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| 24 | <h2 style="text-align:center">Release notes for ABCL 0.15</h2> |
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| 25 | <p> |
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| 26 | <b style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 125%;">Major changes and new features</b> |
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| 27 | </p> |
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| 28 | <dl style="margin-left:3cm;width:20cm"> |
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| 29 | <dt>Fixed special bindings un-binding in compiled code for (local) |
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| 30 | transfer of control using GO/RETURN-FROM</dt> |
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| 31 | <dd>Special bindings now will get unbound in many more cases and much |
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| 32 | more efficiently upon local transfer of control. |
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| 33 | </dd> |
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| 34 | <dt>Reduced ANSI failures in both compiled and interpreted modes</dt> |
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| 35 | <dd>MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ wasn't working correctly on symbol macros. |
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| 36 | Multiple issues with DEFINE-SETF-EXPANDER, and others. See CHANGES. |
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| 37 | </dd> |
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| 38 | <dt>Multiple JSR-233 (Java scripting) support fixes</dt> |
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| 39 | <dd>See the logs for more: too much to summarize. |
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| 40 | </dd> |
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| 41 | <dt>Compiler new feature</dt> |
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| 42 | <dd>Support for COMPILE-ing functions with non-empty lexical environments - |
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| 43 | which themselves are not being compiled. |
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| 44 | </dd> |
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| 45 | <dt>Google App Engine</dt> |
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| 46 | <dd>Don't break when being run on Google App Engine because 'os.arch' |
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| 47 | isn't set. |
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| 48 | </dd> |
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| 49 | <dt>COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL</dt> |
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| 50 | <dd>CLtL2 primitive COMPILER-LET is now supported in the EXT package, |
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| 51 | so is MACROEXPAND-ALL. |
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| 52 | </dd> |
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| 53 | </dl> |
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| 54 | |
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| 55 | <h2 style="text-align:center">Release notes for ABCL 0.14</h2> |
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| 56 | <p> |
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| 57 | <b style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 125%;">Major changes and new features</b> |
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| 58 | </p> |
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| 59 | <dl style="margin-left:3cm;width:20cm"> |
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| 60 | <dt>Fixed special bindings un-binding in compiled code for |
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| 61 | MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND, LET, LET*, PROGV and function bodies</dt> |
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| 62 | </dt> |
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| 63 | <dd>Special bindings now will get unbound even in case of (non-Lisp) |
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| 64 | exceptions. |
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| 65 | </dd> |
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| 66 | <dt>Reduced ANSI failures in interpreted mode</dt> |
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| 67 | <dd>RESTART-CASE wrongly didn't use the macro expansion environment |
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| 68 | to expand subforms. |
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| 69 | </dd> |
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| 70 | <dt>Lisp build system changed for parity with the Ant based build</dt> |
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| 71 | <dd>The Lisp build was lagging behind on adjustments made to the Ant |
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| 72 | based build. abcl.jar generated from either should now be the same. |
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| 73 | </dd> |
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| 74 | <dt>Several fixes to numeric calculations</dt> |
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| 75 | <dd>EXPT fixed for (EXPT NUMBER BIGNUM) and (EXPT BIGNUM RATIO). |
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| 76 | Also, ACOS with a complex double-float argument. |
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| 77 | </dd> |
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| 78 | </dl> |
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| 79 | |
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| 80 | |
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| 81 | <h2 style="text-align:center">Release notes for ABCL 0.13</h2> |
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| 82 | |
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| 83 | <p> |
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| 84 | <b style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 125%;">Major changes and new features</b> |
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| 85 | |
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| 86 | </p> |
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| 87 | <dl style="margin-left:3cm;width:20cm"> |
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| 88 | <dt>JSR-223: Java Scripting Plugin |
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| 89 | </dt> |
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| 90 | <dd>ABCL supports - when built with the <code>javax.script</code> package |
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| 91 | in the CLASSPATH - the interfaces defined in <a href="http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/scripting/">JSR-223</a>. |
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| 92 | </dd> |
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| 93 | <dt>Support for inlining FLOAT results</dt> |
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| 94 | <dd>When given the right DECLARE forms, ABCL is now able to inline |
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| 95 | calculations and intermediate values relating to FLOAT types. Before, |
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| 96 | it used to box all FLOAT values and results, without inlining.</dd> |
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| 97 | <dt>Compiler cleanups</dt> |
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| 98 | <dd>Lots of code cleanup in the compiler, such as elimination of |
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| 99 | nearly-equivalent code blocks.</dd> |
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| 100 | <dt>TRACE-ing fixes</dt> |
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| 101 | <dd>TRACE should no longer blow up when tracing FORMAT or inside |
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| 102 | the compiler.</dd> |
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| 103 | <dt>Support for "partial" wildcards in CL:DIRECTORY</dt> |
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| 104 | <dd>Patterns such as #p"cl-*.lisp" are now supported.</dd> |
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| 105 | </dl> |
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| 106 | |
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| 107 | <h2 style="text-align:center">Release notes for ABCL 0.12 and older</h2> |
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| 108 | |
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| 109 | <p>These release notes have not been created before. If someone takes |
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| 110 | the effort to create them, they will be added for 0.11 and 0.12.</p> |
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