Re: Confirmation for 2.3
- Posted by rossboyd at ihug.com.au Aug 16, 2001
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Thankyou for your suggestion. I'll know where to go in future. > You might do a search on the RDS site > for such things. > > Robert has talked about this atleast 10 times. > > BTW, your assumption is mostly correct. > > Euman > euman at bellsouth.net > > > > > > > > Can you very briefly tell us what you *are* > > > > adding/changing in version 2.3? > > > > > > Well, briefly: > > > > > > - source code availability. This requires a fair bit of work on my > > part > > > to make the code ready, especially for non-WATCOM compilers. > > > - namespace enhancement > > > - 2-pass binder removes all unused routines, vars, constants > > > and provides various improvements > > > - trace(3) logs statements to a file > > > - several small bug fixes > > > - dozens of small but very useful improvements. > > > If I take time to type them all in, I'll have to drop one. > > > > > > I was hoping for the unused routine,var,constant remover. Excellent! > > > > Source code availability - now that's exciting! > > I assume you'll keep your 'blood sweat and tears' proprietary code in > > .obj/.lib form > > while allowing users to extend the language syntax and functions. > > > > Thankyou Robert for the info. Much appreciated! > > > > Ross Boyd > > > > > >