Author: pmichaud
Date: Sun Dec 14 07:59:34 2008
New Revision: 33883
Modified:
trunk/NEWS
Log:
[docs] NEWS updates for December 2008 release.
Modified: trunk/NEWS
==============================================================================
--- trunk/NEWS (original)
+++ trunk/NEWS Sun Dec 14 07:59:34 2008
@@ -1,11 +1,21 @@
# $Id$
New in December 2008 Release
+- Implementation
+ + fixed lexical semantics
+ + added the 'capture_lex' opcode
- Compilers
+ IMCC
- removed undocumented .param int <stringc> => <ident> syntax
- .line directive now only takes an integer argument
- new .file directive to specify the file name being compiled
+ + PCT
+ - properly handles lexical generation and closure semantics
+ - uses :subid instead of name lookups to reference PAST::Block nodes
+ - added PAST::Control node type (exception handlers)
+ + PGE
+ - add support for <?{{...}}> and <!{{...}}> assertions
+ - Match objects use Capture PMC instead of Capture_PIR
+ PIRC
- add macro handling to PASM mode
- disable vanilla register allocation in PASM mode, but do allow
optimization
@@ -13,14 +23,16 @@
- first bits of bytecode generation. No sub calling/returning yet.
- Languages
+ Rakudo
+ - fixed lexical handling and recursion
- refactored subtypes implementation
- support for quotes with multi-character delimiters
- - implemented list slices
+ - implemented list slices (Positional role)
- list assignment
- reduction meta operators
- hyper meta operators
- cross meta operators
- more builtin functions
+ - added Nil type
- basic support for protos
- iterator on filehandle objects
+ Lua
@@ -38,6 +50,7 @@
- .yield (in .begin/end_yield) is now .set_yield
- .return (in .begin/end_return) is now .set_return
- .namespace x / .endnamespace x syntax is removed
+ + Capture_PIR (runtime/parrot/library/Parrot/Capture_PIR.pir)
New in 0.8.1
- Implementation
