Here is list of changes:
0.9.3.2:
Fix documentation build problem when configured to use non default
encoding.
0.9.3.1:
Fix build problem on Windows/MinGW.
0.9.3:
* New Features
o Lazy sequences: An efficient and seamless support of mixing lazy
evaluation with ordinary list procedures. Forcing delayed
evaluation is implicit, so you can pass lazy list to normal list
procedures such as car or fold. See the manual entry for the
details and examples.
o gauche.generator: A general utilities for generators, a thunk that
generates a value every time it is called. Lazy sequences are built
on top of generators. See the manual entry for the details.
o Threads are now supported on Windows/MinGW build. It is directly
based on Win32 thread API instead of pthreads; but Scheme-level
semantics are almost the same. The cond-expand conditions are
slightly modified to accomodate both thread models--- see Threads
for the details.
o add-load-path macro now accepts an optional argument to make the
given path relative to the currently loaded file. This is useful to
distribute a script accompanied with library files; for example,
specify (add-load-path "." :relative) in the script makes the
library files searched from the same directory where the script
exists. Then users can just copy the directory to anywhere and run
the script.
o A chained-application macro $: Incorporated the feature which has
been experimented as gauche.experimental.app. This macro allows (f
a b (g c d (h i j))) to be written as ($ f a b $ g c d $ h i j).
Although it is slighly longer, it is sometimes work better with
indentation of deeply nested function calls. See the manual entry
for the full explanation.
o A new gosh option -m module allows the main procedure to be
searched in the specified module instead of the default user
module. This allows a Scheme file to work both as a library module
and an executable scripts (e.g. for running tests or demos); name
the test program main but not export it, and it won't affect
ordinary module users, but you can test the module by using -m
option.
* Incompatibile Changes
o util.queue: Thread-safe queue can now be created with zero
max-length, which is handy as a synchronization device. This is an
incompatible change---previously, specyfing zero to :max-length
means unlimited queue length. (Cf: Queue of zero length
http://blog.practical-scheme.net/gauche/20110107-zero-length-queue ).
o Fixed a regexp bug in treatment of BOL/EOL assertions (^, $) within
the assetion blocks such as (?=...). Regarding BOL/EOL assertions,
these assertion blocks are treated as if they're stand-alone. The
fixed behavior is now compatible with Perl and Oniguruma. The code
that counted on the previous (buggy) behavior may break by this
change.
o Removed gauche.auxsys module. This module contained several
less-used system procedures; now they are in the core. The module
was autoloaded, so not many code should be affected by this change.
Only the code that explicitly refer to this module needs to be
changed.
* Improvements
o Many frequently-used list procedures (all of util.list, and some of
srfi-1) are now included in the core. The module util.list is no
longer needed, although it is kept just for the backward
compatibility. From srfi-1, the following procedures are now in the
core: null-list?, cons*, last, member (extended one), take, drop,
take-right, drop-right, take!, drop-right!, delete, delete!,
delete-duplicates, delete-duplicates!, assoc (extended one),
alist-copy, alist-delete, alist-delete!, any, every, filter,
filter!, remove, remove!, filter-map, fold, fold-right, find,
find-tail, split-at, split-at!, iota.
o New macros and procedures: values->list, fold-left,
regexp-num-groups, regexp-named-groups.
o New procedure applicable? can be used to check object's
applicability finer than procedure?. Related, a special class
<bottom> is added, which behaves as a subtype of any classes.
o Build process is overhauled to allow out-of-source-tree build.
o Regular expression engine is slightly improved. For example, it now
calculates the set of characters that can be a beginning of a part
of regexp, and uses it to skip the input efficiently.
o thread-terminate! now attempts to terminate the target thread
gracefully, and only tries the forceful means when the gracefull
termination fails.
o open-input-file now accepts :encoding #t argument, which tells the
procedure to use a coding-aware port. That is, it can recognize
coding: ... specification in the beginning of the file. Useful to
process source files.
o map is now restart-safe, that is, saving continuations in middle of
mapping and restarting it doesn't affect previous results. This is
required in R6RS.
o Various small improvements in the compiler and VM stack layout.
o gauche.test: test-module now checks the number of arguments given
to the global procedures. This is useful to catch careless
mistakes. In rare cases that you do intend to pass number of
arguments incompatible to the normal usage of the procedures, list
such procedures in :bypass-arity-check keyword argument (It is
possible because of the dynamic nature of the language---methods of
a different signature may be added later, for example).
o gauche.test: test-end has a keyword argument to exit with non-zero
status if test failed. New function test-summary-check exits with
non-zero status when the test record file indicates there have been
failures. Both are useful to propagate test failure to upper levels
such as continuous integration server.
o srfi-42: Support :generator qualifier to allow using generator
procedures in a sense of gauche.generator.
o file.util: touch-file and touch-files takes various keyword
arguments similar to touch(1) command.
o rfc.http: A new parameter http-proxy allows to set the default http
proxy. The https connection now uses a library bundled to Gauche,
no longer requires external stunnel command.
o GC is bumped to bdwgc 7.2-alpha6.
* Bux fixes
o Fixed an incorrect rounding bug when inexact numbers were given to
div and mod.
o Fixed another division bug in /., when both dividend and divisor
are too big to be represented by floating-point numbers.
o In quasiquote expander, unquote and unquote-splicing are recognized
hygienically.
o force is now thread-safe.
o Fixed some MT-hazards in file loading/requiring. Thanks to Kirill
Zorin for tracking those hard-to-find bugs.
o Fixed a bug that made (regexp-compile '(alt)) Bus Error.
o Fixed another regexp bug that didn't handle case-folding match
beyond ASCII range. Patch from OOHASHI Daichi.
o gauche.parameter: Accessing parameters created in unrelated threads
used to raise an error. It was annoying, since such situation could
occur inadvertently when autoload is involved. Now the parameters
work regardless of where they are created.
o rfc.json: Fixed a bug that produced incorrect JSON.
o rfc.http: Fixed the behavior of redirection for 3xx responses. You
can also customize the behavior.
o gauche.threads: Fixed a bug in thread-sleep! when passed an exact
rational number.
o util.stream: stream-count didn't work.
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