diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 9aaffed..c7ee601 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ # and file LOCALIZATION for details # -VERSION = 10.7.5 -INT_VERSION = 10705 +VERSION = 10.7.6 +INT_VERSION = 10706 default: makefile_build make -f makefile_build diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5b1dc7e..99d95bc 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -9,18 +9,33 @@ newLISP mirror ## newLISP with Git(Hub) +1. What is newLISP and what can I do with it? + + newLISP is a LISP-like scripting language for doing things you typically do with scripting languages: programming for the internet, system administration, text processing, gluing other programs together, etc. newLISP is a scripting LISP for people who are fascinated by LISP's beauty and power of expression, but who need it stripped down to easy-to-learn essentials. + +2. What makes newLISP so special, why 'new'? + + LISP is an old language born, grown, and standardized in times very different from today, times when programming was for highly educated people who engineered programs. newLISP is LISP reborn as a scripting language: pragmatic and casual, simple to learn without requiring you to know advanced computer science concepts. Like any good scripting language, newLISP is quick to get into and gets the job done without fuss. + + newLISP has a very fast startup time, is small on resources like disk space and memory and has a deep, practical API with functions for networking, statistics, machine learning, regular expressions, multiprocessing and distributed computing built right into it, not added as a second thought in external modules. + + +See also [the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page](http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?FAQ). + +---- + + NOTE: This repository is *unofficial* mirror. -This is newLISP experimental repository introduced DVCS (Distributed Version Control System) by using Git. -All source files are fetch from [SourceForge](http://sourceforge.net/projects/newlisp/files/). -Mainly available to easy browsing source code, view history, create a patch, etc. +This is a newLISP experimental repository. +All source files are fetched from [SourceForge](http://sourceforge.net/projects/newlisp/files/). +Mainly available for easy browsing of the source code, to view development history, create a patch, etc. -The final goal is newLISP development introduces DVCS (Git, Mercurial, etc) in official. ### branch -- `master` : mirror from original newlisp sources -- `develop` : `master` files and `README.md`, `.travis.yml`, `appveyor.yml` (default branch) +- `master` : mirror of original newlisp sources +- `develop` : `master` files and `README.md`, `.travis.yml`, `appveyor.yml` plus miscellaneous patches (default branch) - `feature/xxx` : (reserved) ### features @@ -48,3 +63,141 @@ please contact Lutz Mueller (see README) or post to the Forum. newLISP and Nuevatec are trademarks of Lutz Mueller. All files are distribute by GPLv3. For more details, see [doc/COPYING](https://github.com/kosh04/newlisp/blob/master/doc/COPYING) and [doc/License.html](https://rawgit.com/kosh04/newlisp/master/doc/License.html). + + +------ +------ + +newLISP version 10.x.x for LINUX, FreeBSD, macOS Solaris and Windows +==================================================================== + + +INTRODUCTION +------------ + +newLISP(tm) is LISP like scripting language for general programming +artificial intelligence and statistics. + +For more details about newLISP see the Users Manual and Reference in the +distribution file: 'doc/newlisp_manual.html' + +Code contributions, bug fixes, reports and comments are welcome. New +versions are available at: + + http://newlisp.org + or + http://newlisp.org/downloads + or + http://sourceforge.net/projects/newlisp + +See the file doc/CHANGES in the source distribtion for changes over +previous versions or + + http://newlisp.org/downloads/newLISP_xx_Release_Notes.html + +New versions in development are available at: + + http://newlisp.org/downloads/development + +Please contact me via email at: lutz@nuevatec.com. + +Some of the information in this file is expanded in file newlisp-x.x.x/doc/INSTALL. + + +BUILD, CHECK and INSTALL +------------------------ + +Normally the correct makefile_xxxxx will be picked automatically just typing: + + make + +to discover the current platform and make for Linux, MacOSX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, +NetBSD, Solaris/SunOS and Win32 (MinGW on MSYS). Sometimes the makefile_xxxxx +must be specified explicitely, e.g. when compiling for the RaspberryPi runnning +a sub-flavor of Linux and cross-compiled on a desktop system: + + make -f makefile_raspberrypi + +Any other makefile_xxxxx can be picked the same way, but always read the +makefile_xxxxx first, sometimes it contains special instructions! + +To test the compiled newlisp executable do: + + make check + +or showing only success or failure: + + make testall + +From a user account if the sudo command and admin password is available: + + sudo make install + +If root permissions are not available: + + make install_home + +home_install does not install the newLISP-GS Java based IDE, but installs +the supportig documentation. + +see all flavors and platforms available for install: + + make help + +will list all available platforms and flavors, newLISP can also be made as +a shared, dhynamic library: newlisp.so, newlisp.dylib or newlisp.dll + +To discover the platform in an extra step do: + + ./configure + + make + +this discovers the platform and generates a makefile_build which +is used subsequently by make. As an alternative use: + + ./configure-alt + + make + +this does a more elaborate analysys of options supported on a specific +platform and custom makes a makefile_build. + +See the files doc/INSTALL, doc/LOCALIZATION and doc/FILES for more +detailed information. + + +MINIMUM INSTALL +--------------- + +Note that for a minumum install only the executable newlisp or newlisp.exe +in Win32 is necessary. + +On Mac OS X or other UNIX copy newlisp to /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin or ~/bin +and give it executable permissions. + + +LICENSE +------- + +newLISP and Nuevatec are trademarks of Lutz Mueller. Files in the newLISP +distribution are protected by the "GNU General Public License Version 3, June 2007". +For the full text of this license see the accompanying file COPYING in the doc +directory, or the appendix in the file newlisp_manual.html. Documentation files +are protected by the "GNU Free Doumentation License Version 1.2, November 2002". +A copy of this license is also included in the file COPYING. + +This and information about lcensing from other contributors to newLISP is +contained in the file COPYING in the source distribution. + + +MORE INFO AND CONTACT +--------------------- + +See in the doc/ directory of the source distribution + +lutz@nuevatec.com + + + + diff --git a/configure-alt b/configure-alt index 901e3bd..d3fbe91 100755 --- a/configure-alt +++ b/configure-alt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh PACKAGE=newlisp -VERSION=10.7.5 +VERSION=10.7.6 rm -f config.h makefile_build makefile_install diff --git a/doc/CHANGES.txt b/doc/CHANGES.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..77a93da --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/CHANGES.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7272 @@ +6.0.25 +'find', 'replace' and 'search' now have an option for case insensitive +search, updated source and manual + +6.0.26 - 6.0.27 - 11:34 AM 4/4/99 +'trace' got stuck in executeCommandline() in traceExit() because an empty + fgets() in LINUX still has a '\n' + +6.0.27 - 6.0.28 - 6:30 PM 4/6/99 +'import' now returns primitve address +'define' now also works like (define x y) ; as in SCHEME +'char' now defaults to 0 on offset and returns unsigned int +new 'mod' floating point modular function +new 'abs' floating point absolute value function +new 'trim' trims spaces or characters both sides + +6.0.28 - 6.0.29 +'filter' new primitive + +6.0.29 - 6.0.30 +'dump' now displays address of cell +'make-dir' mode parameter now optional defaults to 493 = drwxr-xr-x + +6.0.30 - 6.0.31 +fixed trim, which had all kinds of problems +new 'difference' returns set difference of two lists +new 'intersect' resturns set intersection of two lists +new 'unique' returns unique set from list (duplicates removed) +when comparing lambda expressions, now state lists also get compared + +6.0.31 - 6.0.33 +'match' now also works on list expressions, wildcard symbols +can occur on different nesting levels. + +6.0.33 - 6.0.34 Released on www.newlisp.org +in 'substring' the length parameter is now optional +math exception showed wrong error message +tty setup now only when tty detected else supress buffering +for usage with 'socker' + +6.0.33 - 6.0.35 4/20/2000 +inlined cleanupResults() in evaluateExpression() ca. 4% speedup ! +took out all #pragma statements +took out termio stuff, works better without +new functions read-file, write-file +new functions read-process, write-process +new function error-text + +6.035 - 6.0.36 4/21/2000 +'char' now also can take a number as an argument converting it to a +string of one character: +(char 65) => "A" +(char "A") => 65 +'integer' and 'float' now return 'nil' if the string passed does +not start with a number digit or +/- +strings can now encode characters in the form \nnn where nnn +is a 3 digit decimal (leading 0' if less 100) e.g.: +"\065\066\067" => "ABC" + +6.036 - 6.039 4/28/2000 +added 'chop', 'explode', 'get-float', 'starts-with', 'ends-with' +added 'random' 'normal' +renamed 'get-number' to 'get-integer' +added script for httpd webserver demon + +6.039 - 6.043 +'symbol' now takes optional context argument +'symbols' now gives error message if symbol args is not context +eliminated 'sourcePtr' which wasn't used anyway, introduced +'sourceLine' for keeping track of line-numbers in error messages +added 'encrypt' for one-time-pad encryption/decryption + +6.043 - 6.044 +speedup in deleteList() and copyList() + +6.044 - 6.045 +took out 'sourceLine', too much confusing situtations which are +unresolvable. 'eval-string' now does multiple expressions + +6.045 - 6.048 +put back pushResultFlag, 'eval' needed it. +fixed bug in 'substring' for trailing 0's, changed tokeString to +resemble split() and taking separators > 1 char. +This also changes pack/unpack in parsePackFormat() to take care of +more than one space between formats. +After reset and execution of 'error-event' errorReg now set to 0. + +6.048 - 6.049 +took out executeSymbolParams modifying executeParams for optional arg +'reset' now throws 'user reset - no error' - error, so it can be handled as +a non-error in user defined error handlers, also takes now optional +symbol for 'resetEvent to be exuted after errorEvent. + +6.049 - 6.051 +'reset' now takes optional third parameter for stacksize. So the +syntax for reset is nor (reset [resetEventSymbol] [stacksize]) + +6.051 - 6.052 +no length limitiation anymore for printing strings to the console +'replace-nth' new primitive + +6.052 - 6.054 5/19/2000 +'let' new primitive like in other Lisp but dynamically scoped +'seed' new primitive seeds random generator for rand, random, normal +now feature complete for 6.1 release + +6.054 - 6.055 5/20/2000 +fixed memory leek in varPrintf() +'integer' and 'float' now take optional thirsd parameter for default +return value if string cannot be parsed. + +6.055 - 6.056 +fixed bug in 'symbol' which would not overwrite symbols in MAIN for +symbols in other contexts so (symbol "set" 'MyContext) now works +creating a symbol 'set in MyContext. + +6.056 - 6.059 5/29/2000 +improved pretty printing for 'let', which takes now the same flag +as 'cond'. Improved httpd script, now sends http header for each +file. + +6.059 - 6.060 5/29/2000 +httpd did fail on POST on some browsers now 'upper-case' when matching +'content-length'. Alos fixed in manuual + +6.060 - 6.0.61 +changed 'parse' so it parses a max token length of 2048 (256 previous) +this was already changed erarlier on the Win32 versions. +The read-line limit of 16384 should be changed at some point to infinite +similar to the print buffer. At the moment cgi vi std/IO is limited by +read-line to forms no bigger than 16384. + +6.0.61 - 6.0.62 +varPrintf was still limited. MAX_PRINT_LEN changed to size. + +6.0.62 - 6.0.63 +'integer' now parses also hex strings eg: (integer "0xFF") => 255 +'write-line' now retuenw nil on file errors + +6.0.63 - 6.0.64 +5% speedup introducing cell type masks + +6.0.64 - 6.0.65 +1% speedup taking out symbol in evaluateExpression + +6.0.65 - 6.0.67 +new 'count' counts elements of one list in another list + +6.0.67 - 6.0.68 +fixed error in 'reverse' + +6.0.68 - 6.0.69 +'parse' now without size limitations in tokens when using breakstr argument. + +6.0.69 - 6.0.70 +'string' now without size limitations of printing in string + +6.0.69 - 6.0/71 +'read-line' now without size limitations + +6.0.71 - 6.0.72 +'for' fixed bug when from and to where equal would run forever + +6.0.72 - 6.0.73 +'putenv' didn't work, fixed + +6.0.73 - 6.0.75 +problem with ebaluateLambda when passing (set 'p ...) to (foo p) as an argument +for parameter p. + +6.0.75 - 6.0.76 +additional functions: prob-z prob-chi2 and crit-chi2. (for ...) no works with +floating point numbers. Additional module xml.lsp + +6.0.76 - 6.0.77 +additional function: join. Additional module mail.lsp +additional function: sequence + +6.0.77 - 6.0.79 +additional functions: xml-parse, xml-error +fixed buffer overflow bug in varPrintf to string device (function 'string) + +6.0.79 -> 6.1.0 +new function println +6.1.14 documentation + +6.1.0 -> 6.1.1 +new function fft and ifft +6.1.15 documentation + +6.1.1 -> 6.1.2 +the length parameter in 'sublist' is now optional (assumes all) + +6.1.2 -> 6.1.3 +fixed default for 'true' in 'case' + +6.1.3 -> 6.1.4 +new function 'swap' for swapping elements in a list + +6.1.4 -> 6.1.5 +new function 'read-url' for reading pages/files via http +revision of httpd script more RFC compliant + +6.1.5 -> 6.1.6 +'read-url' nl-web.c now handles proxy's if HTTP_PROXY is set to proxy URL +new functions 'collect'and 'select' for selecting multiple elements from a +list + +6.1.6 -> 6.1.7 Release +'rand' now takes an optional second parameter to return a list of random +numbers (similar to 'random' and 'normal') +many formatting changes in manual. + +================================================================================ +6.1.7exp -> experimental '-p port' mode + +6.1.7 -> 6.1.8 +fixed bug in error event handling when error==0 + +6.1.8 -> 6.1.9 +trace now is a source level debugger, similar in funcitonality to the Win32 +version, but for a character console. +linking now encrypted, new functions 'betai' and 'gammaln' + +6.1.9 -> 6.1.10 +fixed bug which could affect parsing \xxx in getToken() where isdigit(x) +'prob-chi2' now more precise using gammap(), +new functions 'crit-z', 'beta' and 'gammai' + +6.1.10 -> 6.1.11 +new 'debug-highlight' for setting pre and post string in debugger +highlighting. Eliminated example httpget because 'read-url' does +the same. + +6.1.12 -> 6.1.12 +'swap' now treats negative values as the last element, consistent +with other functions, 'read-url' fix in error message text +init.lsp, mysql.lsp etc have moved to /usr/local/newlisp + +6.1.12 -> 6.1.15 +'read-url' now handles also redirects + +6.1.15 -> 6.1.16 +fixed bug in trace mode, trace stopped at all args evals in function +calls. Still stops and shows result for each 'map', which is ok, but +must be documented. Improved subroutines for handling POP3 and SMTP mail. + +6.1.16 -> 6.1.17 +new matrix functions 'invert', 'multiply', 'transpose' + +6.1.17 -> 6.1.18 +fixed dimension problem in transpose + +6.1.18 - > 6.1.19 +fixed missing error text for 'singular matrix' in invert + +6.1.19 -> 6.1.20 +ifft didn't normalize right when N not a power of 2 +evaluateLambda() rewritten to store statics in a way that +anonymous lambda expressions with static data can be stored +this also gave a general speed up of about 5%. + +6.1.20p2 +(nth -1 lst) now returns the last element instead of nil. This +is consisten with other functions + +6.1.20p4 +eliminated optional parameters in reset, because never worked right. +instead the error-event can be used for code after reset and the stack +size can now be specified on the command line. + +6.1.20p5 +eliminated get-state and set-state as primitves, they are now written +in newLISP and part of the initialization file /usr/local/newlisp/init.lsp + +6.1.20p6 +new function 'regex for POSIX 1003.2 regular expressions (GNU library) +ifdef'ed readline, only works in CYGWIN, cannot figure unresolved 'tputs()' etc in +libreadline.so in LINUX, seems not to see libcurses? + +6.1.20p7 +cleanup makefile for different features NANOSLEEP, READLINE, REGEX +cleanup fft +took out replace-match, new function index + +6.1.20p8 +cleanup regex, additions changes in manual + +6.1.20 -> 6.3.pre1 +READLINE finally working on Mandrake missing link to 'libtermcap.so' +lots of manual changes + +6.3.pre2 +preparing to replace simple binary tree for symbols woth RB balanced tree + +6.3.pre4 +running RB balanced tree code + +6.3.pre5 +fixed bug in 'symbols for context and 'delete for context + +6.3.pre6 +changed httpd CHANGES +=============================================================================== +6.3 Release +time-of-day new function + +6.3.01 +a fix for 'regex' in the CYGWIN version sent in by Steve Adams + +6.3.02 +additional optional parameter in 'eval-string' +streamlining code in nl-web.c, reformatting manual so it is easier converted +to PDF + +6.3.04 +new -p commandline parameter for TCP/IP port mode of newLISP. +Fixed format for default data type (will treat as string), +also format will permit now unlimeted size of the formatted +output (was 2047 bytes). + +6.3.05 +cleanup -p with trace for rt/lf translation + +=============================================================================== +6.3.06 Release July 8th, 2001 +optional parameter 'nil in 'eval for silent evaluation evaulates without return +value and prompt on the console, needed for Tcl/Tk integration + +6.3.07 Release +a new function 'debug (shortcut fr using trace) and various bugfixes in the +trace/debug functions. '{' and '}' characters are allowed as string delimiters +but only on the outer level, they get replaced by the parser. This allows +writing 'nicer' source for HTML and TK stuff. + +6.3.08 +regex now also returns sub expressions. further changes in debugger to accomodate +remote TclTk controlled debugging: (q)uit now quits execution, (c)ontinue stops +debugging but continues execution. + +=============================================================================== +6.3.09 Release July 16th, 2001 +string now can take more than one parameters, like concat but works on different +data types + +6.3.10 +added symbol count to 'sys-info' +added ERR: string in error message when in trace for TclTk frontend + +6.3.11 +new function 'dotree' to iterate thrugh symbol trees, usefull for simulating +arrays and hashes + +=============================================================================== +6.3.12 Release July 30th, 2001 +new function 'catch' for catching errors when evaluating expressions +fixed bug in net-connect when trying to connect to dead port + +=============================================================================== +6.3.14 Release August 2nd, 2001 +changes in newlisp_manual.html and newlisp-tk.html +cleanup and improvment of qa file +fixed crash-bug in markReferences and saveSymbol when copying contexts +function 'args' now works also for lambda, no symbol param necessary anymore +=============================================================================== +6.3.15 Release September 3rd, 2001 +xml-parse now accepts empty atribute value strings e.g.: +net-lookup now works in both directions: ip->name and name->ip +=============================================================================== +6.3.16 Release September 6th, 2001 +float division by 0.0 now yields 'Inf', as specified by IEE 754. Before 6.3.16 +it would couse a Math exception. Now all compare operations with NaN return 'nil'. +new functions 'floor' and 'ceil' and 'NaN?'. + +Ctrl-D will now longer crash but exit newLISP + +More LSB compliance in install directories used: now /usr/share/newlisp +instead of old /usr/local/newlisp + +=============================================================================== +6.3.17 Release September 9th, 2001 +fixed a memory leak in 'regex'. The leak could not be fixed in the CYGWIN +version which uses regexp ! + + +6.3.18 +fixed rounding problem in 'sequence', Ctrl-D will not exit but only do newline +if at beginning of line, else it will behave as expected under readline, to exit +newLISP with one keystoke use Ctrl-C instead. +output cleanup in error-text and error-event +better standard behaviour of 'cond' when action clause is missing +new function 'series' for generating geometric sequences. +new function 'rotate' for rotating lists + +6.3.20 Release October 22nd, 2001 +bug fix in xml-parse when parsing closing tags without opening tags +bug fix memory leak in catch and eval-string uder error conditions +about 30% speedup removing copyCell/pushResult in: inc set define +manual changes and additions. +tookout net-cleanup in network examples + +6.3.21p1 +bug fix in 'char' when using with floats +'integer' now also takes floats converting them into integer +also now translates "055" to 45 taking it as an octal number, +which is consistend now with the parser. +'float' now also takes integeres converting into floats + +6.3.21p2 +eliminated symbol->type in SYMBOL typdef, which reduces symbol memory by from 36 to 32 byte +fixed a bug where sometimes newlisp wouldn't exit after tk-frontend exited + +=============================================================================== +6.3.21 Release November 13th, 2001 +MAX_ERROR_NUMBER was to high, parenthesis count wasn't reset when evalCatchFlag + +6.3.22 +fixed potential bug in join with memory intialization +fixed problem parsing URL when redirection in 'read-url' +'get-url/read-url' now also handles 205 and 307 return codes +'get-url/read-url' now always only returns header portion if "header" option is specified +new -d demon mode, like -p but newLISP stays in memory to accept a new connection +new function 'put-url' for HTTP PUT method +new function 'post-url' for HTTP POST method + +=============================================================================== +6.3.23 Release January 6th, 2002 +new function 'binomial' + +6.3.24 +'exit' now closes net work connection when running in '-d' demon mode. +new function 'now' returns detailed date/time info: (y m d h m s us dy dw) +new function 'date-value' converts date/time into seconds since 1970-1-1 +new financial functions 'pmt', 'nper', 'pv', 'fv', 'npv' +bug fix in 'map' which would crash when last arg was not a list (as it should be) +replaced 'MySQL:close' with 'MySQL:close-db' to avoid overwriting of close in MAIN in mysql.lsp + +=============================================================================== +6.4.00 Release March 20th, 2002 +inclusion of BWidget set in the Win32 tk v 0.80 distibution, many manual changes + +6.4.1 +main-args now returns path of program as first list member +get-url "debug" option now can be specified together with "header" option +post-url content-type now is optional and defaults to "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" +added closing channel in get-url +fixed bug in 'join', which could crash on an empty list +httpd, finger and gettime changes for new 'main-args' +balloon help in newlisp-tk v. 081 +new '(tk-args)' when running Tcl/Tk frontend returns newlisp-tk commandline args +several changes in stat.lsp/plot directing temporal files to /tmp +fixed potential crash bug in 'dotree' +Win32 installer now puts desktop icon + +=============================================================================== +6.4.2 Release April 22nd, 2002 +'format' now for multiple args + +6.4.3 development release +'parse' now correctly does handles trailing separator by returning an empty token "" + +6.4.4 +buffer limit in vsnprintf() was not handled correctly, putting a space limitation +on 'string' (16k), 'format' (2k) and 'C' functions depending on varPrintf(), +fixed potential buffer overflow in writeStreamStr(). +'tranpose' did not check for matrix type. +experimental function 'throw' + +6.4.5 Development release +starts-with, ends-with +now are working type polymorph on strings and lists +rotate now takes negative numbers for left rotation +rearranged lambda evaluation (eval args before saving environment), +which causes 6% speed improvements +'args' only available in define-macro (again as before 6.3.14) +changed 'if', 'unless', 'while', 'until' for less CPU stack requirements + +6.4.6 +'nth', 'first', 'last', 'rest' +now are working type polymorph on strings and lists +'cons' works now correctly on 1 arg (who cares? -> consistency proof) +potenial cell-memory leak on error in 'apply' + +6.4.7 Development release +improved syntax for statics environment list as assoc list: +(define (foo a b c ((x 1) (y 2) (z 3))) ....) +to retrieve statics environment just do: +(last (first foo) => ((x 1) (y 2) (z 3)) +also improves speed of ststic processing by about 10% + +=============================================================================== +6.4.8 Release May 16, 2002 +empty? now works on strings +fix for 'cons' when lambda expr is second argument +fix for (rest "") which now returns "" +fix for (first "") now returns nil +purelisp.lsp for prooving consistency +fix for link.lsp on CYGWIN + +6.4.9 Development release May 21st, 2002 +'nil' as a symbol was not always treated as nil value constant +(push exp lst) now works even if lst does not contain a list +in that case old contents of lst gets deleted and initialized +with () before pushing exp, this makes initialization of lists +to '() before pushing on it unnecessary. +'time' now works as a timer returning mseconds needed to evaluate +this is also mor compatible how other Lisp's define 'time' +an expression, for old funcitonality of 'time' use (apply date-value (now)) +'sort' now takes an optional parameter '< or '> for ascending/descending +also about 30% speedup, like in: (sort myList '>) + +6.4.10 Development release May 21st, 2002 +correct treatment of symbol 'nil in 'and' and 'or' +eliminated orSymbol reference in soirce code +speedup parsing source +dump with parameter now returns list (cellAdress, cellType, cellNext, cellAux, cellContents) +stepsize in 'for' 'sequence' always forced to positive + +6.4.11 +'push' in its new form did not respect 'nil and 'true +new error message when trying to set/define/push on 'nil, 'true or context +speedup in multiple compares in nl-math.c +speedup in upper-case, lower-case +speedup in get-char, get-string, get-integer and get-float + + +6.4.12 +boolean types and symbols are equal +another speed improvement in lambad and expression evaluation +over all speed improvement over 6.4.8 now about 5-10% depending +on expression mix. +local iterator symbols are now handled on environment stack for +better error recovery. +new chapter "Data structure objects in lists" in docs and +many little doc changes. + +=============================================================================== +6.5.0 Release May 28th, 2002 +no changes related to newlisp itself except for versioning +changes in httpd (see httpd file) +changes in newlisp-IDE for changes in httpd and changes for date display + +6.5.1 +compiles with -Wall -pedantic -Wno-uninitialized -O2 +-Wall -pedantic for better portability +-Wno-uninitialized to suppress 'fork' 'longjmp' warning in -O2 +-O2 does ~25% speed and size improvement! +'let' did not handle empty parameter lists and now double fast + +6.5.2 development release June 3rd +'concat' is deprecated 'append' doubles functionality of 'concat' +new individual makefiles for making newLISP on different platforms without +the need to tweak makefiles. + +6.5.4 +'find', 'replace' and file 'search' now can do Regular Expressions. +Regular Expressions are not dependend any more on the C-library +on the OS platform used, instead PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) +is used on all platforms and the source is contained in the distribution. +Additions to INSTALL file about PCRE and localization of newLISP. + +6.5.5 +fix for 'replace' in regex mode + +6.5.5 -> 6.5.7 +changes in win32.lsp and makefile_win32 +eliminated file: nl-importDM.c was already merged +new chapter 'Lambda expressions in newLISP' in newlisp_manual.html + +=============================================================================== +6.5.8 Released version (functionally equal to 6.5.7) June 13th 2002 +#ifdef NOIMPORT instead of MAC_OSC in evaluateExpression() +spelling stuff in newlisp_manual.html + +6.5.10 +- incorporated nl-web.c into native win32 version to make work get-url, post-url +and put-url. Server modes -p and -d now are working too in native win32 version. + +- newlisp-tk.tcl changed to work with win32 because read-line/write-line don't +work on sockets in win32. + +- writeStramChar() now works also on binary streams + +- newlisp-tk.tcl changed to work on remote connection over the internet. +Shows acceptable speed on dial-up (old newlisp-tk.conf should be deleted) + +- 'reload last' button in newlisp-tk GUI + +- dependency fix in makefile_win32 + + +6.5.11 +- moved to Borlanc C++ v5.5 compiler, gives faster and smaller executable than + Digital Mars compiler previously used. Now all functions of the Linux version + also work in the Win32 version. + +6.5.12 +- changes in newlisp-tk.tcl for faster performance on remote and working + reliable with win32 version. Old newlisp-tk.conf should be deleted. + Win-tk version can now be distributed without CYGWIN DLLs using the + Borland 'C' Win32 compile. + +6.5.13 +- fixed problem in 'net-receive', which was introduced in 6.5.10 + httpd now works fine with win32 compile (with change in line 147 of httpd) + +- send() in net-send and win32_fprintf() now performs check and resend + +6.5.14 +- reintroduced writeStreamChar in 'net-receive', writeStreamChar did not zero buffer +- debug was broken with TK because of missing redefine of fgets() in nl-debug.c + +6.5.15 +- net-close wasn't working in win32 version, which gave problems in cgi in httpd +- new newlisp-IDE-1.3.tgz with fixes for LF -> RET/LF translation which was happening + in win32 pipes + +6.5.16 +- doc changes +- took out again size-check and resend in netSend() and win32_fprintf() as it is + not relevant in blocking sockets +- mail.lsp was broken because of change how optional parameter in 'find' works +- 'read-process' and 'write-process' collapsed to 'exec' +- match for lists now behaves like match for string returning a list of matches + ie. (match '(I * you) '(I love you)) => (I (love) you) + this allows easier substituting of star/* patterns in pattern matches in chat + robots + +6.5.17 +- new option# parameter in 'xml-parse' + (a) option# 1 to surpress white-space TEXT fields (for data XMLs) + (b) option# 2 to surpress empty attribute tags (for tags which never have attributes) + (c) option# 4 to surpress comments + (d) option# 8 to tanslate tag names into symbols + +- new 'xml-type-tags' for definig alternative tags for "ELEMENT", "CDATA", "COMMENT" + and "ELEMENT". Instead symbol can be defined or nil can be specified to surpress + the type tag completely. + +- the newlisp-tk_win32 version now comes with the win32 native compile + +- fixed bug in 'string', which was not reentrant + +=============================================================================== +6.5.18 Release August 3, 2002 +- fixed stream problem in 'eval-string' in Win32 +- fixed openStrStream, didn't initialize stream->handle to 0 + +6.5.19 +- doc changes, renamed mail.lsp to pop3.lsp, sendmail.lsp to smtp.lsp +- memory initialization in p_format() + +6.5.20 +- fixed p_format again, vsnprintf() doesn't include null-char in return count + as advertised in GNU docs +- doc changes + +6.5.21 +- 'explode' now also works on binary contents +- 'file-info' modification and creation time where added +- can now specify \000 in string constants +- in imported function now up to 10 parameters (previous 8) +- odbc.lsp module for ODBC communications + +6.5.22 +- comparing symbols now includes the context name in their comparison +- 'name' new function to extract the name of a symbol as astring without the context +- milli second resolution in 'time-of-day', 'now' and 'time' in Win32 +- newlisp_manual.book for conversion html->pdf with HTMLDOC http://www.easysw.com + this makes a printable manual. Print double sided then cut 8.0 x 9 inch, which is + 2 from the bottom and 0.5 from the right side when printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper; + then spiral bind (thin round spirals, not the flat once). +- post-url was never working on win32 becuase of missing win32_fwrite + + +=============================================================================== +6.5.23 ----------- released September 17, 2002 +- httpd fix for empty query string +- newlisp-IDE-1.6.tgz now saves files up to 10k, changed POST encoding to multi part + +6.5.24 +- quote wil not evaluate it's argument anymore, but work like Scheme or Common Lisp +- in newlisp-tk the lisp file estension can now be configured in newlisp-tk.config +- in Win32 now line termination gets written as RT-LF, + change also in newlisp-tk.tcl when filling editbox +- net-read-line now protected from deletion in newlisp-tk browser +- prettyPrint will never put newline after quote +- fixed prettyPrint bug when printing empty prettyPrint constructs (while, dotimes etc) + +6.5.25 +- quote fixed again (quoted twice) + +6.5.26 +- doc fixes +- date crashed on values resulting in dates before 1970-Jan-1 00:00:00 + in the Win32 version. In Win32 now minimum value for date is 86400, + which is safely on or after 1970-Jan-1 00:00:00 for all time zones +- NaN can now be put into a variable for comparison +- division by zero now causes a math exception also in floats (previously + inf was returned in cygwin/Unix version and Win32 crashed) +- in mixed arithmetik using integer operators NaN is taken as 0 + +6.5.27 +- new function 'constant' to protect symbol contents from changing +- fixed bug in newlisp-tk.tcl which was introduced after 6.5.23 + which caused problems in Mouse.lsp (_result -> result in 'tk') +- 'div' with NaN value raised exception/crashed in Win32, now + returns NaN +- DOMAIN error messages in the Win32 versions are now silenced + +6.5.28 +- doc changes +- new function 'setq', both 'set' and 'setq' and now can take multiple args + note that old init.lsp should be updated because of macro for 'setq' +- new option number 16 in xml-parse for generating SXML output + +- 7.0.0 pre release +- bug fix for 'string', suppresses all pretty-print formatting +- better error reporting on pop3.lsp and smtp.lsp with debug-flag true +=============================================================================== +- 7.0.1 release October 24, 2002 + merged caveGuy's pop3.lsp mail-id improvements + +- 7.0.2 +- readLineStream was not initizlized during program startup and caused + 'current-line' to crash if not used after a 'read-line' +- direct execution mode with new command line option -e +- in SXML parsing attribute tags where left strings instead of symbols +- 'find' now also does regex when looking up a string in list of strings + +- 7.0.3 +- example in newLISP for put.cgi in newlisp_manual.html +- include cgi.lsp in distribution +- the header in the SMTP interface smtp.lsp was not finished with empty line +- 'save now can save multiple contexts and/or symbols at once +- 'open now has a "append" or "a" option + +=============================================================================== +- 7.0.4 release February 2, 2003 + replace now gives error instead of returning 'nil when second arg not + list or string + new primitive 'lookup' works like assoc with extracting parameter + fixed bug in pop3.lsp + moved to version 5.4 of Freewrap for making the newlisp-tk.exe, which + is now doubled in size because 5.4 doesn't compress anymore (see Freewrap + docs). + +- 7.0.5 + Manual improvements in for correct conversion with HTML2DOC + additional hour offset parameter in 'now' and 'date' + fixed bug in dotree which caused crashes on Windows + 'context', 'dotree' and 'symbols' now accept unquoted + symbol if the symbols is a context. + contexts can be deleted again when empty + The newlisp-tk Windows version is now wrapped with freewrap v.5.5 + and based on Tcl/Tk version 8.4.1 and BWidget v.1.6 + newlisp-tk.tcl has been changed for better usage of 'context' + +- 7.1.0-rc1 + PCRE Perl Compatible Regular Expression support updated to version 4.3 + in 'replace' now replacement pattern with back references and as + lisp expression. Sub expressions are stored in variable $1, $2 ... etc. + $0 contains the whole pattern found. These variables are also filled + in 'regex' 'find' (all functions doing regular expressions). + The new implementation of 'replace' is also faster (about 15%). + example: + (replace "%([0-9A-F][0-9A-F])" str (char (integer(append "0x" $1))) 1) + This will do URL translation i.e.: "xxx%41xxx%42" -> "xxxAxxxB". + +- 7.1.0-rc2 + 'parse' can take regular expressions in sepearator when additional + options parameter is defined (as in find, replace) + +=============================================================================== +- 7.1.0 Release August 28, 2003 + 'search' like 'find' and 'replace' also accepts regular expression + when extra options parameter is given. + [text] and [/text] can be used as string limiters for large text regions + i.e. for HTML in cgi pages written with newLISP. Text limited this way + stays completely unprocessed and contain any characters. + The function 'symbol' accepts unquoted symbol for context parameter + (like 'dotree', 'context', 'symbols') + PCRE Perl Compatible Regular Expression support updated to version 4.4 + extensive manual changes formatting and PDF release + +- 7.1.1 + surpression of some compiler warnings in Mac OSX compile + makefile for linux has strip turned on and readline support + was not the default + +- 7.1.2 + third parameter in 'symbol' for supression of symbol creation, if + not found; return 'nil instead. + HTML manual had formatting error, which caused all after 'regex' + to be in curier. + +=============================================================================== +- 7.1.3 release September 3, 2003 + [text]...[/text] caused problems in TCP/IP communications + +=============================================================================== +- 7.1.4 release September 6, 2003 + uninitialized memory in writeStreamStr() caused problems when + running newlisp-tk and transferring bigger string buffers. + win32_fprintf() did not work right for buffers > 2048, which + caused problems in browsing bigger buffers in newLISP-tk. + +- 7.1.6 + new function 'process' for launching independent child processes + (will not block), new function 'pipe' for use with child processes. + + 'if' now accepts multiple condition-exp pairs and then works like a + cond without parenthesis around condition-value. 'if' with + condition-exp-exp or condition-exp still works like before. + + new 'net-send-udp' and 'net-receive-udp' for UDP communications + without need of net-listen,net-accept and net-connect. + + On Mac OSX 'import' is now enabled using to addtional files + osx-dlfcn.n/h for compiling. This import is for '.dylib' + libaries. + 'append' now also can append binary strings (i.e. containing 0's) + 'joint' now also can joint binary strings (including the joint string) + + if the length of a sublist in slice is 0 then sice returns the empty + list '(), previously returned nil. This is more consistent with the + behavior of slice on strings and at the end of lists. + + 'write-buffer' now acepts both: a symbol or a string + + 'send' now accepts both: a symbol or a string + + 'symbol' pretended to create a symbol although context would not exist + + error messages now include the offending expression/parameter which + caused the error. + + +- 7.1.7 + speedup in UDP communications (no session registration) + memory leak fixed in 'net-receive-udp' + + 'first' of an empty string now returns an empty string, previously nil + + improved cgi.lsp + + 'reverse' now works on strings + +- 7.1.8 + 'throw' now is documented (actually happened in 7.1.7) + + 'collect' and 'select' now also work on strings + i.e: (collect "2001-09-20" 5 6 8 9 0 1 2 3) => "09202001" + + 'slice' couldn't slice lambda's + + memory leak in searchBufferRegex() affecting 'find' and 'replace' was fixed + +- 7.1.9 + 'set' with multiple args had a cell memory leak + + 'transpose' had a memory leak + +- 7.1.10 + logfile support for remote mode -p and -d with '-l logfilename' + + fixed bug in pretty print on command line + + fixed bug in 'save', which went into a loop when saving symbols containing + contexts + +- 7.1.12 + logfile with string -L options also logs remote command line input + + 'fft' and 'ifft' now can take plain numbers instead of complex numbers + or a mixture of both + + regular expression speedup 5 to 50% by chaching the search pattern + and avoiding recompile, speedup greatly depends on complexity of + pattern relatively to the length of the search string + + rearranged functions in source files to make newlisp.c more manageable + + eliminated various unecessary typedefs + + Sun SOLARIS is now supported (not much tested though) + + operating system number in last position of 'sys-info' + linux 1, bsd 2, osx 3, solaris 4, cygwin 5, win32 6 + + strings containig zeros are now displayed correctly i.e. + (pack "c c c" 0 1 2 3) => "\000\001\002\003" + +- 7.1.14 + redundancy in printString() eliminated + + memory leak in 'parse' with regex fixed + + the userdefined function for an error is now reported + + overall speedup since 7104 of about 5% + + commented out undocumented function 'symbol-dump' + +=============================================================================== +- 7.2.0 is 7.1.14 released October 2nd, 2003 + + +- 7.2.1 + moved check for symbol type of lambdaFunc to errorProc for efficiency + + cleanup of unecessary defines in newlisp.h + + defined 'vasprintf()' to take advantage of vasprintf() where available + + 'format' now checks for correct number of arguments and well formed + format string, it should not crash anymore on mismatch of number + and type of parameters + + newLISP-tk is now version 1.0 with changes for multiline 'tk' statements + (stements containing line-breaks), this allows sending bigger Tcl/Tk + code portions in one 'tk' statement + +- 7.2.2 + force creation of $0, $1 ... in MAIN even when used in different context + for the first time + + supress $0, $1 ... in newlisp-tk frontend in variable listbox + (the $ would confuse tk) + +- 7.2.3 + replace-assoc now also uses the system variable $0 for the old + list, which can be reused in the replacement expression, i.e: + + (set 'lst '((a 1)(b 2)(c 3))) + (replace-assoc 'b lst (list 'b (+ 1 (last $0)))) + lst => ((a 1)(b 3)(c 3)) + + replace-nth now also uses the system variable $0 for the old element, i.e: + + (set 'lst '(1 2 3 4)) + (replace-nth 1 lst (+ $0 1)) + lst => '(1 3 3 4) + + added new module 'ftp.lsp' for get/put ftp transfers + + updated module smtp.lsp and program spam-filter + + symbols set with 'constant' now also gets saved with 'constant' + + introduced getContext() for code savings + + added error message in 'import' for win32 + + eliminated win32.cmd + + many documentation changes/fixes, rewritten introduction + added chapter about deprecated functions + + changes in set/define functions for better protection and + error messages of protected symbols + + full stack trace on error messages + +- 7.2.4 + replace-assoc now returns the changed list instead of the old + association found (which is now in $0) + + replace-nth now return the changed list instead of the old + expression found (which is now in $0) + now checks also for missing last argument + + replace now returns changed list or string + for changed list count of replacements in $0 + count for string replacements is not available any more + (could be handled in replacement expression) + now checks also for missing last argument + + remove now returns the changed list + and the number of removed elements in $0 + +- 7.2.5 + chop now also works on lists + + coding improvements in slice/sublist() and substring() + + newlisp-tk 1.02 now on Linux tmp directory is in the home + directory of the user running newlisp-tk + + replace with expression in replacement would overflow CPU stack + after 2048 replacements, now no limit + + cgi.lsp v.1.2 now lives in a context CGI for better isolation + + httpd v.3.0 with bugfixes for big POST buffers + + new module infix.lsp for parsing infix expressions + + in newlisp-tk changed /tmp to tmp for Linux/UNIX + +- 7.2.6 + (new CTX 'CTX2) copies context CTX to CTX2, helps using + contexts a objects, which can be instantiated from a template + context + + 'define' 'constant' used in contexts will always force creation + of the symbol in that context, never overwrite definitions in + MAIN. This is changed behaviour also be reflected in the documentation. + The old way was leading to unexpected definitions in MAIN of symbols + although loaded from a context. 'set' still will first look for a + global in MAIN. + + fixed false error messaging on certain parenthesis errors + + fixed wrong error message when trying to define protected + symbol + + error message 'parameter out of range when calling 'gammai', + 'beta' or 'gammaln' with first parameter 0. + +- 7.2.7 + contexts now can be assigned to variables and referenced + during runtime, i.e. 'contextVar:varName' with late binding + of contextVar. New possibilities of OO programming and lexically + scoped programming, see new chapter in the users manual + about 'Programming with context objects'. + + stronger separation of contexts from context MAIN, only + primitive symbols, context symbols, true and nil are + inherited + + 'new' now returns the new context, formerly 'true' + + 'set', 'setq', 'set!', 'constant' now return the value of + the symbol set when the rvalue is missing i.e: + (constant 'foo) will make foo a constant and return it's + curent value + + protected all symbols in MAIN in newlisp-tk.tcl v 1.03 + against accidental overwrite + + cleaned up toal mess of tem pdir detection in unix mode + + cleaned up init.lsp + + 'nth' now can take multiple indices, i.e.: + (nth 1 2 0 '(1 (a b (c d)))) => c + good for working with matrices or sparse matrices + out of bounds indices return the last in dimension + + 'set-nth' like former 'replace-nth' but multidimensional + like 'nth' + (set-nth 1 2 0 '(1 (a b (c d))) 'x) => (1 (a b (x d))) + +- 7.2.8 + eliminated statics in lambda expression, not necessary + anymore as we have dynamic contexts, which also + create a lexically closure around vars + + fix in dolist, how cleanup is done + +=============================================================================== +- 7.3.0 Released version 2003/11/03 + (cpymen fromAddress toAdress nBytes), address may be integer + or string, only for internal use, not documented. Could be + used with 'dump' to hack lisp-cells and symbols-cells. + i.e. to unprotect a symbol : + (cpymem (pack "c c" 0 32) (last (dump 'sym)) 2) + + fixed error message reporting in 'set-nth' + +- 7.3.1 released Nov 11 2003 + 'import' was broken in Win32 native version when working + inside contexts (odbc.lsp and mysql.lsp) + + (pretty-print line-length indent-string) + experimental not documented yet, to change pretty printing + behaviour, without args returns current status => (64 " ") + 64 length 1 space for indenting + +- 7.3.2 + 'char', 'collect', 'lookup', 'nth', 'pop', 'push', 'select', 'set-nth' + and 'slice' now all accept negative offset which will count from the + end of a list i.e. (slice "newLISP" -4 2) => "LI" + + 'push' and 'pop' now can take multidimensional offsets like + 'nth' and 'set-nth' + + 'collect'/'select' now return the last element for offsets to big + (formerly nil) + + 'pretty-print' now tested and documented + + 1.e-1 or 123. , a decimal point without following digits is + no an accepted number format + + in newlisp-tk the windows position gets now saved when saving + Options/Settings + + fixed bug in 'let' when returning a local var + +- 7.3.3 + new 'push' changed 'nilCell' + +- 7.3.4 + newlisp_manual.html with Kazemori edits + + 'list' now accepts unlimited number of arguments + +- 7.3.5 + 'push' could not append to an empty list + + handling big buffers in newlisp-tk in evaluation + + common floating point exception handling on all + platforms (BorlandC and GCC) + + block mode for remote connection starting with [cmd] + on a line by itself and finishing with [/cmd] on + a line by itself + + sets locale environment on non-US versions of an OS + platform, this enables automatically correct character + handling (i.e. upper-case) on non-engish character sets + +- 7.3.7 + newlisp-tk.tcl now takes advantage of new block mode (multiple + lines in interactive mode). This ways one of the ports in + communication with newlisp could be eliminated and browser-editor + buffers of unlimited length can be evaluated, preferrably in + evaluation without printing (left of the two buttons) + + doc changes for 'silent' + +- 7.3.8 + 'let' now accepts also alternative syntax without the parenthesis + around var - exp pairs: (let (var1 exp1 var2 exp2 ...) body ) + + doc changes for 'let' and chapter 'Lambda expression' + doc change new function 'set-locale' + doc change new sub chapter 'Switching the locale' in chapter + 'Localization and customization' + doc change new file LOCALIZATION + + 'fn' may be used instaed of 'lambda' (save typing) + + 'set-locale' changes usage: (set-locale) => return current + setting, (set-locale "") => switches to local locale with + all option turned on. (set-locale str int) switches to locale + in str with category option int as speicied in "locale.h" of + platform/OS, look for defs of LC_ALL, LC_NUNMERIC etc.. + on startup newLISP tries to swithc to ISO "C" locale. + +- 7.3.9 + 'push' and 'pop' now can take the int-offsets in a list to + work together with new 'ref' which reports the position of an + expression in a nested list + + doc changes (sometimes only small changes) + 'push', 'pop', 'symbol?' new function 'ref' + 'save', 'set', 'Arrays and Hash Tables ...', 'close', + 'cons', 'context', 'delete', 'explode', 'fft', 'find', + 'format', 'intersect', 'lambda?', 'length', 'let' + 'make-dir', 'match', 'net-receive', 'net-select', + 'net-send', 'new' + + changed options flag will trigger recompile when caching regular + expression patterns + + 'select' evaluated args in offset list + + 'join' evaluated args in string list + + 'append'' evaluated the first string arg double + + all type predicates now given an error message if the + argument is missing, previously 'nil' ('true' on atom?) + + getting an int from a 'inf' floating point crashed on Borland Win32 + now returns 0 like on other platforms + +- 7.3.10 + 'remove' didn't check for list type in second arg and bombed + +- 7.3.11 + new compile for Win32 DLL with makefile_win32dll + see file win32dll.readme for unsolved issues + +- 7.3.12 + (replace expr aList) now works like 'remove', but for removing + strings the empty string "" must still be specified: + (replace str aString "") + 'remove' is deprecated and will not be available anymore in 8.0 + + new 'flat' to flatten lists complements multidimensional set + of list functions, example: + (set 'lst '(a (b (c d)))) + (map (fn (x) (ref x lst)) (flat lst)) => ((0) (1 0) (1 1 0) (1 1 1)) + + newlisp.dll now runs qa suite + +- 7.3.14 + DLL now suppresses pop up on FP domain error (thanks Steve) + DLL now also can use print statment, output will be in return + value. + + 'replace' did not work correctly when removing multiple expressions + at the beginning of a list + + doc changes 'replace', 'flat', chapter 'Deprecated functions' + chapter 'DLL module ...' + + error message for "string too long" now reports shorter string + +- 7.3.15 + better error reporting on some string getting functions when arg + is missing + + doc changes license change for documentation, misc. links + + replace could not handle empty search string + + Win32 DLL no contained in Win32 distribution + + fixed error in httpd + +- 7.3.16 + error messages in newlisp.dll where broken becuase of wrong makefile_win32dll + + newlisp-tk.html now reformatted to manual HTML for better maintenance/conversion + + slight optimixation in 'nth' and 'set-nth' + + fix for 'nth' on empty string + + better error messages on missing args in various functions + + link.lsp now also works on win32 DLLs but is not supported anymore + for CYGWIN, use a win32 compiled newlisp.exe and newlisp.dll instead, + both work fine under CYGWIN + + doc change for chapter 'Win32 DLL ...' + + fixed 'silent' mode for DLL + + 'float' conversion noe accepts leading . without zero like the + internal parser + +- 7.3.17 + doc changes as of Sam Cox's and Nigel's postings on + http://www.alh.net/newlisp/phpbb/ on 2003-12-07 + + new functions 'atan2' and 'irr' and documentation + + eliminated compiler warnings for Linux GCC 3.3.1 + +- 7.4.0rc1 + 'irr' now strips of digits less than precision 1e-5 + + 'set-nth' alsow works on strings (singular index) + + 'swap' now works on strings, also return value changed + from swapped pair to changes list/string + + 'pretty-print' had a cell leak + + in the installation for LINUX/BSD etc. the doc directory has been + moved from /usr/doc/newlisp to /usr/share/doc/newlisp + newlisp-tk.tcl 1.07 changed accordingly + + upgrade to PCRE 4.5 files + + 'integer' didn't truncate to -MAX_LONG + + 'integer' did not truncate to MAX_LONG when feeding big + floating point numbers, but crashed on Win32 + + on Win32 float functions on NaN crashed + + doc changes: integer, NaN?, error-event, error-text, atan2 + +- 7.4.0rc2 + enabled error events in Win32 DLL module + + update finger example file and example in doc + doc change 'net-connect' + +- 7.4.0rc3 + floats now work in imported fuctions (tested on x86 platforms) + and up to 14 parameters (previously 10) are accepted, floats + count as two + + nth-set like set-nth but different return value, was in rc2 + but now documented + + doc changes: chapter 'Functions in groups', 'import', 'inc', 'dec' + arithmetik operators +,-,*,/, 'set-nth', 'nth-set' + 'sort', '%', 'mod', '<,>,=,<=,>=' + + doc new file: hacking_newlisp.html with describes previously + undocumented features + + 'for', 'dotimes', 'seqence', 'series' now return a 'invalid parameter: NAN' + error when NaN parameters are passed + +=============================================================================== +- 7.4.0 release 2003/12/20 +- 7.4.1 + commandline switch '-m N' where N is the max number of megabyte newLISP + is allowed to allocate for LISP cells + + setq,set!, define (as set) did not work right with dynamic context vars + +- 7.4.2 + %s format now recognizes precision i.e: (format "%5.2" "hello") => " he" + + various doc changes + + pop3.lsp now handles pop3 servers w/o LAST command, but only on the + functions: get-all-mail and delete-all-mail + + char did not convert the 0 correctly, now: (char 0) => "\000" + +- 7.4.3 + fixed printing context name when in a context other than MAIN + this affected the newlisp-tk frontend since v. 7.2.7 + + many doc corrections, now rev 5 + +- 7.4.4 + (now ... ) returns an additional number 'minutes west of GMT' + for the timezone offset + + the optional time ofset parameter in 'date' and 'now' must now + be given in minutes west of GMT, was previously in hours, + standard when using time zone offsets + + max cell count as specified in command line swith -m now second + number in 'sys-info' if not specified defaults to 0x10000000 + + doc addition of -m commandline switch and change in 'sys-info' + +- 7.4.5 + format now can take unlimited number of parameters, before 2048 + + changes in stat.lsp, smtp.lsp and httpd for new 'sys-info' + +- 7.4.6 + fixed problem in float -> integer conversion of big numbers + + attempt to fix for last parameter of 'now' for solaris (not tested) + +- 7.4.7 + updated to BWidget-1.7 in newlisp-tk (since 7.4.6) + + timezone offset in return value for 'now' set to 0 on SOLARIS + + plotting with stat.lsp and gnuplot was messed up on Win32, now + can also do multiple plot one after another using 'process' instead + of exec + + eliminated 'gettime' example, as that service doesn't run on most + computers these days + + 'import' on Win32 now can use cdecl calling conventions with + additional parameter string "cdecl" when importing functions. + This allows calling many third party DLLs without special wrapper DLLs + On LINUX etc. the extra parameter is ignored. + + mysql.lsp version 2.0, several functions changed and offsets defined + for MySQL v.4.0, previous versions will not work + +- 7.4.8 + improved error message for missing par + + sqlite.lsp - module for SQLite datavase from http://www.sqlite.org + + mysql.lsp small fixes and revised test routine, tested on MySQL v. 4.0 + + 'transpose' now transposes any kind of matrix (previously only matrices + containing numbers; it also rectangualarizes matrices; speed improved + 3 fold. + + in 'if' and 'cond': if the last condition given is the empty listy () + which evaluates to nil in a boolean context, and if no then/else actions + or now cond action is given, then the empty list () is returned (previusly nil) . + + fix for 'date' which crashed at values overflowing int32 (2038 1 19 3:14:07) + + logging has been changed to a fixed filename 'newlisp-log.txt + + new command line switch -h + + better pretty printing of symbols which are constant and global + +=============================================================================== +- 7.5.0 RELEASE 2004-01-21 + cgi.lsp, form.html, form.cgi where missing from FILES inventory + + new 'sqlite.cgi' web script for administering SQLite database in newLISP + + eliminated various unused vars with -w8004 + + fixded bug in 'global' printing + + changed directory structure, new dirs: doc, examples, modules + +- 7.5.1 + (rotate '()) crashed because of list length zero + + fixed nested catch/throw + + fixed lambda stack oberflow after 3000 catch + + eliminated array.lsp instead shorter hash.lsp for hash functions + + changed sqlite.lsp to version 1.6, name change for future + reserved word 'array' + + dynamic context var refs now work inside contexts, this makes + it possible to call constructors from inside the class context + + improvement of floating point speed 60% in simple arithmetik + and 25% in most floating point functions + + (format "%d" 1.23) => "1" before this was not permitted + (format "%5.2f" 10) => "10.00" also allowed now + +- 7.5.2 + (array i j k aList), returns a 1 to 8 dimensional array and + initializes optionally from flat list in aList + + (array-list myArray) returns a list conversion of myArray + + (aray? expr) tests if expression is a list + + all array acces modification via nth, set-nth and nth-set + + also released benchmarks comparing with Perl, Python and Guile, + see at: http://newlisp.org/benchmarks + + +- 7.5.3 + (seek 0) now returns numbers of characters printed to stdout, + works on BSD but on LINUX and Win32 will always return -1 + + 'integer' now takes additional base parameter after the + default parameter, i.e: (integer "1111" 0 2) => 15 + note, that hex numbers still need to be prefixed with 0x + even when specifying base 16 + + added txt2pdf.lsp as a new module in the module directory + + comprehensive manual edit by Brian Clausing (thanks!) + + new chapter about linking LISP source and executable + + all deprecated functions thrown out: + concat, remove, replace-nth, sublist, substring, read-process + read-url, write-process. All have replacements, see manual. + + changed cgi.lsp, stat.lsp, spam-filter for deprecated functions + + 1% overall speed improvement 0.5% size reduction + + nth didn't work on lambda in 7502 + + 'format' increasing of ars beyond 2048 has been rolled back + because of problems when evaluation of args is deeply nested + +- 7.5.3a + changes in newlisp-tk.tcl for deprecated 'remove' + changes in qa for deprecated functions + + +- 7.5.4 + 15% speedup in 'format' + + writeStreamStr() and readStreamText() did not handle zeros + + 'source' like save on strings eliminates tmp directory in + new newlisp-tk v.1.09 + + 1000+ times speedup in XML parsing of bigger files + changing a strncpy() to a memcpy() + +- 7.5.6 + newlisp-tk 1.10 now shows message box when trying to open + debugger with browsers at the same time + + updated FILES inventory + + logging did not work as described (was always on with -p -d) + + net-listen and net-receive-udp take as an additional optional + parameter the address the listening socket should bind for + computers with multiple network adapters + + optional last parameter in net-send-udp for specifying + broadcast mode with 'true' (or anything not evaluating to nil), + not necessary on wome Win OS where '255' on last address byte + is enough to turn on broadcast mode + + Ctrl-C handler simple on Win32 and with continue, exit, reset + menu on LINUX/BSD (somewhat unreliable?) + + Broken Pipe on net-send now handled correctly on Linux/BSD + is handled by socket stack on Win32 + + (slice str 1 -1) does not crash anymore (length arg should + never be negative) + +- 7.5.7 + signal handlers now initialized before loading commandline + scripts + +- 7.5.8 + shorter code for swap + + defunct zombie child processes now cleaned up by 'process' + on UNIXs + + fixed potential bug in regex replace when replacement expression + evaluates to no-string + +- 7.5.9 + all functions changing the contents of a symbol (destructive + functions) will now cause an error when used on symbols protected + with 'constant', previously it worked only with set, set!, setq + and define, define-macro; loop variables in dotimes, for, dolist + and dotree are protected against change by user with an error + message during looping and may not be constant before the looping + starts using them + + new manual chapter about 'Variable names and numbers syntax" + + bug fixes/additions in httpd, now version 3.3 + + fixed potential memory overwrites in nl-web.c + + error message length limited to 1024 characters + +- 7.5.10 + rolled back symbol protection for dotree and dolist, which + is not necessary + +- 7.5.11 + new mode for 'open' "pipe' or "p" opens a named pipe non-blocking + for reading + +- 7.5.12 + rolled back protection for dotimes, for loop variable solving + crash problem in different way + +- 7.5.14 + documentation fixes and compiler warnings fixes + + two additional file for viewing manual in frames with index + + the Win32 installer puts entries in startmenu including an uninstall + + The WIn32 installer puts a newLISP icon in desktop and startmenu links + + protect built-in functions from overwriting with import but the + function can still be imported in a context different from MAIN + + eliminated "pipe" or "p" mode in 'open' instead "non-block" or "n" + as additional option after "read" or "write" option + + net-lookup, net-select, net-send-udp, net-peek did not clear net-error + + net-select now can accept a list of sockets instead of one socket + net-select now has a third mode "exception" or "e" to test error + conditions on socket + + apply works reducing a list when additional reduce count is given + + load takes multiple filenames + +- 7.5.15 + integer and float now return nil or the default value when type + other than string or number is specified, previously this + caused an error message + + expanded chapter on Tcl/Tk Variables in: + "Writing applications with newLISP and Tcl/Tk" + +- 8.0.0rc1 + added more examples to newlisp-tk.html + + allow [cmd] tag in -d mode + + reopen mode in [cmd] section for potential memory leak after + error conditions or on reconnect + + allow contexts to be overcopied (broke benchmarks) + +- 8.0.0rc3 + re-fixes the memory leak for [cmd] tags + +- 8.0.0rc4 + doc changes manpage + + take abs() value in -m commandline option + + reorder help menu for logical sequence of options + + newlisp-tk 1.12 now tolerant for not finding "Fixedsys", + "Lucida Console" or "fixed" fnt. Will take first font found + + newlisp-tk 1.12 now save newlisp-tk.con correctly in home directory + of UNIX (startup dir in Win32) + + man page for LINUX et al, thankyou Nigel Brown + +- 8.0 released April 7 2004 ============================================ + version nunbers changed from 8.0.0 to 8.0 to distinguish + rc versions from final version + + sys-info now returns 7 as OS number of win32dll + + corrections in MemoryManagement.html and newlisp_manual.html + +- 8.0.1 + changed package version number to dotted form for compatibility with + RPM packaging + + changed Makefile install option for RPM compatibility and added + 'make rpm' for makeing rpm package + + man page for newlisp-tk + + array was not serialized correctly in 'source' and 'save' + + negative indices in arrays, which are too big now give out-of-bounds + error (previously took first element as for lists) + + now up to 16 indices can be specified, previously 8 + + changes in docs for array chapter and functions + + in newLISP-tk under Linux/Unix file open dialog now starts + with /usr/share/newlisp/newlisp-tk + + +- 8.0.2 Released 2004-05-02 ============================================ + + httpd version 3.5 + + doc changes + +- 8.0.3 + constant did not allow multiple args + + parse now recognizes zero length token and stops parsing + instaed of going into a loop + + fix for contextvars in tcl/tlk IDE v1.15 and p_context() + + bug fixes in cgi.lsp now v.1.5 + + documentation corrections + + a bug fix in the reset routine + +- 8.0.4 + fixed the fix in reset + + cell leaks in error messages in catch/throw situations are now avoided + +- 8.0.5 + filter now filters nil symbols like nil values (like if, while, not etc) + this effects the function index in the same way + + access system variables $0, $1 ... etc. with an index ($ 0), ($ 1) .. ($ i) + where i is an integer + + bug fix for catch when result variable has same contents as return from + catch statement + +- 8.0.6 Released 2004-06-06 ============================================ + new env replaces deprecated environ, getenv, putenv (still available but + to be eliminated in 8.1) + + additional paragraph about ovewriting global symbols in the chapter + 'Contexts' + +- 8.0.7 + net-receive-udp can take an additional timeout parameter + + doc changes for net-receive-udp + + new example whitelist-filter for email filtering + +- 8.0.8 + trim now can take optional second trim-character parameter: + (trim "---HELLO===" "-" "=") => "HELLO" + (trim "0001234" "0" "") => "1234" + allows trimming of only one side (empty string) or different + trimming left and right + + new functions 'utf8' and 'unicode' to convert between utf8 + and UCS-4 encoded Unicode + + UTF-8 versions of: char, upper-case, lower-case, first, rest, + chop, explode, last, trim, collect select, + nth, set-nth, nth-set + + any positions/indices in the UTF-8 versions of char, nth + set-nth and nth-set refer to (multibyte)character positions + rather than byte positions + + find and regex return byte positions, slice takes byte positions + reverse always works on byte level, to reverse utf8 strings use: + (join (reverse (explode str))) + + changed parsing of octal numbers 090 now "0" "90" + +- 8.0.9 + 'source' now also working on context symbols + fix for 'trim' in utf8 version + fix for 'set-nth' and 'nth-set' in utf8 version + version 3.7 httpd fixing problems with post on IE + +- 8.0.10 + 'net-sessions' now registers connecting peer in -p -d modes + makefiles for MinGW compiler for newlisp.exe and newlisp.dll + MinGW will eventually replace Borland BCC 5.5 as the default + compiler for the Win32 binary distribution + +- 8.0.11 + a fix for server crash in -d mode when reconnecting on Linux + +- 8.0.12 + now will reset when client exits in -d demon mode (still does + not maintain demon mode on slackware 2.4 but Debian 2.6 + Linux Mandrakae 9.2/2.4.22 and FreeBSD 4.7 are OK) + + new function (dup expr n) repeats expression n times in + list or string + function 'pipe' works on MinGW compiled version + +- 8.0.13-14 + fix of 'test-pipe' in fle qa + new option in Makefile: make uninstall + /usr/share/newlisp/init.lsp now tries to load $HOME/.init.lsp + as a user specific .init.lsp after the system wide init.lsp + $HOME gets defined as (env "HOME") or (env "USERPROFILE") + or (env "DOCUMENT_ROOT") + whatever is available in that sequence + fixes restart problem in demon mode + +- 8.0.15 + makefiles for newlisp as a shared library on Linux and BSD: + newlisp.so, the function to import is: newlispEvalStr + + 'print' and 'println' in newlisp.dll now are always + returned correctly in the return value of 'dllEvaStr' + was not working correctly before in many cirumstances + + 'newlispEvalStr' will replace 'dllEvalStr' in future + version in newlisp.dll, at the moment both work + this change was made for consistency over platforms + + new chapter "Shared library newlisp.so on Linux/BSD" in users manual + +- 8.0.16 + doc changes for 'net-receive-udp' + 'net-receive-udp' can now receive on a specific IP address, this + was documented already but not working + + 'net-connect' and 'net-listen' ca use a "udp" option to do + nonblocking UDP data exchange with net-send and net-receive and + without immediate closing of socket as happening using + net-receive-udp and net-send-udp. See documenataion for + net-listen and net-connect in the manual + + improved error message for missing parenthesis + + newlisp.vim VIM syntax file now included in source distribution + thanks to David from http://www.geocities.com/excaliborus/ for + this contribution + + updated the CREDITS file + + all predicates, which ended in p when using HTML (i.e. listp for list?) + have been renamed to using the '?' instead of 'p' in HTML to make + utilities, which position in the newlisp_manual.html work + +- 8.1.0rc1 + fixed memory leak in 'irr' + + new 'net-receive-from' and 'net-send-to' for non-blocking UDP + communications over open connections + +- 8.1.0rc2 + an almost double speed and smaller parser for pack/unpack format strings, + which does not need spaces in between the format specifiers + + a fix in net-send-udp not closing the socket after the new changes in rc1 + + doc changes + +- 8.1.0 Released version on 2004-08-10 ======================================== + two new example programs: udp-server.lsp and udp-client.lsp to demo + non-blockig UDP communications + + merged bugfixes from dlcompat as of cvs 2004-07-12 Peter O'Gorman + this affects only Mac OSX + + added -c option for suppressing the prompt + + added node.lsp in modules directory for building newLISP clusters. + + new versions of several modules and example files to account for + new version numbering + +- 8.1.1 + sleep now rounds to the nearest full second on systems where nanosleep() + is not available. + + timeout option in net-receive-udp works again + +- 8.1.2 + 'make install_home' and 'make uninstall_home' of installations on Linux/UNIX + in the home directory of the user in $HOME/bin and $HOME/share/ + + 'search' crashed on invalid filehandles + + new 'expand' for expanding variable bindings in lists + +- 8.1.3 + a fix for 'get-url' on some Solaris installations + +- 8.1.4 released August 21st, 2004 ========================================== + doc changes ansd new option 'make version' for changing version numbers + in all affected files + +- 8.1.5 + nl-sock.c missed a change for Win CE, PocketPC + + qa - testfile now complete with all functions, use: ./newlisp qa to test + without process and test functions using process, or use: ./newlisp qa ext + to test for all function (only Win32 and Linux) + + a fix for timeout values > 1000000 usec on BSD and Solaris in net-select + and net-receive-udp + + in net-listen and net-connect specify "multi" or "m" instead of "udp" + for UDP Multicast mode + +- 8.1.6 + 'collect' and 'select' are collapsed into 'select' which is now also + type polymorph on the second parameter. + + new makefile_solaris_utf8 + + new 'fork' function for lauching a newLISP child process thread + on Linux/UNIX only and CYGWIN on Win32. + +- 8.1.7 + fixed rounding error in 'sleep' when compiled with NANOSLEEP + + improved qa routines using 'fork' on Linux/UNIX for some tests + +- 8.1.8 + new 'wait-pid'for watching the status of child threads created with 'fork' + and proccesses created with 'process' + + upgraded to PCRE v. 5.0 + + more tweaks in qa file + + fixed potential memory leak in 'new' + +- 8.2.0 Release September 21st, 2004 ====================================== + +- 8.2.1 + write-buffer can now take string instead of file handle to write + to a string in a string growing (concatenating) fashion, this is + much faster then doing (set 'str (append str content)) now: + (write-buffer str content) + + 'symbol' now can overwrite global symbols from MAIN (i.e. built-ins) + i.e. (symbol "print" 'MyContext) + + 'process' now ca take to addtioal pipe handle parameters, which + get mapped to stdin and stdout for the new process: + (map '(myin bcout) (pipe)) + (map '(bcin myout) (pipe)) + (process "bc" bcin bcout) + (write-buffer myout "3 + 4\n") + (read-line myin) => "7" + + 'semaphore' lets you create wait and signal semaphores + (set 'sid (semaphore)) ; aquire + (semaphore sid -1) ; wait + (semaphore sid 1) ; signal + (semaphore sid) => 1 ; status + (semaphore sid 0) ; release/delete + + 'share' to create shared memrory regions + (share) => address off mmap share + (share addr exp) => sets addr to exp for integers, floats and strings + (share addr) => returns integer, float or string exp + + added newLISP-Excel-Import.xls example to examples/ directory + added prodcons.lsp - demo for fork, wait-pid, semaphore and share + +- 8.2.2 + 'write-line' with string device like 'write-buffer', in both + symbol is now protected if protected with constant + + share was broken for strings + +- 8.2.3 + + pipe is now also available on CGWIN and Borland compiled versions + on all Win32 versions pipe can now remap std I/O like on Linux/UNIX: + + (map '(myin bcout) (pipe)) + (map '(bcin myout) (pipe)) + (process "bc" bcin bcout) + (write-buffer myout "3 + 4\n") + (read-line myin) => "7" + + process on Win32 can hide or minimize window: + (process application 0 0 0) => hide app + (process application 0 0 1) => show app + (process application 0 0 2) => minimize app + + 'share' and 'semaphore' are now also available on Win32 + + improvements in qa file, now tests all functions by default w/o ext option + better syncronization on some tests with semaphores + + 'match' in list mode now only returns matched expressions + + (map set '(x y) (match '(a (? c) d *) '(a (b c) d e f))) + x => b + y => (e f) + + when using match with an optional third parameter 'true', it works + in the old fashion: (map pattern aList true) => works like before + + The context default function is a userdefined function with the same name + as the context it resides in, i.e: (define (ctx:ctx a b) (+ a b)) and can + be called just with the context name (ctx 3 4) => 7. + Default functions should only be called rom MAIN, or have already been + loaded or their context created before referred to in another context or + default function. Not yet 'official' see doc/default_functions.html + + fixed cell leak in 'match' on backtracking + + bug fix in let which did not honor protected symbols + +- 8.2.4 + deprecated collect, getenv, putenv and environ completely eliminated from + newlisp and examples, modules: httpd, cgi.lsp, sqlite.lsp + + '+' new wildcard operator 'match': take one or more + + net-error now returns error number and text separate in a list + + net-connect failure did not set net-error + + 'now' has now the daylight-savings-flag 0 or 1 as last parameter + + new 'sys-error' for reporting C-library errno values + + 'newlisp -e' without a command string crashed + + 'push' now optimized when pushing as last element with -1 + + (new ...) now will not overwrite existing symbols, to allow true + mixins of other contexts. To overwrite symbols as before version + 8.2.4 use the true as a third parameter i.e. (new A 'B true). + +- 8.2.5 + 'symbol?' can now be used on dymamic context vars, i.e + (set 'ctx MyCTX) ; MyCTX is existing context + (symbol? 'ctx:x) ; true if MyCTX:x exists, nil if not + This checks the xistence without inadvertantly creating it. + previously (symbol "x" ctx nil) had to be used. + + 'replace' can now take an additional option bit 0x8000 for replacing + only once in a string: (replace "a" "aaa" "A" 0x8000) => "Aaa" + + + 'define-new' copies individual funtions from + other contexts with or without renaming them to a new function:. + (define-new 'foo:func 'bar:func) copy to different context + (define-new 'foo:func 'foofa) copy to current and rename + + forward referece to a symbol in symbol did not work in mixin mode + of 'new' + + the space between optioncharacter (-s,-m,-p,-d,-e) and optionvalue + can now be omitted, i.e. -s 10000 and -s10000, both work. + + 'date' without an argument returns the character string for the current + local time, this avoids the construct (date (apply date-value (now))) + + 'date-value' without and argument returns the time of seconds + since 1970-1-1 0:00 equivalent to (apply date-value (now)) + +8.2.6 + 'delete' now can delete an entire context without removing conatined + symbols first + + serialization of contexts to a file using 'save' now is done correctly + when the context context contains overwrites of global symbols. + + a more flexible and faster 'symbol' function, which can take any character + sequence and numbers, and can be used this way for hash-like associative + memory access. New module hash.lsp to show usage. + + 'define-new' renamed to 'def-new', for shorter typing and for not + associating it to 'define' but rather to 'new' (was introduced in 8.2.5) + + 'letn' works similar to 'let' but incrementally uses the local variable + bindings like multiple nested let when evaluating the initializer expressionsi + for locals. + +8.2.7 + 'address' (previously only documented in 'hacking_newlisp.html') now also + returns addresses to integer and double float data type, useful when passing + int * or double * to imported functions, now documented in main manual + + 'sym' is an abbreviated form of 'symbol', since 'symbol' starting in 8.2.6 + can take any sequence of characters, including strings which are illegal + symbols in newLISP syntax, and is used for hash/dictionat like lookups, it + is used more often, therefore this shorter form 'sym' is introduced + + added configuration variable in newlisp-tk.config to specify a newLISP + application. See newlisp-tk.html "Delievering Applications" for details + + 'apply' and 'map' now can be used on macros + + 'pack' and 'unpack' have new format specifier 'b' for unsigned 8bit numbers + + 'encrypt' crashed on empty strins in key + +8.2.8 + 'encrypt' crashed on empty key-string, now gives error message + + 'int' as shorter writing of 'integer' + + 'pack' now converts all types as needed, i.e. (unpack "b" (pack "b" -1.0)) => 255 + from-to integer-floats, did it before only for "f" and "lf" + + 'flt' converts a number to a 32bit float repesented by an integer for usage + in calling imported library routines, which take floats. + + 'array' skipped wrong index types instead of giving error message + +8.3.0 Released Nov 21st, 2004 + +8.3.1 Released Nov 23rd, 2004 ============================================ + 'nth-set' gave error on protected symbol in index + + 'apply' 'map' on macro was returned to 8.2.0 behaviour + +8.3.2 + more cleanup in qa file + + cleaned up makefiles -D definitions eliminating redundant -DOPSYS + + eliminated 'break', which did not do anything after introduction + of 'debug' in version 6.3.07 + + overall speedup of about 5% by predefining system symbols + $0 -> $15, speedup of 80% to 100% in functions using system + symbols like set-nth, nth-set, find, parse, regex, replace + + new 'do-while' and 'do-until' check condition _after_ evaluating + the body expressions + + new 'read-key' reads nonblocking keyboard character code + not working on Mac OSX but all other flavors + + superflous args in user defined function call caused cell leak + never happened, i.e.: (define (foo x) ..) and (foo a b c) + + 'get-url' now handles "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" correctly + + 'amb' picks an argument at random and evaluates it + + -x command line switch for server mode with handler function + 'x-event' i.e: newlisp my-httpd -x 8080 + my-httpd is a lisp file containing the user defined handler + function i.e: (define (x-event request) .....) + this way servers for different protocols / requests can be simply + programmed using 'print','read-line', etc., for IO to the specified + port, the connection stays up until closed by the client. + See chapter 'Command line options ...' in the manual + + fixed a bug in 'new' and 'def-new' when the source was MAIN + this fix was necessary to write a function (def-static ....) + for writing statically scoped functions (see int the manual + chapter 'Lexical, static scoping in newLISP', subchapter + of 'Programming with context objects'. + +8.3.3 + 'debug' did not handle default functions written without colon + + 'save' 'source' did not space symbols under sum circumstances + + 'dolist' now double as fast and safe to break out with 'throw' + + 'catch' now has an additional syntax with just one argument to write + easier returns from functions, loops or blocks, ie: + (catch (dotimes (x 1000) (if (x 500) (throw "fin"))) => "fin" + returns the result or throw argument + +8.3.4 + 'save' 'source' spacing-fix was incomplete + +8.3.5 + If the a '!' is entered as the first character on the command line immediately + followed y a shell command, that command will be executed, i.e. !lsi in Unix + or !dir in Win32 would show a directory listing. There should be no space + between '!' and the shell command. + + URL length in get-url and post-url is now unlimited + +8.3.6 + manual corrections, additions and new sub-chapter about XML-RPC + + BASE64 encoding and decoding with 'base64-enc' and 'base64-dec'. + + new sign-on message, and different for remote modes + + added 'xmlrpc-server' to examples directory + added 'xmlrpc-client.lsp' to modules directory + + fix for 'Transfer-encoding: chunked' if 'Content-length:' + is given too (which should not happen but is found occasionally) + +8.4.0 Released 2005-01-18 ============================================ + added xmlrpc.cgi for handling XML-RPC requests as CGI + + fixed a file descriptor leak in -d -x modes + + after the 'debug' fix in 8.3.3 debug did not recurse into funcs + + 'args' can take an index argment i.e. (args 0) (args 1) etc. + +8.4.1 + fixed signon message missing 'n'ewLISP + + added UTF-8 to signon message + + added f-prob to stat.lsp (probability of F ratio for df1/def2) + + (throw-error expr) throws an error with message printed in expr + error thrown this way can be handled like any other newLISP error + using (catch foo 'result) or with (error-event ...) + + changed/added docs for catch, throw, throw-error and chapter: + Integer abnd Floating point ... + + newlisp-tk.exe now wrapped with freewrap v.6.0 and Tcl/Tk 8.4.8 + suppresses occasional display of tcwish console + + added updated newlisp.jsf syntax file for JOE editor to distribution + +8.4.2 + [cmd] tags did not work when compiled with READLINE option + + (args) which previously worked only in macros now too works in + functions. The behaviour of (args) has changed: only unbound arguments + for which there is now local variable in the macro (or function) are + returned in the list. This makes changes in existing macros necessary, + which specify both, local variables and they use args. Most changes + lead to simpler macros or function, because (args) already contains + only the unassigned args. + + changed macro definition of 'tk' in newlisp-tk.tcl to function + + changed plot 'macro' in stat.lsp and 'defun' in init.lsp + +8.4.3 Release 2005-02-12 ================================================= + cleanup from (args) changes, protect $args from deletion + +8.4.4 + misplaced paren in conditional def of defun in init.lsp + + OS number in sys-info was incrementing on every call when DLL or UTF-8 + + decimal point setting from locale is now used correctly when parsing source + i.e. after performing (set-locale "German_Germany.1252") in Germany + 1,23 will be recognized corectly as a decimal number with comma as the + decimal separator. + + qa_comma QA test file for German or other locales using ',' comma as + decimal separator, qa renamed to qa_dot for decimal-dot locales. + In comma locales both, qa_dot and qa_comma should work, in decimal + dot countries onlz qa_dot will work. + + daylights savings field in 'now' function now shows a flag 1/0 if time + zone may have DST at certain time of the year on Linux/UNIX. On Win32 + it shows a 'daylight minutes bias' for timezones which may have DST. + Note that flag/bias is set through all the year even if DST is not + in effect at a given moment. May not work on all platforms. + + additional format parameter in (date num offset fmt), see GNU gcc + strftime() function for details + + Win32 installation now to $PROGRAMFILES/newlisp, which is + c:\Program Files\newlisp on English Windows. This defines a + fixed location for $PROGRAMFILES/newlisp/newlisp.dll for applications + loading newlisp.dll. 'PROGRAMFILES' is an environment variable available + on all MS Windows installations. + + newLISP is now correctly registered in the + 'control panel/add or remove programs' applet + +8.4.5 + newlisp.exe compiled on MinGW or Borland now will look for init.lsp + in the same directory where newlisp.exe resides + + installer now sets path on Win32, this allows to import the DLL without + specifying the full path and allows to start newlisp or newlisp-tk from + anywhere on Win32 + + installer now allows installing without newlisp-tk + + 'nth' upgraded to 16 indices (like set-nth and nth-set) + + 'sort' now allows any binary operator user defined function as + compare funtion in third parameter + + 'implicit indexing' on lists, arrays and strings i.e.: + (lst 1 3) equivalent to (nth 1 3 lst) + (ary 0 -1) equivalent to (nth 0 -1 ary) + ("newLISP" 3) equivalent to (nth 3 "newLISP") + unlimited number of indices and faster than explicit form + + 'pack' and 'unpack' now allow switching between little and big endian + byte order using new format characters '<' and '>' + + +8.4.6 + 'new' and 'def-new' did not replicate arrays, could cause crash + +8.4.7 + added 'upload.htm', 'uplload.cgi' to examples directory + minor fix in xmlrpc.cgi xmlrpc-server + + better handling of bad server responses in get/post/put-url avoiding + an ifinite loop on some types of bad server responses + + fix for endian switch in 'unpack' which changed the original buffer + + re-arranged arrays, hashes and indexing chapters in the manual and + enhanced hashing chapter, added Win32 trailing slash warning to + manual entries of 'directory' and 'directory?' + + experimental implicit indexing with nrest: + (1 '(a b c)) => (b c) + (1 "abc") => "bc" + +8.4.8 + implicit indexing with slice: + (3 2 '(a b c d e f g)) => (d e) + (-4 2 "abcdefg") => "de" + + updated infix.lsp to version 1.4/5 was broken after newLISP 8.2.0 + because of change in 'symbol' functioanality + + possibility to check legality of a string as a newLISP source symbol + with (symbol? string), i.e: (symbol? "a b") => nil + + illegal symbols are now serialized correctly in 'save' using a + set expression with (sym str context) + + the Win32 installer now will correctly change settings in + newlisp-tk.config when chaning the install path during installation + will only work Windows 2000 and later + +8.4.9 + did not evaluate length in implicit slice-length + +8.4.10 + separated legal symbol? functionality into 'legal?' function. 'symbol?' + back to pre 8.4.8 functionality + +8.5.0 Released April 8, 2005 + '=' fixed problem when comparing strings and binary buffers + + 'args' with negative index did hang + + 'main-args' nor can be indexed like args, both accept negative indices + +8.5.1 + newlisp-tk tripped over file spec "", changed to "." in lastLoadedFile + on MacOSX. Changed Demo.lsp to work with TLCKAqua on MacOSX. + + new function 'factor' for factoring numbers up to 15 digits + (must give floats for numbers bigger max int) + + in newlisp.so and newlisp.dll main-args was initilized to nil instead of + the empty list () + + list in 'dolist' now safe to modify (back to 8.3.2 behaviour), but can + leave with 'throw' without leaking cells + + signalling SIGUSR1 will perform a 'reset' but not kill newLISP + + 'timer' start a one shot timer event and registers a user defined + event handler, i.e: (define (ticker) (println (date)) (timer 'ticker 1)) + defines a self starting and retriggering ticker. + +8.5.2 + added debug option to SIGINT handler, eliminated SIGUSR1 handler, because + is redundant + +8.5.3 + added 'signal' for userdefined signal handlers: (signal sig-no symbol) + + args was not reset to '() when left unused in recursion levels + +8.5.4 + signal handler can pass the signal number as an argument (see manual) + + new makefiles for OSX/Darwin UTF-8: make 'osx_utf8' and make 'darwin_osx_utf8' + (Darwin means: OSX + readline support) + + when compiled with readline support newLISP will now exit pressing Ctrl-D + (Linux/UNIX) + + 'net-select' crashed on an empty list + +8.5.5 + fixed UTF-8 problems in file names in newlisp-tk.tcl (thanks Norman) + + UTF-8 symbols where not treated as legal symbols in 'save' , 'legal?' + This prevented UTF-8 symbols to show up in the editor/browser listbox. + This is now fine on all UTF-8 and non-UTF-8 version. + + UTF-8 now handled correctly in hostnames in net-xxx routines + + UTF-8 now handled correctly in 'float' and 'integer', took some + UTF-8 characters for numbers. + + 'net-connect' and 'net-select' did not accept/convert floats for + portnumbers/sockets + + sqlite3.lsp v.1.3 now handles FLOAT and BLOB datatypes and finds the correct + library/location depending on the OS platform + + newlisp-tk did not save pathnames correctly in newlisp-tk.conf. New + + version newLISP-tk 1.26 now works correctly when installing on MacOSX + use 'sudo make install' after build with 'make darwin' or 'make osx' + needs TclTk Aqua installed with darwin port tools + +8.5.6 + fixed potential problem in 'net-connect' with multicast option on + big-endian CPUs (MacOSX) + + added broadcast option to 'net-connect' as udp mode plus broadcast specified + with "b" or "broadcast" instead od "udp". Broadcast mode was already possible + in 'net-send-udp'. Now broadcast can be set up in non-blocking mode on the + receiver side. + + +8.5.7 + big speedup of 'replace' with strings on a file of 100k about 30x on + 500k about 500x times speedup. + + added example/tcltk.lsp for showing how to make GUIs without newlisp-tk + controlled from a newlisp script + + +8.5.8 + added true/nil as allowed data in memory shares + + added new make flavor osx_lib for shared library newlisp.so + + MacOSX binary are smaller now because since 10.3 osx-dlfcn.o + is not required anymore, but extra makefile_osx_10.2 for older + Mac's + + flushing stdio after output if not in terminal mode lets newLISP + now serve as a UNIX inetd handler + +8.5.9 + 'timer' now can take fractions of a second, i.e. (timer 'alarm 0.1) + for 100 millisec + + 'read-buffer' now can take an optional wait string as 4th parameter + similar to 'net-receive' with wait string + + added Mac OSX package preperation to Makefile + + dropped cygwin support. MinGW and Borland remain as Win32 options + #ifdef's for cygwin are still there but have not been tested for + several versions + +8.5.10 + fixed a crash when hitting cursor-up inbetween [cmd]...[/cmd] tags + + 'timer' now avalailable on Win32 + + fixed a regex error, when expression found is of length 0 + only one replacement was made + + implicit indexing did not accept indices after a var-index, if + var-index was the first. + +8.6.0 released June 10 2005 + a bug fix for unpack when passing a number as an address on + OpenBSD where virtual memory pointers may be > 0x7fffffff + + new function crc32, version: http://www.w3.org + + share on Win32 leaked memory + +8.6.1 + 'sql3:open' now returns nil and sets error the message when trying + to sql3:open twice. + + 'timer' now returns the elapsed time when calling just with the + event symbol, useful for checking timer progress or programming + timelines/schedules. + + 'source' now works like 'save' and can take multiple symbols; + context symbols are serialized including all of the contained + symbols. + + Files are now created without execution permission with rw-rw-rw + which results in rw-r--r-- on UNIX systems assuming a user mask + of 0022. + + 'peek' similar to 'net-peek' but for any file descriptor, returns + number of bytes ready to read works also on std I/O 0/1. Only UNIX. + + Added gmp.lsp for GNU Multi Precision library, contains + integer functions for arithmetik, see header of file gmp.lsp + for details. + + optional parameter 'true' in 'difference' and 'intersect' puts + these functions in list-mode (versus normally set-mode). + + new function 'title-case' upper-cases first character and + optionally lowercases the rest characters + +8.6.2 + changed makefile_darwin_utf8 to work on standard 10.4 installation + + a parameter in utf8 version of upper/lower was evaluated twice + caused by new title-case code in 8.6.1 + + fixed append mode in file 'open' which created file with ------ + permissions when file did not exists + + optional 'true' flag in net-lookup to force hostbyname() lookup + for strings like "216.16.84.66.sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org" + + huge speedup for 'difference' and 'intersect'. On a 10000 elment + list about 100 times speedup, both functions now scale linearly + with n+m instead of n*m, when n an m are the lenghts of the two + lists + + speedup of 'count' for big item lists now scales m+n instead m*n + when m is the list of items to count in list with length n + +8.6.3 + 'difference' did sometimes not unique, 'nil' treated incorrectly + +8.6.4 + fixed problems in 'count' and 'sort' caused by changes in 'sort' + necessary in new version of 'count', 'difference', 'intersect' and + 'unique' + +8.6.5 + 'catch' did not respect protection of symbols in the catch symbol + + make version with sed finally working on UNIX previously only + cygwin + + new function 'randomize' shuffles the elements of a list + + new function 'net-eval' evaluates a batch of functions remotely + on newlisp servers, manages Tcp/Ip communications and data collection + with multiple servers started with: newlisp -c -d + timeout and optional callback/idle function + + 'array' with 0 length dimension crashed, now ignores 0-length + + -d mode would exit when loss of communication in multiline [cmd] mode + now just cycles to restart + + 'error-event' only worked in programs loaded interactively, now works + also defined in scripts started on the command line + + -l and -L now usable for logging in normal console mode, -l logs only + user input -L logs both user input and newLISP output (without prompt) + new chapter for logging in users manual + + when evaluating multiple expressions on the command line or a batch + of expressions enclosed in [cmd],[/cmd] tags multiple results are now + separated by one space. + +8.6.5-7 + 'ramdomize' looped on listlen 1 + + 'load' now throws an eror when the file cannot be found or returns + the value of the last expression in the file evaluated. Before 'load' + returned 'nil' when file was not found and else 'true'. Note that this + required a change in init.lsp to catch error when trying to load + $HOME/.init.lsp + + eliminated all sprintf() to avoid security warnings on openBSD compiles + + 'erf' and 'sgn' new functions + + took out txt2pdf which is broken, will come back when fixed + + fixed leak in evluateStream introduced with 'net-eval' + +8.7.0-rc1 released October 10th 2005 + 'get-url' now acccepts https:// pages in main url or moved location + + 'sgn' extended with optional triconditional functionality + + fixed result stack leak in 'net-eval' + + 'get-url', 'post-url' and 'put-url' now can take a timeout parameter + + 'read-buffer' with wait string now will put bytes read in buffer + including when the wait string was not found. When no bytes are + read buffer is nil. + + 'date-value' returned negative numbers on dates earlier 1970, now returns + 0 on dates previous to 1970 + + 'net-eval' would loop on connection errors, more detailed error messages + +8.7.0 released October 15th + 'append-file' like 'write-file' but appends + + 'select' on lists with an empty selection list now returns the empty list + previously nil. + +8.7.1 RELEASE Nov 7th, 2005 + fixed bug for push -1 optimization and various doc corrections + + replaced 'integer' with 'int', 'get-integer' with 'get-int' and 'symbol' + with 'sym' in several examples/ and modules/ files + + (nth ) now throws error (list index only allowed in + push/pop and implicit indexing) + +8.7.2 development Release November 20th + new (net-ping host wait-time) returns ip-no or multiple ip-no for multiple + addresses in batch-mode or broadcast. Must have root privileges to use, or + set the newlisp executable set-user-ID with: chmod u+s /usr/bin/newlisp or: + chmod 4755 /usr/bin/newlisp; only on UNIX + + 'time' now safe for midnight wrap + + 'dup' with optional 'true' flag now can force list return when a string argument + is given; by default 'dup' concatenates the string + + sys-error now reset after readline(), which caused it set to 22 + + 'transpose' on empty lists segfaulted when on zero length dimension in the + first row, now an error message will be issued if the first row is empty + + imnplicit rest failed strings when n was >= length of string + + 'count', 'difference' and 'intersect' crashed when handling identical lists + +8.7.3 development release November 27th + added "list" flag to 'get-url', which permits capturing header and page in a list. + + added custom header option to get-url, post-url and put-url + + string display translation for char > 126 to \nnn format + +8.7.4 development release December 5th, 2005 + expanded functionality for 'context': (context 'CTX "symstr" value) + adds symbol to context CTX, (context 'CTX "symstr") returns value + this is a short form for: (set (sym "symstr" 'CTX) 123) + + expanded form of 'context?' for checking existence of a symbol + + 'time' takes an additional parameter for the number of times the + expression should be evaluated for timing + + cleanup format, file and directory routines (less code) + + the terminating character from an expression returned in the console has been + changed from a space to a line feed + +8.7.5 Development release December 23rd + added util/newlisp.plist syntax file for OSX BBEdit or TextWrangler editors + + raw mode in 'net-eval' now documented + + recognize simple path-href in 'location:' header spec in get/post/put -url + + in 'process' on UNIX an optional pipe handle for standard error can be specified + if not present standard error gets redirected to stdout + + allow default functions to be defined as primitives + + shortened symbol param loop in evaluateLambda and evlaluateMacro + + getContext() now safe for debug mode + + 'replace-assoc' gets additional (long overdue) syntax to remove associations + + help-option in context console menu on newlisp-tk (not working on OS X) + +8.7.6 + Help buttons now work on MacOS X in newlisp-tk + + fixed and issue with 'case' when a 'true' clause was assembled from an + evaluated 'true + + handle some cases of self reference in set-nth/nth-set, i.e: the replacement sub + expression itlself changes the place its supposed to be assigned: + (set-nth i L (set-nth i L 99)) ) + + : (colon) now will be returned as token even if attached to other following chars + + 'parse' without regex parameter couild overrun string when it ended in \ + +8.7.7 + regular expression support in 'directory' + + new 'number?' works like (or (float? x) (integer? x)) + + in newlisp-tk help on hightlighted reserved word now works on MacOS X bringing + up browser with manual on right spot. (Ctrl-Left-Button for context menu) + + new (bayes-train list-A list-B [list-C ...] context-symbol) lists contain + string tokens; and (bayes-query list-query context), not documented yet, + still testing and modifying + + memory error fix in 'get-url' for chunked pages + +8.7.8 development release January 16th 2006 + 'apply' now works on lists with unlimited length, no stack limit + + both Bayesan modes: Chain Bayesian and R.A. Fisher CHi2, are now supported with + new 'bayes-train' and 'bayes-query', working and tested, see manual for + details + + moved 'prob-chi2' and 'pob-z' in manual to "Simulation and modelling" group + together with 'bayes-train' and 'bayes-query' + + ATTENTION: + + calling into a context now changes the current run-time context: + + (context 'FOO) + (define (foo) (context)) + (context MAIN) + + (FOO:foo) => MAIN ; old behaviour + + (FOO:foo) => FOO ; new behaviour + + The new behaviour is more intuitive and is what most programmers would expect. + Only applications using 'eval-string' or 'sym' (w/o specifying a context) are + effected. From all apps published by newlisp.org (blog, wiki, ide) only the file + cgi.lsp packaged with these applications is affected and should be changed to + the new cgi.lsp v.1.9 packaged with 8.7.8. + + Users should check all applications using 'eval-string' and 'sym' (or the + deprecated 'symbol'). Pre 8.7.8 'eval-string' and 'sym' work with the runtime- + context beeing MAIN, the context where the program was started. Now both functions + work with the context they are part of: + + (context 'FOO) + (set 'x 999) + (define (foo s) (eval-string s)) + (define (bar s) (eval (sym s))) + (context MAIN) + (set 'x 123) + + (FOO:foo "x") => 123 ; old behaviour + (FOO:bar "x") => 123 ; old behaviour + + (FOO:foo "x") => 999 ; new behaviour + (FOO:bar "x") => 999 ; new behaviour + + Changes to old code: + + (1) Replace all cgi.lsp in newlisp-ide, newlisp-blog and newlisp-wiki apps. + the replacement will also work with newLISP versions previous to 8.7.8. + + (2) Change old apps by preceding the 'eval-string' statement with (context MAIN) + or other required context change. Most of the time it's MAIN, the context where + th whole program was started. + + (3) Change old apps adding explicitly the desired context in 'sym' as a + second parameter, i.e. (sym s 'MAIN) or (sym s ctx) where 'ctx' is a context + variable. + + The new behaviour is more intuitive and will make OO based programming based + on contexts easier, it also increases isoloation of contexts because the current + run-time context is not dependend from where the program was started originally, + but only on the situation internal to that context. + +8.7.9 + added a configure script for compatibility with the popular autoconf/configure + system. An installation of autoconf is not required but the same sequence + of commands as on autoconf systems will work to make newLISP. newLISP's old + ways of making newLISP will also still work: + + ./configure will just try to discover the platform and give a message + make will try to discover the platform and make it + + if make cannot discover the platform it will give a message + + the module/context is now reported in error messages + + 'load' will never cause the runtime context changed, but the same run-time + context that was valid before the call to 'load' will be valid when 'load' + returns + + 'eval-string' now can specify the context under which it's string argument + should be parsed and evaluated. + + 'log' can be specify an additional parameter for a different base than the + default natural log + + fixed a problem with reading very long UTF-8 source string constants + + big speedup of parse with regular expression, now scaling linear + this enables tokenizing big documents in one piece + + args in functions should be evaluated in callers context + (for: sym, context, eval-string) + +8.7.10 + raw string ouput (upper ascii in \nnn codes) in the newLISP commandline shell + return value only when locale is the default "C" locale. + + 'trim' was changing the original string in UTF-8 mode + + 'find', 'replace' and 'search' now do binary in both regex and non-regex modes + searched buffer, key/patterns string and replacement string can all contain + binary 0s + +8.7.11 + 'string' now optimized double fast on string arguments + + getCreateContext() checking symbol protection + + 'load' switches to context MAIN when loading file except if different + context is specified in file, on return 'load' switches back to callers + context (8.7.9) + + 'reset' adds an additional parameter for restarting newLISP with same + command line parameters with fresh memory in a new process space. + + many security improvements for OpenBSD compiles + + 'reset' with optional 'true' (or non 'nil') parameter will restart + newLISP with the same commandline parameters, reloading files etc. + Not available on Win32 (execv() leave the system unstable when compiling + with MinGW. + +8.8.0-p1 pre-release 1 + 'reset' was always exiting on UNIX after the change in 8.7.11 + + text buffers returned in 'net-eval' > 2048 characters and containing zero + characters where throwing a 'string too long error' + +8.8.0-p2 pre-rlease 2 + Many doc corrections + + system symbols in set-nth was broken in 8.7.6 + + self refs in set-nth now safe + + added and changed some cases to qa_dot and qa_comma, now safe again + for memory leak tests. + +8.8.0 released February 20th, 2006 + large file system support for files > 2 GB can now be turned on in newlisp.h + specifying #define LFS. File positions > 2^31 must then be specified as + floats up to 999999999999999.0 for 999 terabyte (TB). 'seek' will always + return a float, file positions should be handled as floats using + add, sub, mul, div instead +,-,*,/ + + Documentation corrections (thanks Ryon, Nigel et al.) + + moved sql.c and types.c into the util directory + + updated newlisp.vim (v1.27) and newlisp.jsf (v.1.9) + + bug fix in cgi.lsp for '=' in key value strings + +8.8.1 + realloc compiler warning fix in nl-filesys.c/readBuffer() + + error-event, net-eval (edited 4/13/20060), signal and timer can now take + a function or lambda expression, previously only a symbol holding a lambda: + (signal 2 exit) + (timer (fn () (println "hello")) 5) + The old syntax still works too. + + Could not compile to a library (also fixed in re-release of 8.8.0) + + code cleanup for allocMemory() + memset() => callocMemory() + + now memory cleanup after exception in functor passed by: + 'filter', 'index', 'net-eval' and 'replace'. + + implicit n-rest and slice on default lists and strings: + (set 'foo:foo '(a s d f g h j)) + (2 foo) => (d f g h j) + (-3 2 foo) => (g h) + + 'save' and 'source' will always serialize from context MAIN perspective + (like 'load') (source reverted back in 8.8.2) + + fixed odd/even problem for 'rand' on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD + +8.8.2 + 'source' reverted back to 8.8.0 behaviour: serialize to current context + +8.8.3 + 'signal' fixed format of internal symbol when passing functions + + suppress saving/sourcing system symbols starting with '$' unless specified + specifically + + new built-in function 'real-path' translates a relative path into an + absolute path. (read-path) same as (real-path ".") returns the current + working directory + +8.8.4 + 'real-path' now also in Win32 + + handle self reference of result of while expression in condition + + allow (sys-info 3) or (sys-info -1) as with 'args' and 'main-args' + + 'dup' will assume 0 for negative values + + when entering multiline expressions/definitions bracketed by [cmd] ... [/cmd] + tags (each on a separate line] and hitting after the closing + [/cmd], newLISP compiled with lib readline support segfaulted, this long standing + bug as finallly been fixed + + in 'xml-parse' when a closing CDATA tag was preceded by a forward slash, then + an extra text element containing part of the closing tag was emmitted, + this is fixed + + support for MySQL v. 5.0 was added with mysql5.lsp + +8.8.5 + 'read-key' now also works on MacOS X + + a bug in the second syntax of 'context' has been fixed now can do: + (push i (context 'CTX "foo")) which now works if CTX:foo is a list + + 'load' now can take http:// (and file://) URL prefixes in filnames to retrieve/load + files via HTTP from remote servers + + 'xml-parse' now can take a context to place symbols/tags from SXML conversion + + zlib.lsp: new module for in memory and .gz compatible file compression + + 'net-eval' idle loop did not pass parameter (broken in 8.8.1) + + fixed a cell leak caused by 'while' self ref handling in 8.8.4 + +8.8.6 + + fix for error reporting of strings, which are too long + + an optional break condition in all looping constructs allows early return: + (for (i from to step condition) ...) + (dotimes (i N condition) ...) + (dolist (i lst conditon) ...) + When condition returns non-nil the loop returns with the value of the condition. + When loop comes to end end the result of the last body expression gets returned. + + describing the effects of non-rectangular matrices in the "Data types" chapter + and for the functions 'multiply', 'invert' and 'transpose'. + + sqlite.lsp vor SQLite v.2.x has been discontinued, use sqlite3.lsp and SQLite3 + + error message was printed for each catch level where error was not caught, + should only be printed on top level if uncatched + + new 'letex': let expression with expansion of let vars into body expressions + before evaluation + + file open for append now atomic + +8.8.7 + new 'clean': + (clean predicate? aList) works like: + (filter (fn (x) (not (predicate? x))) aList) + + "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" did not trigger chunked decoding + when more than one space after the ':' before 'chunked' + + $0 counter did not count first element when in remove mode of + 'replace' + + 'unify' does Prolog like unification with occur-check + (unify '(f (g A) A) '(f B xyz)) => ((B (g xyz)) (A xyz)) + + 'unify' can take additional assoc params list: + (unify '(A (B) X) '(A (A) Z) '((A 1) (Z 4))) + => ((A 1) (Z 4) (B 1) (X 4)) + this is useful when chanining/nesting 'unify' to pass on + a newly bound environment + + new mode in 'expand' with parameter assoc list: + (expand '(a (B (c) (d a B))) '((a 1) (B 2) (c 3) (d 4))) => + (1 (2 (3) (4 1 2))) + + new mode in 'expand' without symbol or assoc list: + (set 'X 2) + (expand '(a ((X)) b)) => (a ((2)) b)) + expands only uppercase variables for use with the new Prolog like + 'unify' function + + added file syntax.cgi for syntax highlighting in HTML of newLISP source + to examples directory + +8.8.8 + eliminates several cell leaks in unify + + 'pop' can be used on strings (pop str [pos] [len]) pos can be negative + 'push' can be used on strings (push str [pos]) pos can be negative + 'push' now will only do list mode when lst is list or nil: + (push new lst) lst has to be list or nil, previous to string mode of push + any existing datatype non-list was initializeed to () now only nil is allowed + + system var $idx contains the offset in dolist: + (dolist (e '(a b c d e)) (println $idx "->" e)) + 0->a + 1->b etc. + + indexing mode of 'args' now works with multiple indices, i.e (args 3 -1) + and is much faster + + implicit indexing syntax now allowed in 'nth-set' and 'set-nth': + (set 'd '(a b c d e f g)) + (nth-set (d 3) 99) => d + d => (a b c 99 e f g) + or with default functor: + (set 'db:db '(a b c d e f g)) + (nth-set (db -1) 99) => g + db:db => (a b c d e f 99) + This also works for strings and arrays + + many fixes/changes/additions in the manual and reference + +8.8.9 + 'net-ping' didn't work on localhost + + 'nth-set/nth-set' bugfix for new feature breaking old + + complete manual pass of the first 3 chapters by Michael - thanks + +8.8.10 + rotate works also on strings + + (cons item lst -1) for consing at the end of the list (undocumented) + + allow 0 length in chunked pages happening on put-url + + give error message for unterminated [text] in interactive console + +8.9.0 Release June 25th + complete pass through Users Manual by Michael Michaels + + example programs in Appendix are now syntax highlighted + + dolist $idx safe for nested loops + + member works for strings + + (starts-with s k true) should behave like the default (starts-with s k) + same with ends-with. This bug never surfaced because nobody specified + anything for the default of case sensitivity + +8.9.1 + (rand x n) returned n+1 after fix in 8.9.0, also looped on n=-1 + + new 'zero?' was broken for floats with fractional parts + + newlisp -c -d and newlisp -c controlled by inetd now understand + simple HTTP GET requests. This feature is mainly intended for use with + (get-url "http://...) and (load "http://...) for retrieving or loading + files from remote newlisp/inetd worker nodes in a distributed computing + environment. + + manual reviewed/edited up to and including the letter C + +8.9.2 + + new (find-all pattern string [func [options]]) finds all regex-patterns in a + string and returns a list of matching strings: + (find-all {\d+} "asdf2kjh44hgfhgf890") + => ("2" "44" "890") + (find-all {(new)(lisp)} "newLISPisNEWLISP" (append $2 $1) 1) + => ("LISPnew" "LISPNEW") + + the parameters in 'format' after the format string can now also be + given in a list: (format "%d %s" '(123 "hello")) + + 'read-key' did not work on SUSE Linux + +8.9.3 + default values in function and macro parameters: (define (foo (a 1) (b 2)) (list a b)) + (foo) => (1 2) + (foo 3) => (3 2) + (foo 3 4) => (3 4) + no performance loss for normal syntax without defaults + + format partly rewritten for better portability, + no tru64.c or ffi required after removing TRU64 for p_format in nl-string.c + +8.9.4 + removed tru64.c and changed makefile_true64 + + starts-with and ends-with can do reguluar expressions and take a regex option number, + the old nil-option for case insensitivity still works and is translated to regex + option = 1, but is deprecated and will be eliminated in the future + + member for strings can take regular expressions, the old case insensitivity option + will not work (member for strings was introduced only recently + + 'symbol' the old writing for 'sym' has been eliminated + + fixed create context bug in newlisp-tk.tcl + + (<< num) works like (<< num 1), (>> num) like (>> num 1), (div num) like (div 1.0 num) + + function 'uuid' for creating Universal Unique IDs type 1 and 4 (RFC 4122) + + -C command option for Emacs forces prompt even if in pipe mode + + manual edits up to letter J, thanks Michael + +8.9.5 + type 4 UUID now closer to RFC 4122 specification + + trying to use set-nth or nth-set on an empty list corrupted the list + +8.9.6 + UUID type 1 got timestamp wrong, UUID 4 always started the same sequence + + +-------------------------- 64 Bit Integers ------------------------------------ + + +8.9.7 + all integer arithmetik 64 bit + + 'factor' now takes integers with max 64 bits and is 4x faster than previously + + 'import', 'pack', still take ints as 32bit, taking the least significant 32 bits + to pack 64bits do: (pack "ldld" int64 (>> int64 32)) for little endian + for big endian do: (pack "ldls" (>> int64 32) int64) + + 'format' has new 64 bit formats "%lld", "%llu" "%llx" for 64bit decimals and + hex numbers on UNIX on Win32 use "%I64d", "%I64u", "%I64x" + + 'format' now also recognises 'e' and 'E' scientific folating point formatting + + 32 bit format strings "%d" "%u" "%x" will truncate on int64 numbers + + in float->int conversions floats out of range are converted to min/max 64 bit int + -9223372036854775808, 9223372036854775807 and 18446744073709551615 for unsigned + + if an int32/uint32 is required by a function int64 values overflow to + min/max 32 bit int -2147483648/2147483647 and 4294967295 for unsignde int + + LFS (large file support) in file operations for files opened with 'open' + now full 64 Bits (before 40 Bits) + + (for (i from to step)...) has float in i, only when optional step value is specified + (sequence from to step) produces float only when optional step value is specified + (dotimes (i N)...) always has integer in i + this is consistend with 'inc' and 'dec' + + net-select now can go to 68 :) years waiting time specifying 64bit higher timeout + values and a timeout of -1 waits forever + + 'net-close' with optional parameter: (net-close sock true) will suppress shutdown() + before closing the socket. In this case net-close will wait for undergoing traffic + to finish + + new function (gcd x y ...) for greatest common deviser of n arguments + + (pow x) defaults to (pow x 2) + + wrong format could segfault (this bug was introduced in 8.9.3) + + when replacing the first element in an association list with 'replace-assoc' and + an error occured when evaluating the replacement expression a segfault occured + (thanks to Ingo for catching this) + + Note that bits shifts <<,>> now work on 64-bit integers too (added 2006-09-12) + +8.9.8 + 'net-eval' now evaluates node parameters, before constants where required + (set 'host "localhost" 'port 4711 'cmd "(+ 3 4)") + (net-eval '((host port cmd)) 1000) = (7) + + 'net-eval' if no timeout specified waits forever + + 'net-eval' short form for one node: (net-eval host port cmd [timeout idle-loop]) + timeout an idle loop are optional: (net-eval host port cmd) + + Similar as for (load "http:// ...) and (get-url "http//..) in 8.9.1; + server mode: newlisp -c with -p or -d, now understands HTTP PUT requests + for saving/writing text files to a newLISP server node on UNIX using: + (save "http://..." ...) and (put-url "http://...") ...) + The server mode together with the beefed up 'net-eval', 'load', 'save' + 'get-url' and 'put-url' assemble a nice toolset for distributed applications + with newLISP. The server node can also be started by inetd or xinetd. + (See manual). Must give full path-file-name in URLs i.e: + (put-url "http://localhost:50001//Myfiles/afile.txt" (read-file "somefile")) + + newLISP server mode with HTTP capabilities in not yet available on Win32. + + target context MAIN is now disabled in 'def-new' and 'new' because it would + cause ambigous situations when copying context vars after fixing a related + bug: def-new and new on context-vars + + on UNIX a shared memory address obtained with 'share' can be unmapped using + (share nil
) + + 'put-url' with "Pragma: append\r\n" in header option appends when talking + to newLISP server + + 'read-file', 'write-file' and 'append-file' accept "http:// ..." and + for HTTP mode and "file://..." for normal file mode. + in HTTP mode they work exactly like 'get-url', 'put-url' and 'put-url' + with "Pragma: append" in the header option. + + new QA file qa-net for testing newLISP server modes with: + net-eval, load, save, read-file, write-file, append-file + + new QA file qa-utf8 to display UTF8 characters, this is not a test for + newLISP but rather the UTF8 display capabilities of the platform running on + +8.9.9 + matrix operations now can be performed on arrays (previously only lists) + matrix operations will return the type (list or arrray) which was given + as input. In case of mixed input (i.e. in multiply), array type is + returned. + + new function 'det' returns the determinant of a square matrix expressed + as a list or array. + + fixed cell leak in define-macro when exercising default values + + 64-bit integers where not displayed correctly in Win32 MinGW + +8.9.10 + 'append', 'first', 'last', 'rest', 'slice' (and implicit slicing) now also + available for arrays + + (timer 'event 0) did not stop on Win32 + + a fix in Curl_base64_decode() for bad base64 strings + + 20% speed up for append on strings and join + +8.9.11 + 'append' did not append correctly to lambda lists, which lost lambda attribute + + 'qa-net' fixed (this file only tests on UNIX) + +8.9.12 + 'int' did a signed instead of unsigned conversion + + 'save' did not save global protected symbols in a way they + could be reloaded + +8.9.13 + 'local' like 'let' but no initialization of locals (all nil): + (local (x b x) body) + + 'swap' has a third syntax pattern to swap the contents of symbols: (swap x y) + +8.9.14 + speedup and memory savings on 'apply' + + fixed INT64->string conversion in sym for True64/WINCC + + error checking on all reallocs() + + changed to realloc() in writeStream() routines + +8.9.15 + (join '(1 2 3)) was hanging, instead of wrong datatype error message + + support "\x41\x42\xff" in string hex format equivalent to "\065\066\255" + + new 'ref-all' returns a list of index vectors for all ref's of an expression + (ref-all 'a '(a b c (d a f (a h a)) (k a (m n a) (x)))) + => ((0) (3 1) (3 3 0) (3 3 2) (4 1) (4 2 2)) + +9.0.0 Release October 15th, 2006 + +9.0.1 + 'read-file' did not read extended http:// mode parameters correctly + + new 'doargs' works like 'dolist' iterates through (args) + (define (foo) (doargs (i) (println i))) + (foo 1 2 3) => prints 1 2 3 + implemented on top of 'dolist' also does $idx and break-expressions + + 'explode' takes extra parameter for # of characters (works on UTF-8 too): + (explode "newlisp" 2) => ("ne" "wl" "is" "p") + + new 'utf8len' length of a string in UTF-8 characters + + new scalar matrix operations (matrix is a 2 dimensional list or array): + (set 'A '((1 2 3) (4 5 6)) + (set 'B A) + (mat + A B) => ((2 4 6) (8 10 12)) + (mat - A B) => ((0 0 0) (0 0 0)) + (mat * A B) => ((1 4 9) (16 25 36)) + (mat / A B) => ((1 1 1) (1 1 1)) + Note that all matrix operations are in floating point + +9.0.2 + explode works on lists: + (explode '(a b c d e)) => '((a) (b) (c) (d) (e)) + (explode '(a b c d e) 2) => '((a b) (c d) (e)) + many structural transformations can be done combining 'explode' and 'transpose' + + fixed cell-leak in 'ref-all' + + in (mat A B) B can be a single number: + (mat + '((1 2 3) (4 5 6)) 2) => ((3 4 5) (6 7 8)) + + some fixes for HTTP mode on UNIX + + HTTP mode now working on Win32 but with some timing issues, + see header of file qa-net for details + +9.0.3 + $idx was broken after 9.0 starting with 1 instead of 0 + +9.0.4 + fixed midnight rollover in 'timer' on Win32 + + new (round ) rounds a number to precision digits + left (positive) or rigt (negative) of the decimal point + + new hyperbolic functions sinh cosh tanh + + fixed push -1 optimization when popping only remaining element in list + + new 'ostype' symbol holds os type string + + new 'delete-url', needs to be enabled on target www server (most aren't) + else => "ERR: server code 405: HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed\r\n" + and must have file permissions set accordingly on target file; + additional parameters like timeout and custom headers are available + exactly as in 'get-url', the feature is also available in: + (delete-file "http://......"), similar to HTTP mode in 'read-file', + 'write-file' and 'append-file' and is also implemented in newlisp + server mode (not working on Win32 newlisp server mode) + + GET queries are now supported in newlisp server mode (not yet Win32) + +9.0.5 + 'and' and 'or' now () when failing and last evaluation was () + + GET and POST cgi now working on UNIX and Win32 (9.0.6) + + new -w commandline switch + useful for changing working directory after newlisp startup: + newlisp -c -d 8080 -w /Users/lutz/ide + this is the same as going into the directory and starting newlisp + newlisp -c -d 8080 + + newlisp can now run as a webserver doing newlisp based CGI. It runs both + newlisp-ide-x.x.tgz and newlisp-wiki-x.x.tgz, to run the ide on the local + machine: + newlisp -c -d 8080 -w /usr/home/www/ide + then in a webbrowser enter the URL http://localhost:8080/ + index.cgi and index.html are looked for by default if no filename is + specified in URL + + httpd example programm has been eliminated, because httpd mode now built-in + into newLISP + + 'file-info' now correctly reports filesizes > 2G (2147483647) bytes + now also can index: (file-info 0) => filesize + + the -x commandlne switch has been disabled, use newlisp server modes instead + + fixed problems with break-condition in dolist/doargs introduced in 9.0.1 + fixed problem when break-condition is the loop symbol itself + +9.0.6 + 'nth' now with similar syntax options as 'net-set/set-nth' + new in 'nth': + (nth (L ...)) + (nth (L )) ; where is a list of indices + new in 'set=nth', 'nth-set' + (set-nth (L ) ) + (nth-set (L ) ) + + 'file-info' now distinguishes in the mode field (12th bit) between links + and normal files: + (define (link? fname) (= 0x2000 (& (file-info fname 1) 0x2000))) + not on Win32, who knows the correct Win32 function for lstat() on MinGW gcc?A + +9.0.7 + HTTP server mode looks for procedure httpd-conf for processing/transforming + the path-file-name of the request. This way security checks, remappings etc + can be performed. In this case a file httpd.conf containing the definition + of httpd-conf can be loaded when starting the server: + newlisp httpd.conf -c -d 8080 -w www/httpddocs + if the file httpd.conf contains: + (define (httpd-conf request) + (if (ends-with request ".exe") "errorpage.html" request)) + now any request for a file which finishes in .exe will be transformed into a + request for errorpage.html containing an error message for the client. + + fixed HTTP server mode crash on LINUX + + fixed 'nth' which failed on old mode when indices where expressions + +9.0.8 + new syntax of 'nth' should work on protected symbols + + new syntax of 'set-nth/nth-set' did not check for index maximum of 16 + + make httpd-conf safe for non-string returns + + server mode now correctly remaps directory paths when performing CGI + in directories not web root, i.e. http://ahost.com:/ide/ will work with CGI, + note that directories need to end with "/" to make the resolve to index.html + or iondex.cgi work correctly + + new -http flag like -c (suppressing prompts) but only allow HTTP commands + no newLISP statements (-c allows both), this is a 'safe' HTTP mode not + allowing 'net-eva' or other commandline protocols. + The following configurations can be used: + + (1) serve HTTP requests only + newlisp -http -d -w + newlisp -http -w # started vi INIX inetd or xinetd + + (2) serve 'net-eval', HTTP and command line without prompt + newlisp -c -d -w + newlisp -c -w # started via UNIX inetd or xinetd + this mode is useful when running newLISP server in a controlled environment + behind a secured firewall in a distributed computing environment where + newLISP server must answer to both: net-eval and HTTP requests. + + Note that on Win32 a \tmp directory must be created on the same drive + which is current for CGI processes for newLISP HTTP mode to work correctly + for CGI processing. On UNIX /tmp is standard. + + fixed 'invert' crash (since v.9.0.2) on not-invertible matrices + + upgraded to better random number generation in 'rand' and 'random' + (not available on Win32) + + fixed (rotate '(1) -1) + +9.0.9 + another fix for 'nth' and protected symbols + + if 'httpd-conf' returns 'nil' nothing will be processed, this can be + used to completely hand off CGI request processing to httpd-conf + +9.0.10 + moved env variable creation of DOCOUMENT_ROOT earlier, so it is available + in httpd-conf.lsp + + added httpd-conf.lspi to the examples directory in the source distribution, + now filters csertain file extensions and does not allow access to files + outside the web directory tree specified with the -w option: + newlisp httpd-conf.lsp -http -d 8080 -w /wwwdocs + or outside the startup directory if no -w is given, also takes care + of request for directories when no trailing '/' is present + + cleaned up nthArray and implicitIndexList/array code + + trying to 'set-nth' and empty list should return the empty list not nil + + more tests in qa-dot and qa-comma for symbol protection and 'nth' + +9.0.11 + rework of whole indexing area, now correctly honors symbol protection in + all modes if symbol is nested inside an expression. The old flat mode: + (nth i j alist) + is much slower, instead use one of the following modes: + (nth (alist i j)) or (alist i j) or (nth (alist aref)) or (alist aref) + ehere aref is a list of nymbers, i.e.: (1 2), same modes in set-nth,nth-set + + reworked nil and empty list detection throughout all files. 'nil' and the + empty list '() are logic false, things work like this: + (map true? '(nil () 0 "")) => (nil nil true true) + (map nil? '(nil () 0 "")) => (true nil nil nil) + (map not '(nil () 0 "")) => (true true nil nil) + (map null? '(nil () 0 "")) => (true true true true) + in v9.0.0: + (true? '()) => true, which was wrong because also + (true? (not '()) => true, which is correct + this affects filter and index usage with true? as predicate, but does not + affect: if, unless, while, until, do-while, do-until, which always worked + correctly assuming '() as logical false + + 'name' also can take contexts i.e.: + (set 'L:L '(a b cd)) (set 'x L) (name x) => "L" + + now when evaluating a context by itself it returns the default symbol + if the default symbol does not exists it gets created: + (set 'foo:foo '(a b c d e f g)) + (foo) => foo:foo + (eval (foo)) => '(a b c d e f g) + this can be used for reference passing: + (define (mysort ctx func) + (sort (eval (ctx)) func)) + (mysort foo >) => (g f e d c b a) + foo:foo => (g f e d c b a) + previously a passed context could only be used for functions using + index lists and implicit indexing as in (nth-set (ctx idx) value) etc. + now functions working on the entire list can be used with reference passed + data. THIS FUNCTIONALITY HAS BEEN DISABLED IN 9.0.14, as a workaround + use (sym (name ctx) ctx) to retrieve the functor + +9.0.12 + the newLISP-tk installer now contains a file md5-checksums.txt with + checksums for newlisp-tk.exe, newlisp.exe and newlisp.dll + + bit not ~ was still on 32 bits now 64 like all integer arithmetik since 9.0 + + all buffer variables moved to size_t and ssize_t type in preparation for + 64-bit model LP64 compile for 64-bit memory addressing. + + get-char, get-int, get-float and get-string failed when using on 64-bit + addresses, which where not truncated correctly on little-endian CPUs. + This affected the mysql.lsp and mysql5.lsp modules when using with newLISP + versions 8.9.7 and later and on Intel CPUs. On Mac PPC and other big-endian + architectures this problem did not occur. All other modules where not affected + on any architecture. + + <,>,<=,>=,= when given only one argument compare agains 0, "" or (), + all other data types return true as before + (< 1) =>nil, (= 0) =>true, (> "abc") => true, (= "") =>true etc. + + 64-bit file poisitioning fixed under Win32 (now runs qa-lfs) + +9.0.13 + fixed problems in the new <,>,<=,>=,= single argument feature + +9.0.14 + further fix in 64-bit ~ function + + a context feature intoduced in 9.0.11 to extract the default functor from an + unknown context has been disabled, instead use the workaround: + (set 'foo:foo '(a b c d e f g)) + (set 'ctx foo) + (sym (name ctx) ctx) => foo:foo + (sort (eval (sym (name ctx) ctx)) >) => (g f e d c b a) + foo:foo => (g f e d c b a) + a more elegant way will be supplied in the future + + both string and list versions of 'explode' now return an empty list if optional + length <= 0 + + 'nt-set/set-nth' did not honor constant protection of default functors + + now compiles for LP64 64-bit memory model on 64-bit LINUX using the makefile: + make -f makefile_linux64LP64 + or simply: + make linux64LP64 + + the old makefile for making a ILP32 32-bit newlisp on 64-bit LINUX has been + renamed: + make -f makefile_linux64ILP32 + or simply: + make linux64ILP32 + + tested on a AMD64 CPU with LINUX 2.6 64-bit Fedora 3 + + enjoy up to 17,179,869,184 gigabytes or 16 exabytes of RAM, on AMD64 + the LP64 compiled version is 12 to 25% faster than the ILP32 version + + avoid sign extension when unpacking signed 32bit into unsigned 32bit displayed + in 64-bit: (unpack "lu" (pack "ld" -1)) => (4294967295) ; not (-1) + + added 'get-long' and "Ld", "Lu" 64-bit packing formats + + new 'parse-date' for parsing date strings (not yet working for Win32) + +9.0.15 + more manual additions and changes, moved all predicates into own group + + fixed dynamic symbols compare + + fixed warnings fo missing -Wno-strict-alasing GCC message on older Solaris + and BSD GCC versions + + fixed parsing of [text] tag on 64-bit compiles + + fixed 'flt' for TRU64 compile + + tried Linux debian package, Ok on Ubuntu, will be included from now on + in newlisp.org releases, but appreciate help in getting it into Ubunto + and Debian for inclusion into their lists + + The Tru64UNIX compile using makefile_tru64 is now a large pointer model LP64 + compile, thanks to Peter for porting and testing on an Alpha CPU + + added makefile_darwin_LP64 for 64-bit compile/link, but cannot test it + on my PPC-G4 (I believe I need a G5 for this) + + fixed 'char' on UTF-8, bug due to 64-bit changes + + LP64 mode for Solaris workng, use makefile_solarisLP64 + + new 'make test' to run qa-dot, qa-net, qa-xml + +9.0.16 + OS/2 compile flavor now part of distribution + + fix for Solaris in some networking routines broken in 9.0.2 ! + + fixed: (dup x -1), which was broken since 9.0.14 + + 'make test' now does qa-dot, qa-xml, qa-setsig, qa-net all one after + another. The qa-setsig script will drop out on Win32 with a message. + + A small change in the 'test-process' routine in the qa-dot script will + cause less failure message for 'process' on slow computers. + + qa-dot now will set to locale "en_US' when testing an UTF-8 version, + this has been done to suppress failure messages for UTF-8 'upper-case' + and 'lower-case' which do not work in the default 'C' locale in + UTF-8 mode on some platforms. + qa-comma always sets to "de_DE" + + 'asinh', 'acosh', 'atanh' complete the triginometric functions + + up to 8 'callback' routines cain be defined to be called by an imported + library, example for Glut lib: + (glutDisplayFunc (callback 0 'draw)) + (glutKeyboardFunc (callback 1 'keyboard)) + (glutMouseFunc (callback 2 'mouse)) + up to four parameters (32-bit ints) are received by the user-defined + callback handlers. See the file newlisp-9.0.16/examples/opengl-demo.lsp + for details. Note that OpenGL passes floating point data, which are only + handled correctly on x86 based platforms. On the Mac PPC this file will + not work (although the callback interface itself does work, but no + drawing will be visible). + +9.0.17 + fixed 'non-blocking' bug for write on Linux, thanks Peter! + + number of maximum cells was not reported correctly in 64-bit newLISP + + 'ref' and 'ref-all' now can take a comparison functor (like 'sort') for + comparison: (ref-all key List func), if no func is specified + assumes = (equal), ref-all now much faster on big lists with many finds. + + 'find' and 'replace' (both in their list forms) can take a comparison + functor like 'sort', 'ref', 'ref-all'. + 'replace' for lists now also processes $0 (old entry) in replacement + expression. + + using replace for lists with 'match' or 'unify' as comparison functor + makes 'replace' as powerful as 'replace for strings with regular expressions. + This is an important new feature with many applications. It also gives + the much overlooked 'match' and 'unify' the more frequent usage they deserve. + + new logic functions 'exists' and 'for-all' apply a condition to each + element in a list and return the result. + + match now will accept atoms in the entry expressions to make it usable + for 'ref' and 'ref-all' + +9.0.18 + fixed a bug in (pop ) + +9.0.19 + (find [