[Announce] New STklos release

From: Erick Gallesio <eg_at_essi.fr>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:10:45 +0200

This is an announce for the 0.52 (aka "No I'm not dead") release of STklos.

New in this release:
        * Compiler has been rewritten and deliver code which is more
          efficient
        * New command 'compile-file' to compile a stklos file to byte-codes
        * Complete rewriting of GTklos (support of GTK+ in STklos)
          - the rewriting is still incomplete and needs some work
          - support of the Canvas widget (nearly completely finished)
          - more general event management
        * All the demos have been rewritten
        * Better error reporting
        * Errors can now be browsed with Emacs next-error previous-error
        * Added support for SRFI-2
        * Added support for SRFI-4
        * Added support for SRFI-8
        * Added support for SRFI-9
        * Added support for SRFI-22
        * new option: "--no-init-file"
        * Added bitwise operations on bignums
        * Virtual slots can now have an initial value
        * New primitives: KEY-DELETE!, KEY-DELETE, PROGRAM-NAME,
          PORT-FILE-NAME, FULL-CURRENT-TIME, SECONDS->DATE
        * Added the Bigloo MATCH-CASE and MATCH-LAMBDA
        * New form PARSE-ARGUMENTS to simplify argument parsing
        * Better support of dynamic loading.
        * Minimal support of LDAP.
        * Support of active-slots (as in old STk)
        * PCRE package used is now 3.7
        * GC package used is now 6.0
        * More documentation
        * There are now man pages for stklos and utilities
        * Many small improvements
        * Bug corrections
        * ...


Download: See http://kaolin.unice.fr/STklos/


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