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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