Version 0.8.6 released
21 December 2009 Andreas Rumpf
The version jump from 0.8.2 to 0.8.6 acknowledges the fact that all development of the compiler is now done in Nimrod.
Bugfixes
- The pragmas
hint[X]:off
andwarning[X]:off
now work. - Method call syntax for iterators works again (
for x in lines.split()
). - Fixed a typo in
removeDir
for POSIX that lead to an infinite recursion. - The compiler now checks that module filenames are valid identifiers.
- Empty patterns for the
dynlib
pragma are now possible. os.parseCmdLine
returned wrong results for trailing whitespace.- Inconsequent tuple usage (using the same tuple with and without named fields) does not crash the code generator anymore.
- A better error message is provided when the loading of a proc within a dynamic lib fails.
Additions
- Added
system.contains
for open arrays. - The PEG module now supports the search loop operator
@
. - Grammar/parser:
SAD|IND
is allowed before any kind of closing bracket. This allows for more flexible source code formatting. - The compiler now uses a bind table for symbol lookup within a
bind
context. (See manual.html#templates for details.) discard """my long comment"""
is now optimized away.- New
--floatChecks: on|off
switches and pragmas for better debugging of floating point operations. (See manual.html#types-pre-defined-floating-point-types for details.) - The manual has been improved. (Many thanks to Philippe Lhoste!)
Changes affecting backwards compatibility
- The compiler does not skip the linking step anymore even if no file has changed.
os.splitFile(".xyz")
now returns("", ".xyz", "")
instead of("", "", ".xyz")
. So filenames starting with a dot are handled differently.strutils.split(s: string, seps: set[char])
never yields the empty string anymore. This behaviour is probably more appropriate for whitespace splitting.- The compiler now stops after the
--version
command line switch. - Removed support for enum inheritance in the parser; enum inheritance has never been documented anyway.
- The
msg
field ofsystem.E_base
has now the typestring
, instead ofcstring
. This improves memory safety.