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Add 'r7rs-symbols' to the concept index. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: NEWS | 366 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- doc/ref/api-data.texi | 12 ++ 2 files changed, 377 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5913301..7f7752a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,374 @@ Guile NEWS --- history of user-visible changes. -Copyright (C) 1996-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1996-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send Guile bug reports to bug-gu...@gnu.org. +Changes in 2.0.10 (since 2.0.9): + +[XXX This is a work-in-progress!! Search for "XXX" for things to fix. +Reorganization would also be helpful.] + +* Notable changes + +** New GDB extension to support Guile + +[XXX elaborate. Maybe also mention the addition of 'gdbinit' to the +distribution.] + +** Improved integration between R6RS and native Guile exceptions + +R6RS exception handlers, established using 'with-exception-handler' or +'guard', are now able to catch native Guile exceptions, which are +automatically converted into appropriate R6RS condition objects. + +** Support for HTTP proxies + +Guile's built-in web client now honors the 'http_proxy' environment +variable, as well as the new 'current-http-proxy' parameter. See +"Web Client" in the manual for details. + +** Lexical syntax improvements + +*** Support |...| symbol notation. + +Guile's core reader and printer now support the R7RS |...| notation +for writing symbols with arbitrary characters, as a more portable and +attractive alternative to Guile's native #{...}# notation. To enable +this notation by default, put one or both of the following in your +~/.guile: + + (read-enable 'r7rs-symbols) + (print-enable 'r7rs-symbols) + +*** Support '#true' and '#false' notation for booleans. + +The booleans '#t' and '#f' may now be written as '#true' and '#false' +for improved readability, per R7RS. + +*** Recognize '#\escape' character name. + +The escape character '#\esc' may now be written as '#\escape', per R7RS. + +*** Accept "\|" in string literals. + +The pipe character may now be preceded by a backslash, per R7RS. + +** Custom binary input ports now support 'setvbuf'. + +[XXX elaborate?] + +** SRFI-4 predicates and length accessors no longer accept arrays. + +Given that the SRFI-4 accessors don't work for arrays, the fact that the +predicates and length accessors returned true for arrays was a bug. + +** GUILE_PROGS now supports specifying a minimum required version. + +The 'GUILE_PROGS' autoconf macro in guile.m4 now allows an optional +argument to specify a minimum required Guile version. By default, it +requires Guile >= 2.0. A micro version can also be specified, e.g.: +GUILE_PROGS([2.0.10]) + +** Error reporting improvements + +*** Improved run-time error reporting in (ice-9 match). + +If no pattern matches in a 'match' form, the datum that failed to match +is printed along with the location of the failed 'match' invocation. + +*** Print the faulty object upon invalid-keyword errors. +*** Improved error reporting of procedures defined by define-inlinable. +*** Improved error reporting for misplaced ellipses in macro definitions. +*** Improved error checking in 'define-public' and 'module-add!'. +*** Improved error when 'include' form with relative path is not in a file. + +** Speed improvements + +*** 'scm_c_read' on ISO-8859-1 (e.g. binary) unbuffered ports is faster. +*** New inline asm for VM fixnum multiply, for faster overflow checking. +*** New inline asm for VM fixnum operations on ARM and 32-bit x86. +*** 'positive?' and 'negative?' are now compiled to VM primitives. +*** Numerical comparisons with more than 2 arguments are compiled to VM code. +*** Several R6RS bitwise operators have been optimized. + +** Miscellaneous changes [XXX not sure where these belong, if anywhere] + +*** Web: 'content-disposition' headers are now supported. +*** Web: 'uri-encode' hexadecimal percent-encoding is now uppercase. +*** Size argument to 'make-doubly-weak-hash-table' is now optional. +*** Timeout for 'unlock-mutex' and SRFI-18 'mutex-unlock!' may now be #f. + +** Gnulib update + +Guile's copy of Gnulib was updated to v0.1-92-g546ff82. The following +modules were imported from Gnulib: copysign, fsync, isfinite, link, +lstat, mkdir, mkstemp, readlink, rename, rmdir, and unistd. + +* Manual updates + +** Improve docs for 'eval-when'. + +Each 'eval-when' condition is now explained in detail, including +'expand' which was previously undocumented. (expand load eval) is now +the recommended set of conditions, instead of (compile load eval). +See "Eval When" in the manual, for details. + +** Update the section on SMOBs and memory management. + +[XXX elaborate, and cite manual] + +** Fixes + +[XXX Do these belong here or in the bug fixes section?] + +*** GOOPS: #:dsupers is the init keyword for the dsupers slot. +*** 'unfold-right' takes a tail, not a tail generator. +*** Clarify that 'append!' and 'reverse!' might not mutate. +*** Fix doc that incorrectly claimed (integer? +inf.0) => #t. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/16356) +*** Document that we support SRFI-62 (S-expression comments). +*** Document that we support SRFI-87 (=> in case clauses). +*** Document 'equal?' in the list of R6RS incompatibilities. +*** Remove outdated documentation of LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH. +*** Fix 'weak-vector?' doc: Weak hash tables are not weak vectors. +*** [XXX too minor?] Fix 'my-or' examples to use let-bound variable. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/14203) +*** [XXX too minor?] Fix nested block comment example. + +* New deprecations + +** General 'uniform-vector' interface + +This interface lacked both generality and specificity. The general +replacements are 'array-length', 'array-ref', and friends on the scheme +side, and the array handle interface on the C side. On the specific +side of things, there are the specific bytevector, SRFI-4, and bitvector +interfaces. + +** Use of the vector interface on arrays +** 'vector-length', 'vector-ref', and 'vector-set!' on weak vectors +** 'vector-length', 'vector-ref', and 'vector-set!' as primitive-generics + +Making the vector interface operate only on a single representation will +allow future versions of Guile to compile loops involving vectors to +more efficient native code. + +** 'htons', 'htonl', 'ntohs', 'ntohl' + +[XXX add justification]. Please use binary I/O with bytevectors, +together with the procedures described in "Interpreting Bytevector +Contents as Integers" in the manual. + +** 'gc-live-object-stats' + +It hasn't worked in the whole 2.0 series. There is no replacement, +unfortunately. + +** 'scm_c_program_source' + +[XXX add justification]. Please use 'scm_program_source' instead. + +* New interfaces + +[XXX Should some of these be moved to the "Notable Changes" section?] + +** Cooperative REPL servers + +This new facility supports REPLs that run at specified times within an +existing thread, for example in programs utilizing an event loop or in +single-threaded programs. This allows for safe access and mutation of +a program's data structures from the REPL without concern for thread +synchronization. See "Cooperative REPL Servers" in the manual for +details. + +** SRFI-43 (Vector Library) + +Guile now includes SRFI-43, a comprehensive library of vector operations +analogous to the SRFI-1 list library. See "SRFI-43" in the manual for +details. + +** SRFI-64 (A Scheme API for test suites) + +Guile now includes SRFI-64, a flexible framework for creating test +suites. The reference implementation of SRFI-64 has also been updated +to fully support earlier versions of Guile. + +** SRFI-111 (Boxes) + +See "SRFI-111" in the manual. + +** 'define-values' + +See "Binding multiple return values" in the manual. + +** Custom ellipsis identifiers using 'with-ellipsis' or SRFI-46. + +Guile now allows macro definitions to use identifiers other than '...' +as the ellipsis. This is convenient when writing macros that generate +macro definitions. The desired ellipsis identifier can given as the +first operand to 'syntax-rules', as specified SRFI-46 and R7RS, or by +using the new 'with-ellipsis' special form when writing procedural +macros. With this addition, Guile now fully supports SRFI-46. + +See "Specifying a Custom Ellipsis Identifier" and "Custom Ellipsis +Identifiers for syntax-case Macros" in the manual for details. + +** R7RS 'syntax-error' + +Guile now supports 'syntax-error', as specified by R7RS, allowing for +improved compile-time error reporting from 'syntax-rules' macros. See +"Reporting Syntax Errors in Macros" in the manual for details. + +** New procedures to convert association lists into hash tables + +Guile now includes the convenience procedures 'alist->hash-table', +'alist->hashq-table', 'alist->hashv-table', and 'alist->hashx-table'. +See "Hash Table Reference" in the manual. + +** New predicates: 'exact-integer?' and 'scm_is_exact_integer' + +See "Integers" in the manual. + +** 'weak-vector-length', 'weak-vector-ref', and 'weak-vector-set!' + +These should now be used to access weak vectors, instead of +'vector-length', 'vector-ref', and 'vector-set!'. + +* Build fixes + +** Fix build with clang 3.4. + +** MinGW build fixes +*** Do not add $(EXEEXT) to guild or guile-tools. +*** tests: Use double quotes around shell arguments, for Windows. +*** tests: Don't rely on $TMPDIR and /tmp on Windows. +*** tests: Skip FFI tests that use `qsort' when it's not accessible. +*** tests: Remove symlink only when it exists. +*** tests: Don't rely on `scm_call_2' being visible. + +** Fix computation of LIBLOBJS so dependencies work properly. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/14193) + +** Link 'test-unwind.c' against libgnu.la. + [XXX rewrite title; not sure where this belongs] + +* Bug fixes + +** Web: Fix web client with methods other than GET. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/15908) +** Web: Add Content-Length header for empty bodies. +** Web: Accept "UTC" as the zone offset in date headers. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/14128) +** Web: Don't throw if a response is longer than its Content-Length says. +** Web: Write out HTTP Basic auth headers correctly. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/14370) +** Web: Always print a path component in 'write-request-line'. +** Fix 'define-public' from (ice-9 curried-definitions). +** psyntax: toplevel variable definitions discard previous syntactic binding. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/11988) +** Fix thread-unsafe lazy initializations. +** Make (ice-9 popen) thread-safe. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/15683) +** Make guardians thread-safe. +** Make regexp_exec thread-safe. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/14404) +** vm: Gracefully handle stack overflows. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/15065) +** Fix 'rationalize'. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/14905) +** Fix inline asm for VM fixnum operations on x32. +** Fix 'SCM_SYSCALL' to really swallow EINTR. +** Hide EINTR returns from 'accept'. +** SRFI-19: Update the table of leap seconds. +** Add missing files to the test-suite Makefile. +** Make sure 'ftw' allows directory traversal when running as root. +** Fix 'hash-for-each' for weak hash tables. +** SRFI-18: Export 'current-thread'. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/16890) +** Fix inlining of tail list to apply. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/15533) +** Fix bug in remqueue in threads.c when removing last element. +** Fix build when '>>' on negative integers is not arithmetic. +** Fix 'bitwise-bit-count' for negative arguments. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/14864) +** Fix VM 'ash' for right shifts by large amounts. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/14864) +** Fix rounding in scm_i_divide2double for negative arguments. +** Avoid lossy conversion from inum to double in numerical comparisons. +** Fix numerical comparison of fractions to infinities. +** Allow fl+ and fl* to accept zero arguments. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/14869) +** flonum? returns false for complex number objects. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/14866) +** flfinite? applied to a NaN returns false. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/14868) +** Flonum operations always return flonums. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/14871) +** min and max: NaNs beat infinities, per R6RS errata. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/14865) +** Fix 'fxbit-count' for negative arguments. +** 'gcd' and 'lcm' support inexact integer arguments. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/14870) +** Fix R6RS 'fixnum-width'. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/14879) +** tests: Use shell constructs that /bin/sh on Solaris 10 can understand. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/14042) +** Fix display of symbols containing backslashes. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/15033) +** Fix truncated-print for uniform vectors. +** Define `AF_UNIX' only when Unix-domain sockets are supported. +** Decompiler: fix handling of empty 'case-lambda' expressions. +** Fix handling of signed zeroes and infinities in 'numerator' and 'denominator'. +** dereference-pointer: check for null pointer. +** Optimizer: Numerical comparisons are not negatable, for correct NaN handling. +** Compiler: Evaluate '-' and '/' in left-to-right order. + (for more robust floating-point arithmetic) +** snarf.h: Declare static const function name vars as SCM_UNUSED. +** chars.c: Remove duplicate 'const' specifiers. +** Modify SCM_UNPACK type check to avoid warnings in clang. +** Arrange so that 'file-encoding' does not truncate the encoding name. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/16463) +** Improve error checking in bytevector->uint-list and bytevector->sint-list. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/15100) +** Fix (ash -1 SCM_I_FIXNUM_BIT-1) to return a fixnum instead of a bignum. +** i18n: Fix null pointer dereference when locale info is missing. +** Fix 'string-copy!' to work properly with overlapping src/dest. +** Fix hashing of vectors to run in bounded time. +** 'port-position' works on CBIPs that do not support 'set-port-position!'. +** Custom binary input ports sanity-check the return value of 'read!'. +** bdw-gc.h: Check SCM_USE_PTHREAD_THREADS using #if not #ifdef. +** REPL Server: Don't establish a SIGINT handler. +** REPL Server: Redirect warnings to client socket. +** REPL Server: Improve robustness of 'stop-server-and-clients!'. +** Add srfi-16, srfi-30, srfi-46, srfi-62, srfi-87 to %cond-expand-features. +** Fix trap handlers to handle applicable structs. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/15691) +** Fix optional end argument in `uniform-vector-read!'. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/15370) +** Fix brainfuck->scheme compiler. + [XXX was this broken in 2.0.9?] + +** C standards conformance improvements + +[XXX Consider putting most of these in a different section, possibly +with a general overview of the improvements rather than individual +bullet items] + +*** Don't use the identifier 'noreturn'. + (http://bugs.gnu.org/15798) +*** Rewrite SCM_I_INUM to avoid unspecified behavior when not using GNU C. +*** Improve fallback implemention of SCM_SRS to avoid unspecified behavior. +*** SRFI-60: Reimplement 'rotate-bit-field' on inums to be more portable. +*** Improve compliance with C standards regarding signed integer shifts. +*** Avoid signed overflow in random.c. +*** VM: Avoid signed overflows in 'add1' and 'sub1'. +*** VM: Avoid overflow in ASM_ADD when the result is most-positive-fixnum. +*** read: Avoid signed integer overflow in 'read_decimal_integer'. + + + Changes in 2.0.9 (since 2.0.7): Note: 2.0.8 was a brown paper bag release that was never announced, but diff --git a/doc/ref/api-data.texi b/doc/ref/api-data.texi index 9fd353d..acdf9ca 100644 --- a/doc/ref/api-data.texi +++ b/doc/ref/api-data.texi @@ -5526,6 +5526,8 @@ approach to properties, see @ref{Object Properties}. @node Symbol Read Syntax @subsubsection Extended Read Syntax for Symbols +@cindex r7rs-symbols + The read syntax for a symbol is a sequence of letters, digits, and @dfn{extended alphabetic characters}, beginning with a character that cannot begin a number. In addition, the special cases of @code{+}, @@ -5586,6 +5588,16 @@ double quotes. |\| is a vertical bar| @end example +Note that there's also an @code{r7rs-symbols} print option +(@pxref{Scheme Write}). To enable the use of this notation, evaluate +one or both of the following expressions: + +@example +(read-enable 'r7rs-symbols) +(print-enable 'r7rs-symbols) +@end example + + @node Symbol Uninterned @subsubsection Uninterned Symbols hooks/post-receive -- GNU Guile
