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diff --git a/web/news.txt b/web/news.txt index f7a9d05fa..b956386fb 100644 --- a/web/news.txt +++ b/web/news.txt @@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ News -2014-XX-XX Version 0.9.4 released +2014-04-21 Version 0.9.4 released ================================= The Nimrod development community is proud to announce the release of version -0.9.4 of the Nimrod compiler and tools. +0.9.4 of the Nimrod compiler and tools. **Note: This release has to be +considered beta quality! Lots of new features have been implemented but most +do not fullfill our quality standards.** This release includes about 1300 changes in total including various bug fixes, new languages features and standard library additions and improvements. @@ -63,6 +65,16 @@ capabilities. Note that this feature has been implemented with Nimrod's macro system and so ``await`` and ``async`` are no keywords. +Syntactic sugar for anonymous procedures has also been introduced. It too has +been implemented as a macro. The following shows some simple usage of the new +syntax: + +.. code-block::nimrod + import future + + var s = @[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] + echo(s.map((x: int) => x * 5)) + Library Additions ----------------- @@ -77,6 +89,9 @@ Library Additions - Added module ``selectors``. - Added module ``asynchttpserver``. - Added support for the new asynchronous IO in the ``httpclient`` module. +- Added a Python-inspired ``future`` module that feature upcoming additions + to the ``system`` module. + Changes affecting backwards compatibility ----------------------------------------- @@ -125,6 +140,7 @@ Compiler Additions - Arrays can be annotated to be ``unchecked`` for easier low level manipulations of memory. - Support for the new Babel package manager. +- Added support for builtin ``spawn`` for easy thread pool usage. Language Additions |