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Version 0.9.6 released
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.. container:: metadata
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Posted by Andreas Rumpf on 19/10/2014
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**Note: 0.9.6 is the last release of Nimrod. The language is being renamed to
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Nim. Nim slightly breaks compatibility.**
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This is a maintenance release. The upcoming 0.10.0 release has
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the new features and exciting developments.
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Changes affecting backwards compatibility
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- ``spawn`` now uses an elaborate self-adapting thread pool and as such
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has been moved into its own module. So to use it, you now have to import
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``threadpool``.
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- The symbol binding rules in generics changed: ``bar`` in ``foo.bar`` is
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now considered for implicit early binding.
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- ``c2nim`` moved into its own repository and is now a Babel package.
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- ``pas2nim`` moved into its own repository and is now a Babel package.
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- ``system.$`` for floating point types now produces a human friendly string
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representation.
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- ``uri.TUrl`` as well as the ``parseurl`` module are now deprecated in favour
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of the new ``TUri`` type in the ``uri`` module.
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- The ``destructor`` pragma has been deprecated. Use the ``override`` pragma
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instead. The destructor's name has to be ``destroy`` now.
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- ``lambda`` is not a keyword anymore.
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- **system.defined has been split into system.defined and system.declared**.
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You have to use ``--symbol`` to declare new conditional symbols that can be
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set via ``--define``.
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- ``--threadanalysis:on`` is now the default. To make your program compile
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you can disable it but this is only a temporary solution as this option
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will disappear soon!
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Compiler improvements
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---------------------
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- Multi method dispatching performance has been improved by a factor of 10x for
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pathological cases.
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Language Additions
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------------------
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- This version introduces the ``deprecated`` pragma statement that is used
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to handle the upcoming massive amount of symbol renames.
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- ``spawn`` can now wrap proc that has a return value. It then returns a data
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flow variable of the wrapped return type.
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Library Additions
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-----------------
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- Added module ``cpuinfo``.
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- Added module ``threadpool``.
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- ``sequtils.distnct`` has been renamed to ``sequtils.deduplicate``.
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- Added ``algorithm.reversed``
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- Added ``uri.combine`` and ``uri.parseUri``.
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- Some sockets procedures now support a ``SafeDisconn`` flag which causes
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them to handle disconnection errors and not raise them.
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