What's new in 2.5?
Yes, the structure is brand new. But what about functionality?
The only item I heard about is the cleanup handler. Nice improvement, even
though optional resume will be still missing :(
I had posted a wish list a couple years ago, most of which doesn't appear to
make its way in. The most important for my programming are:
- local include (make an identifier visible to the including file only)
- Allow PBR in routines, using some easy to spot syntax so that the
possibility for a var to be modified is not unpredictable;
- Negative index tin strings;
- call functions as procedure when they modify their first arg, so that
someMeaningfulLongName=append(someMeaningfulLongName,something)
may become
someMeaningfulLongName=append(_,something)
or
someMeaningfulLongName.append(something)
or
append(someMeaningfulLongName,something)
- Something I had not mentioned before: assume i+3 falls of the valid indexes
of sequence s. The current behaviour is that
if s[i+3]<3 then...
crashes as the bound check fails. But no logical condition holds true when
some of its args doesn't exist. As a result, it would be much simpler to code
if any such test quietly returned false.
Thus, we'd have, whenever x doesn't exist: x<y = x=y = x>y = 0. Not a problem,
as x doesn't exist...
CChris
PS: Rob, did you get my modified get.e file I sent you from an alternate
address?
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