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2014-XX-XX Version 0.9.4 released
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2014-XX-XX Version 0.9.4 released
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=================================
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The Nimrod development community is proud to announce the release of version
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0.9.4 of the Nimrod compiler and tools.
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This release includes about 1300 changes in total including various bug
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fixes, new languages features and standard library additions and improvements.
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This release brings with it support for user-defined type classes, a brand
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new VM for executing Nimrod code at compile-time and new symbol binding
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rules for clean templates.
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It also introduces support for the brand new
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`Babel package manager <https://github.com/nimrod-code/babel>`_ which
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has itself seen its first release recently. Many of the wrappers that were
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present in the standard library have been moved to separate repositories
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and should now be installed using Babel.
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Apart from that a new **experimental** Asynchronous IO API has been added via
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the ``asyncdispatch`` and ``asyncnet`` modules. The ``net`` and ``rawsockets``
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modules have also been added and they will likely replace the sockets
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module in the next release. The Asynchronous IO API has been designed to
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take advantage of Linux's epoll and Windows' IOCP APIs, support for BSD's
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kqueue has not been implemented yet but will be in the future.
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The Asynchronous IO API provides both
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a callback interface and an interface which allows you to write code as you
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would if you were writing synchronous code. The latter is done through
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the use of an ``await`` keyword which behaves similar to C#'s await. The
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following is a very simple chat server demonstrating Nimrod's new async
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capabilities.
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.. code-block::nimrod
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import asyncnet, asyncdispatch
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var clients: seq[PAsyncSocket] = @[]
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proc processClient(client: PAsyncSocket) {.async.} =
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while true:
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let line = await client.recvLine()
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for c in clients:
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await c.send(line & "\c\L")
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proc serve() {.async.} =
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var server = newAsyncSocket()
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server.bindAddr(TPort(12345))
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server.listen()
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while true:
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let client = await server.accept()
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clients.add client
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processClient(client)
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serve()
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runForever()
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Library Additions
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-----------------
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- Added ``macros.genSym`` builtin for AST generation.
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- Added ``macros.newLit`` procs for easier AST generation.
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- Added module ``logging``.
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- Added module ``asyncdispatch``.
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- Added module ``asyncnet``.
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- Added module ``net``.
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- Added module ``rawsockets``.
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- Added module ``selectors``.
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- Added module ``asynchttpserver``.
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- Added support for the new asynchronous IO in the ``httpclient`` module.
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Changes affecting backwards compatibility
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-----------------------------------------
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- The scoping rules for the ``if`` statement changed for better interaction
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with the new syntactic construct ``(;)``.
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- ``OSError`` family of procedures has been deprecated. Procedures with the same
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name but which take different parameters have been introduced. These procs now
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require an error code to be passed to them. This error code can be retrieved
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using the new ``OSLastError`` proc.
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- ``os.parentDir`` now returns "" if there is no parent dir.
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- In CGI scripts stacktraces are shown to the user only
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if ``cgi.setStackTraceStdout`` is used.
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- The symbol binding rules for clean templates changed: ``bind`` for any
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symbol that's not a parameter is now the default. ``mixin`` can be used
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to require instantiation scope for a symbol.
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- ``quoteIfContainsWhite`` now escapes argument in such way that it can be safely
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passed to shell, instead of just adding double quotes.
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- ``macros.dumpTree`` and ``macros.dumpLisp`` have been made ``immediate``,
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``dumpTreeImm`` and ``dumpLispImm`` are now deprecated.
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- The ``nil`` statement has been deprecated, use an empty ``discard`` instead.
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- ``sockets.select`` now prunes sockets that are **not** ready from the list
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of sockets given to it.
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- The ``noStackFrame`` pragma has been renamed to ``asmNoStackFrame`` to
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ensure you only use it when you know what you're doing.
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Bugfixes
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--------
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Compiler Additions
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------------------
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- The compiler can now warn about "uninitialized" variables. (There are no
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real uninitialized variables in Nimrod as they are initialized to binary
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zero). Activate via ``{.warning[Uninit]:on.}``.
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- The compiler now enforces the ``not nil`` constraint.
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- The compiler now supports a ``codegenDecl`` pragma for even more control
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over the generated code.
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- The compiler now supports a ``computedGoto`` pragma to support very fast
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dispatching for interpreters and the like.
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- The old evaluation engine has been replaced by a proper register based
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virtual machine. This fixes numerous bugs for ``nimrod i`` and for macro
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evaluation.
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- ``--gc:none`` produces warnings when code uses the GC.
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- A ``union`` pragma for better C interoperability is now supported.
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- A ``packed`` pragma to control the memory packing/alignment of fields in
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an object.
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- Arrays can be annotated to be ``unchecked`` for easier low level
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manipulations of memory.
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- Support for the new Babel package manager.
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Library Additions
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-----------------
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Language Additions
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------------------
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- Added ``macros.genSym`` builtin for AST generation.
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- Added ``macros.newLit`` procs for easier AST generation.
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- Arrays can now be declared with a single integer literal ``N`` instead of a
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range; the range is then ``0..N-1``.
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- Added ``requiresInit`` pragma to enforce explicit initialization.
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- Exported templates are allowed to access hidden fields.
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- The ``using statement`` enables you to more easily author domain-specific
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languages and libraries providing OOP-like syntactic sugar.
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- Added the possibility to override various dot operators in order to handle
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calls to missing procs and reads from undeclared fields at compile-time.
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- The overload resolution now supports ``static[T]`` params that must be
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evaluable at compile-time.
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- Support for user-defined type classes has been added.
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- The *command syntax* is supported in a lot more contexts.
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- Anonymous iterators are now supported and iterators can capture variables
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of an outer proc.
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- The experimental ``strongSpaces`` parsing mode has been implemented.
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Changes affecting backwards compatibility
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-----------------------------------------
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Tools improvements
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------------------
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- The scoping rules for the ``if`` statement changed for better interaction
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with the new syntactic construct ``(;)``.
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- ``OSError`` family of procedures has been deprecated. Procedures with the same
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name but which take different parameters have been introduced. These procs now
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require an error code to be passed to them. This error code can be retrieved
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using the new ``OSLastError`` proc.
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- ``os.parentDir`` now returns "" if there is no parent dir.
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- In CGI scripts stacktraces are shown to the user only
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if ``cgi.setStackTraceStdout`` is used.
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- The symbol binding rules for clean templates changed: ``bind`` for any
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symbol that's not a parameter is now the default. ``mixin`` can be used
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to require instantiation scope for a symbol.
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- ``quoteIfContainsWhite`` now escapes argument in such way that it can be safely
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passed to shell, instead of just adding double quotes.
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- ``macros.dumpTree`` and ``macros.dumpLisp`` have been made ``immediate``,
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``dumpTreeImm`` and ``dumpLispImm`` are now deprecated.
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- The ``nil`` statement has been deprecated, use an empty ``discard`` instead.
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- ``sockets.select`` now prunes sockets that are **not** ready from the list
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of sockets given to it.
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- The ``noStackFrame`` pragma has been renamed to ``asmNoStackFrame`` to
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ensure you only use it when you know what you're doing.
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Compiler Additions
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------------------
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- The compiler can now warn about "uninitialized" variables. (There are no
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real uninitialized variables in Nimrod as they are initialized to binary
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zero). Activate via ``{.warning[Uninit]:on.}``.
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- The compiler now enforces the ``not nil`` constraint.
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- The compiler now supports a ``codegenDecl`` pragma for even more control
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over the generated code.
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- The compiler now supports a ``computedGoto`` pragma to support very fast
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dispatching for interpreters and the like.
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- The old evaluation engine has been replaced by a proper register based
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virtual machine. This fixes numerous bugs for ``nimrod i`` and for macro
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evaluation.
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- ``--gc:none`` produces warnings when code uses the GC.
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- A ``union`` pragma for better C interoperability is now supported.
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- A ``packed`` pragma to control the memory packing/alignment of fields in
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an object.
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- Arrays can be annotated to be ``unchecked`` for easier low level
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manipulations of memory.
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Language Additions
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------------------
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- Arrays can now be declared with a single integer literal ``N`` instead of a
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range; the range is then ``0..N-1``.
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- Added ``requiresInit`` pragma to enforce explicit initialization.
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- Exported templates are allowed to access hidden fields.
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- The ``using statement`` enables you to more easily author domain-specific
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languages and libraries providing OOP-like syntactic sugar.
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- Added the possibility to override various dot operators in order to handle
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calls to missing procs and reads from undeclared fields at compile-time.
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- The overload resolution now supports ``static[T]`` params that must be
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evaluable at compile-time.
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- Support for user-defined type classes has been added.
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- The *command syntax* is supported in a lot more contexts.
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- Anonymous iterators are now supported and iterators can capture variables
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of an outer proc.
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- The experimental ``strongSpaces`` parsing mode has been implemented.
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Tools improvements
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------------------
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- c2nim can deal with a subset of C++. Use the ``--cpp`` command line option
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to activate.
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- c2nim can deal with a subset of C++. Use the ``--cpp`` command line option
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to activate.
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2014-02-11 Nimrod Featured in Dr. Dobb's Journal
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@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ srcdoc2: "pure/ftpclient;pure/memfiles;pure/subexes;pure/collections/critbits"
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srcdoc2: "pure/asyncio;pure/actors;core/locks;pure/oids;pure/endians;pure/uri"
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srcdoc2: "pure/nimprof;pure/unittest;packages/docutils/highlite"
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srcdoc2: "packages/docutils/rst;packages/docutils/rstast"
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srcdoc2: "packages/docutils/rstgen;pure/logging"
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srcdoc2: "packages/docutils/rstgen;pure/logging;pure/asyncdispatch;pure/asyncnet"
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srcdoc2: "pure/rawsockets;pure/asynchttpserver;pure/net"
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webdoc: "wrappers/libcurl;pure/md5;wrappers/mysql;wrappers/iup"
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webdoc: "wrappers/sqlite3;wrappers/postgres;wrappers/tinyc"
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