OpenEuphoria

9.17 Version 2.4 Beta April 10, 2003

This release updates the Euphoria Interpreter, the Euphoria To C Translator, and the Interpreter Source Code products, for Windows, DOS, Linux and FreeBSD.

9.17.1 New Features

• bind and shroud now have an option -out for specifying the output file, so you won't be prompted for it. Thanks to Jonas Temple, Rusty Davis and others.

• bind and shroud now have an option -quiet that suppresses normal messages and statistics, and therefore eliminates the window that normally pops up. Only errors are reported. Thanks to Jonas Temple.

• The namespace error message that's issued when you refer to a global symbol that's defined in two or more files, now gives you a list of all the files where that symbol has been defined. Thanks to Derek Parnell and Irv Mullins.

• Translator: In many cases, the C code generated for remainder(), integer multiplication, and compare() is smaller and faster.

• exw, ecw -wat: Deallocation of space for huge numbers of small objects (atoms or small sequences) is much faster than in 2.4 alpha. Thanks to Andy Serpa. (Note that allocation of huge numbers of small objects in exw, or ecw -wat, became much faster in 2.4 alpha, and remains much faster.)

• When an ex.err file is created, any warnings issued against the program will be listed at the end of the ex.err file. Thanks to Al Getz.

• The file name is now included in the warning message that you get for some of the common warnings (variable not used, variable not assigned to). Thanks to Al Getz.

• New Icon: On Windows, Euphoria include files are now labelled with a gray-scale version of the Euphoria E) icon. This lets you easily distinguish the executable Euphoria files from the include files. Thanks to Wolfgang Fritz.

• Out-of-bounds floating-point subscript values were being reported after rounding down to an integer. Now the value before rounding is reported.

• Euphoria Database System (EDS): db_rename_table() now checks to see if the target table name already exists, before it renames a table. Thanks to Mike Nelson.

• The first value returned by rand() (in the absence of set_rand()) is now more "random". Thanks to Yuku Sugianto.

9.17.2 Bug Fixes

• bug fixed: Due to a change made in 2.4 alpha, the dir() routine for Borland and Lcc was concatenating the file attributes characters (if any) to the file name field. Thanks to Dr. Juan R. Herguijuela.

• bug fixed: No error message was issued when ',' was followed immediately by ')' in a routine's parameter declaration list. Thanks to Brage Moris.

• bug fixed: Huge positive out-of-bounds subscripts (over 2 billion) were reported as huge negative values.

• bug fixed: repeat(0, size), where size was a huge positive floating-point number, incorrectly reported: "repetition count must not be negative". Now it reports: "repetition count is too large". Thanks to Martin Stachon.

• bug fixed: machine_proc(x, 5), where x was a huge floating-point number, incorrectly reported: "an integer was expected, not a sequence". Now it reports: "The first argument to machine_proc/func must be a small positive integer". Thanks to Martin Stachon.