[svn:parrot] r36685 - trunk
kjs at svn.parrot.org
kjs at svn.parrot.org
Fri Feb 13 20:41:37 UTC 2009
Author: kjs
Date: Fri Feb 13 20:41:36 2009
New Revision: 36685
URL: https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/changeset/36685
Log:
[NEWS] update various NEWS items. More to come! (and is this too detailed?)
Modified:
trunk/NEWS
Modified: trunk/NEWS
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--- trunk/NEWS Fri Feb 13 20:39:24 2009 (r36684)
+++ trunk/NEWS Fri Feb 13 20:41:36 2009 (r36685)
@@ -2,7 +2,33 @@
New in February 2009 release
+- Implementation
+ + Support for portable 'Inf' and 'NaN'
+ + pbc_disassemble prints constants in constants table
+ + Removed (incomplete) Bignum implementation
+ + Pair is now a dynamic loadable PMC
+- Documentation
+ + Book
+ - updates to Chapter 2 (getting started)
+ - updates to Chapter 3 (PIR basics)
+ - updates to Chapter 4 (PIR subroutines)
+ - updates to Chapter 10 (HLLs)
+ - updates to Chapter 12 (opcodes)
+ + Function documentation
+ + Pod documentation style modernized; no longer Perl 5 style.
+ + PMC has an additional acronym: Poly Morphic Container
+ + The DOD (Dead Object Detection) acronym is no longer used;
+ use 'GC' to refer to the Garbage Collector component.
+- Compilers
+ + IMCC
+ - :named flag can now take string registers as argument
+ - A single '=cut' directive is now ignored (without initial Pod directive)
+ - :vtable subs now have proper access to 'self' pseudo variable
- Languages
+ + add new 'Pod' documentation parser
+ + ECMAScript
+ + add 'quit', 'readline' builtins
+ + fix 'Boolean' type and 'print' builtin
+ Lua
- left the nest and is now at http://github.com/fperrad/lua/
+ Rakudo
@@ -12,9 +38,15 @@
+ removed Zcode implementation
- Deprecations
+ Parrot_readbc, Parrot_loadbc renamed to Parrot_pbc_read, Parrot_pbc_load.
+ + .HLL_map directive in favour of 'hll_map' method on Parrot interpreter
- Tools
+ pbc_disassemble options added
+ pbc_dump renamed from pdump
+- Miscellaneous
+ + Parrot is now Copyright Parrot Foundation
+ + Parrot's SVN repository is now hosted at https://svn.parrot.org
+ + Various code cleanups and bug fixes
+
New in January 2009 release (0.9.0)
- Implementation
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