindy.doc for details.
-
- Created the Introspective module in the Dylan library. See
- mindy.doc for deatils.
-
- An error is now signalled if the parent of a subclass has not yet
- been initialized when the subclass is defined.
-
-
- The following are bug fixes since release 1.1:
-
- Can no longer add methods to things that aren't generic functions.
-
- Logbit now takes its arguments in the correct order.
-
- Logand, logxor, and logior are now binary operators.
-
- size: on a <table> now does the right thing.
-
- Fixed a pair of bugs in the garbage collection.
-
-
- The following are enhancements added since release 1.0:
-
- Mindy now compiles under SunOS, Ultrix, and Linux.
-
- Inherited and keyword class slot options are now supported.
-
- Added support for \a, \e, and \0 in string and character literals.
-
- Added some additional error checking.
-
- Added a "describe" debugger command. See debug.doc for details.
-
- The debugger "module" command now annotates the listing of modules with
- "i"s and "x"s to indicate modules that are imported, exported, or both.
-
-
- The following are bug fixes since release 1.0:
-
- Return type declarations such as "#rest foo :: <integer>" are interpreted
- correctly now.
-
- "Large functions" no longer trigger an internal error in the compiler.
-
- Literal list syntax inside 'if' bodies no longer cause the compiler to
- die.
-
- Fixed an off-by-one error that made it impossible to debug source files
- longer than 1000 lines.
-
- Fixed 'define class' to generate correct implicit generic function
- signatures for the slot getters and setters. Mindy used to define the
- generic function as returning one value, but now Mindy defines it to
- return "#rest results :: <object>". This new behavior corresponds to a
- proposal for how implicit generic function signatures should be generated
- in Dylan. The basic idea is that implicit generic function signatures
- should be as general as possible to allow methods added later by users
- the greatest chance of matching the generic function's signature.
-
- Slot-initialized? works now.
-
- Fixed a typo bug that caused a setter to be called instead of a getter
- for some slots of classes that had multiple direct superclasses.
-
- Mindy no longer gets a segmentation violation when it is invoked with a
- -f switch that is not followed by a filename.
-
- Error's format control strings were previously case-sensitive with
- respect to format directives. Now the directives are case-insensitive.
-
- The Dylan module of the Dylan library now exports the identifiers
- row-major-index, rank, and dimension.
-
- The arguments for adjust-stream-position on <fd-file-stream>s were
- backwards, and now they agree with the stream specification.
-
- The arguments for write and write-line were backwards in the
- documentation, and now the documentation agrees with the code.
-