Just a quick question. What are some sample projects that use Nemerle? I've never heard of it....
--- Michal Moskal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hip! Hip! Nemerle 0.3.0 is out there in the wild. > > This is the long awaited second milestone release (after 0.2.0 -- CLS > consumer) with a new typing engine and a new parser. > > Nemerle is a high-level statically-typed programming language for the > .NET platform. It offers functional, object-oriented and imperative > features. It has a simple C#-like syntax and a powerful meta-programming > system. > > Features that come from the functional land are variants, pattern matching > and type inference and parameter polymorphism (aka generics). Meta-system > allows great compiler extensibility, embedding domain specific languages, > partial evaluation and aspect-oriented programming. > > The source tarball can be downloaded from: > > http://nemerle.org/download/nemerle-0.3.0.tar.gz > > and: > > http://nemerle.org/download/nemerle-0.3.0.tar.bz2 > > MSI, DEB and RPM packages (as well as the source tarball of course) > as usual from: > > http://nemerle.org/download.html > > The binary packages may have a small lag to the source release. > > New features in this release include (from the NEWS file). This list can > be also found nicely htmlized in a blog post: > > http://nemerle.org/blog/archive/2005/Mar-31.html > > 0.3.0, Apr 29 2005 > About 300 svn commits has been made since the last release. > > Additions: > * The most important addition in this release are implicit conversions > of several kinds. > - We now respect user-defined op_Implicit (like the ones for > Decimal type) > - Functional values are implicitly converted to delegates. > - when (...) 3; now gives a warning instead of error (about using > implicit object->void conversion). > - Last but not least, conversions are provided for built-in numeric > types like int and long. They work much like in C#. Here is > a picture about that: > http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Language/TypeConversionsInCSharpRVS.asp > This also works in a kinda special way for literals. There might be > some related bugs with constant folding though. > * From the cute new features departments -- it is now possible to use > pattern matching on properties, in addition to previous possibility > of matching on fields. > * Another nice addition are the P/Invoke methods. > * The interactive interpreter -- nemerlish -- has been included in the > default build and install. > * Indentation engine in the emacs mode has been improved. > * 'is' can be now used where 'matches' was. 'matches' shall be > considered obsolete by now. It will give a warning in the next > release. > There is one drawback with this change. If you have been using > a polymorphic variant (like x is Some) on the right hand side of > 'matches' it won't work anymore. You either need to supply the type > argument (x is Some [int]), you can use wildcard type (x is Some > [_]), or make it a valid non-identifier pattern (x is Some (_), > x is None ()). > For the particular Some/None you can use freshly added > IsSome/IsNone properties. > > Incompatible changes: > * The arithmetic operators on types smaller than int now return int. > This is the same behavior as in C (and C#). > * Various matching optimization flags have been removed (they now > print a warning). Boolean optimizations are now always enabled, > while the other were buggy. Patches are welcome. > * Progress bar is now disabled by default. You -bar+ switch to turn > it on (we found people very often disable it, and it confuses > emacs). > > Library: > * List manipulation functions have been added to the list type itself. > > Bugfixes: > * The MSI package now properly installs itself in the directory > specified, not always in "c:/Program Files/Nemerle/". > > Fixed bugs from our bugtracker ( http://nemerle.org/bugs/ ) > * #007: Static variable initalization in metadata > * #119: subtyping relation for numeric types > * #138: matching on properties > * #249: functions are not "boxed" to delegates > * #256: Should we implicitly convert from DateTime to SqlDateTime > * #284: a=b-1U; does not parse > * #316: Allow PInvoke methods > * #334: Custom operators are not looked up properly > * #343: Algorithm for binding base classes is broken > * #360: Inference engine loops compiler when parameter is used on > itself as function > * #364: support ++/-- overloads > * #383: Assigning to variable with name of type > * #390: Problems with the $-notation > * #391: Explicit cast operator is not chosen when needed > * #393: Using nested foreach crashes compiler. > * #394: We do not check attribute targets > * #395: Another meaningless error message > * #396: ncc crashes during typing of foreach loop on N.C.Hashtable > * #397: ICE when fixing type of local function > * #398: return type is not checked in delayed overloads > * #399: comparing with == against null shall not be special > * #400: strange problem with delayed typings and overload resolution > * #402: cannot use _ in keywords > * #404: $ "$Name" doesn't work -- usesite problems > * #406: Something is broken with expected return types > * #407: Lambdas from embedded expressions crashes compiler > * #414: comparing ,,result'' of mutable definition to null causes ICE > * #418: Literal fields should be available in match patterns > * #420: Nested types are not visible in derived class > * #421: Add implicit conversion from 0 to any enum > * #424: merge the literals branch > * #431: Change 'matches' to 'is' > * #432: ice with foo(){| _ => {}} > > > -- > Michal Moskal, > http://nemerle.org/~malekith/ > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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