[slang-users] slang2 pre-release snapshot 4 available

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A a new development snapshot of slang2 is available:

  <ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/slang/2.0-devel/slang-pre2-r4.tar.gz>

Unless a major problem is encountered, this will be the last
development release.  I plan to officially release slang 2 at the end
of the month.

Changes since 2.0.0 pre-release 3
1. New intrinsics: array_swap, array_reverse
2. src/slrline.c:SLrline_open: If the display width argument is 0, set
   it to 80.
3. sldisply.c: Initialize SLtt_Screen_Cols/Rows to (80,24) instead of
   (0,0).
4. src/slparse.c: Expressions such as &s.foo and &s[0] are flagged as
   unsupported at parse time.
5. src/slimport.c: A module may now be imported into more than one
   namespace.  See modules/README if you are a module writer.
6. slsh/Makefile.in, modules/Makefile.in: Made changes so that
   nothing gets compiled during the install step.
7. src/slimport.c: If "import" is called without a namespace argument,
   the current namespace will be used.  If the current namespace is
   anonymous, the global namespace will be used.
8. slsh/lib/require.sl:  The provide/require functions have been
   changed to take a namespace argument.
9. doc/tm/slang.tm: Added section on operator overloading for
   user-defined types.
10. doc/tm/tools/fixtxt: a jed-script to repair the text files
    generated by the linuxdoc sgml2txt program.
11. doc/tm/slang.tm: Corrected some typos spotted by Doug Burke.
12. src/mkfiles/makefile.all: DOS/Windows: The response file was not
    being properly generated (SANGOI DINO (SANGOID at lloydadriatico, it)
13. src/slang.c: The autoload function may be used to load a file into
    a namespace. (Based upon an idea from Jörg Sommer (joerg at alea,
    gnuu, de)
14. src/slstring.c: New hash function (from Bob Jenkins-- see 
    See http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/evahash.html)
15. src/slassoc.c: rewritten to use double hashing.


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