New alphas up with bug-fixes and features
Brian Rice
water at tunes.org
Tue Dec 21 11:34:30 PST 2004
Lee has added an interactive mode for the Parser to support the new
console work done by Attila. This can be activated for now at the REPL
via "interactiveMode.". Once you have this enabled, pressing return
will cause whatever expression is there to be evaluated, without the
need for the stop (the period). This however means that multi-line text
will parse differently! So beware when pasting text from source code
files or editor windows. If you need to return to this original mode,
for now there is the "pasteMode" message to enter to switch back. This
parser change is bootstrapped into the alpha images.
There is also a fix for caseOf:otherwise: where an empty array element
for the case Associations created a hidden Nil case. Since this is
implemented with a VM bytecode for fast conditional jumps, it required
a VM change which is now also in alpha.
There are yet more changes to come, but this should last for a good one
or two days. ;)
--
Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
http://tunes.org/~water/
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