OpenEuphoria

9.6 Version 4.0.0 December 22, 2010

4.0.0 has not yet been released. These changes are available in the latest SVN trunk. 4.0.0 is scheduled to be released on December 22, 2010.

For a concise list of what has changed from 3.1.1 to 4.0.0 final, please see What's new in 4.0? section of this manual.

9.6.1 Deprecation

• with/without warning lists have changed from ( name1, name2 ) to { name1, name2 } as to be more like Euphoria sequences. In the future the old ( name1, name2 ) syntax will be removed.

9.6.2 Possible Breaking Changes

• std/sequence.e/series has changed the functionality of the last parameter. Previously series(1,1,5) would produce {1,2,3,4,5,6}. i.e. 5 was the number of items to add onto the starting 1. The last parameter has been changed to be the number of items in the resulting list. Thus, series(1,1,5) will now produce {1,2,3,4,5}, i.e. a sequence of 5 items. series(1,1,0) before would produce {1}. Now it produces {}, i.e. an empty series.
• ticket:551: WIN32_GUI, WIN32_CONSOLE, EUB_CONSOLE, EUC_CONSOLE have been changed to simply refer to GUI or CONSOLE. On non-Windows platforms, CONSOLE will be defined.

9.6.3 Removed

• creolehtml is no longer shipped with Euphoria. It has been enhanced to support multiple output formats and thus its name has been changed to simply creole. HTML remains the default output. Usage remains the same thus simply renaming build systems to use creole instead of creolehtml will work.

9.6.4 Bug Fixes

• ticket:438, removed path test in demos/santiy.ex as it does not function correctly with bound, translated or even a non-standard eui location and actually cannot, thus it was removed.
• ticket:514, Fixed bug with internal dir implementation that would prevent displaying the content of a directory if given without a trailing slash on Windows.
• ticket:517, Added a bounds check that could cause the translator or binder to crash.
• ticket:518, Prevented write_coverage from being called twice on CTRL+C/error condition.
• ticket:519, preproc and net demos are now in the debian package.
• ticket:530, t_command_line_quote test fixed on Windows.
• ticket:533, Debian package copyright was updated in accordance to Debian policy.
• ticket:540, get_key was described in both io.e and console.e, removed from io.e
• ticket:545, canonical_path did not properly insert the drive letter on Windows when the path began with a forward slash /.
• ticket:548, Fixed error in emitted C in some translated for loops.
• ticket:550, Examples for regex matches and all_matches now properly either supply or use the default from parameter.
• ticket:555, Fixed parsing of constants when first statement is a constant assigned by a built-in function.
• ticket:556, Fixed type inference for return value from rand in translator.
• ticket:557, euphoria.h had gotten out of sync when some OPs were removed.
• ticket:558, Fixed crash caused by undeclared variable assignment by properly subscripting [i] when looking up forward references in the toplevel subroutine
• ticket:560, Functions that started with an unqualified variable from another file being assigned by the return value of an unqualified function from another file could result in a crash.
• ticket:564, Documentation fix on parameter name for calc_hash.
• Fix backend and interpreter to avoid "press any key" prompts when running as a console from a shared console window.
• Ensure forward type checks aren't resolved until after the variable being type checked has been resolved.

9.6.5 Enhancements/Changes

• Made previously private method iscon in std/console.e a public method named has_console which will return TRUE/FALSE if the current application has a console window attached.
• cmd_parse now splits onto two lines an option whose command is longer than the maximum pad size and its description.
• PDF documentation is now much better, generated from LaTeX sources.
• Bundled creole program supports multiple output formats now, the addition of LaTeX for great printed or PDF documentation from your creole sources.
• Bundled utility bench.ex now outputs timing information to STDERR by default. --stdout can be supplied if output to STDOUT is desired. It now also displays the min and max iteration times in addition to the already average and total.
• demo/net/pastey.ex demo has been updated to function with OpenEuphoria's pastey service. It can also now accept file input via stdin.
• -version on main products now reports build date in addition to previous information.
• euphoria/info.e version methods version_string and version_string_long now have the ability to report the enhanced version information.
• Optimized for loops to check for integer initial value and limits.