==== News ==== 2015-10-16 First Nim conference =============================== .. raw::html First Nim conference in Ukraine! This Autumn you have the unique opportunity to take part in the first Nim event held in Kyiv and to meet the creator of the Nim programming language - Andreas Rumpf. The event is hosted by Zeo Alliance and is taking place between 14-15 November 2015 in Kyiv, Ukraine. During the workshop you will learn: - The basics of the language including its safe and unsafe subsets. - How to use Nim to develop web applications. - How Nim's meta programming capabilities make Nim the ultimate glue language, excellent at interoperability with C++, JavaScript, Java and others. - Games in Nim and the ability to rapidly prototype without sacrificing speed. Registration is free, but the number of places is limited. More details can be found `here `_. .. 2015-xx-xx Version 0.11.4 released ================================== Changes affecting backwards compatibility ----------------------------------------- - ``tables.[]``, ``strtabs.[]``, ``critbits.[]`` **now raise** the ``KeyError`` **exception when the key does not exist**! Use the new ``getOrDefault`` instead to get the old behaviour. Compile all your code with ``-d:nimTableGet`` to get a listing of where your code uses ``[]``! - The ``rawsockets`` module has been renamed to ``nativesockets`` to avoid confusion with TCP/IP raw sockets, so ``newNativeSocket`` should be used instead of ``newRawSocket``. - The ``miliseconds`` property of ``times.TimeInterval`` is now ``milliseconds``. Code accessing that property is deprecated and code using ``miliseconds`` during object initialization or as a named parameter of ``initInterval()`` will need to be updated. - ``std.logging`` functions no longer do formatting and semantically treat their arguments just like ``echo`` does. Affected functions: ``log``, ``debug``, ``info``, ``warn``, ``error``, ``fatal``. Custom subtypes of ``Logger`` also need to be adjusted accordingly. - Floating point numbers can now look like ``2d`` (float64) and ``2f`` (float32) which means imports like ``import scene/2d/sprite`` do not work anymore. Instead quotes have to be used: ``import "scene/2d/sprite"``. The former code never was valid Nim. - The Windows API wrapper (``windows.nim``) is now not part of the official distribution anymore. Instead use the ``oldwinapi`` Nimble package. - There is now a clear distinction between ``--os:standalone`` and ``--gc:none``. So if you use ``--os:standalone`` ensure you also use ``--gc:none``. ``--os:standalone`` without ``--gc:none`` is now a version that doesn't depend on any OS but includes the GC. However this version is currently untested! - All procedures which construct a ``Socket``/``AsyncSocket`` now need to specify the socket domain, type and protocol. The param name ``typ: SockType`` (in ``newSocket``/``newAsyncSocket`` procs) was also renamed to ``sockType``. The param ``af`` in the ``connect`` procs was removed. This affects ``asyncnet``, ``asyncdispatch``, ``net``, and ``rawsockets``. - ``varargs[typed]`` and ``varargs[untyped]`` have been refined and now work as expected. However ``varargs[untyped]`` is not an alias anymore for ``varargs[expr]``. So if your code breaks for ``varargs[untyped]``, use ``varargs[expr]`` instead. The same applies to ``varargs[typed]`` vs ``varargs[stmt]``. - ``sequtils.delete`` doesn't take confusing default arguments anymore. - ``system.free`` was an error-prone alias to ``system.dealloc`` and has been removed. - ``macros.high`` never worked and the manual says ``high`` cannot be overloaded, so we removed it with no deprecation cycle. - To use the ``parallel`` statement you now have to use the ``--experimental`` mode. - Toplevel procs of calling convention ``closure`` never worked reliably and are now deprecated and will be removed from the language. Instead you have to insert type conversions like ``(proc (a, b: int) {.closure.})(myToplevelProc)`` if necessary. - The modules ``libffi``, ``sdl``, ``windows``, ``zipfiles``, ``libzip``, ``zlib``, ``zzip``, ``dialogs``, ``expat``, ``graphics``, ``libcurl``, ``sphinx`` have been moved out of the stdlib and are Nimble packages now. - The constant fights between 32 and 64 bit DLLs on Windows have been put to an end: The standard distribution now ships with 32 and 64 bit versions of all the DLLs the standard library needs. This means that the following DLLs are now split into 32 and 64 versions: * ``pcre.dll``: Split into ``pcre32.dll`` and ``pcre64.dll``. * ``pdcurses.dll``: Split into ``pdcurses32.dll`` and ``pdcurses64.dll``. * ``sqlite3.dll``: Split into ``sqlite3_32.dll`` and ``sqlite3_64.dll``. * ``ssleay32.dll``: Split into ``ssleay32.dll`` and ``ssleay64.dll``. * ``libeay32.dll``: Split into ``libeay32.dll`` and ``libeay64.dll``. Compile with ``-d:nimOldDLLs`` to make the stdlib use the old DLL names. - Nim VM now treats objects as ``nkObjConstr`` nodes, and not ``nkPar`` nodes as it was previously. Macros that generate ``nkPar`` nodes when object is expected are likely to break. Macros that expect ``nkPar`` nodes to which objects are passed are likely to break as well. - Base methods now need to be annotated with the ``base`` pragma. This makes multi methods less error-prone to use with the effect system. - Nim's parser directive ``#!`` is now ``#?`` in order to produce no conflicts with Unix's ``#!``. - An implicit return type for an iterator is now deprecated. Use ``auto`` if you want more type inference. - The type ``auto`` is now a "multi-bind" metatype, so the following compiles: .. code-block:: nim proc f(x, y: auto): auto = result = $x & y echo f(0, "abc") - The ``ftpclient`` module is now deprecated in favour of the ``asyncftpclient`` module. - In sequtils.nim renamed ``repeat`` function to ``cycle`` (concatenating a sequence by itself the given times), and also introduced ``repeat``, which repeats an element the given times. - The function ``map`` is moved to sequtils.nim. The inplace ``map`` version is renamed to ``apply``. - The template ``mapIt`` now doesn't require the result's type parameter. Also the inplace ``mapIt`` is renamed to ``apply``. Library Additions ----------------- - The nre module has been added, providing a better interface to PCRE than re. - The ``expandSymlink`` proc has been added to the ``os`` module. - The ``tailDir`` proc has been added to the ``os`` module. - Define ``nimPinToCpu`` to make the ``threadpool`` use explicit thread affinities. This can speed up or slow down the thread pool; it's up to you to benchmark it. - ``strutils.formatFloat`` and ``formatBiggestFloat`` do not depend on the C locale anymore and now take an optional ``decimalSep = '.'`` parameter. - Added ``unicode.lastRune``, ``unicode.graphemeLen``. Compiler Additions ------------------ - The compiler now supports a new configuration system based on `NimScript `_. - The compiler finally considers symbol binding rules in templates and generics for overloaded ``[]``, ``[]=``, ``{}``, ``{}=`` operators (issue `#2599 `_). - The compiler now supports a `bitsize pragma `_ for constructing bitfields. - Added a new ``--reportConceptFailures`` switch for better debugging of concept related type mismatches. This can also be used to debug ``system.compiles`` failures. Language Additions ------------------ - ``system.unsafeAddr`` can be used to access the address of a ``let`` variable or parameter for C interoperability. Since technically this makes parameters and ``let`` variables mutable, it is considered even more unsafe than the ordinary ``addr`` builtin. - Added ``macros.getImpl`` that can be used to access the implementation of a routine or a constant. This allows for example for user-defined inlining of function calls. - Tuple unpacking finally works in a non-var/let context: ``(x, y) = f()`` is allowed. Note that this doesn't declare ``x`` and ``y`` variables, for this ``let (x, y) = f()`` still needs to be used. - ``when nimvm`` can now be used for compiletime versions of some code sections. Click `here `_ for details. - Usage of the type ``NimNode`` in a proc now implicitly annotates the proc with ``.compileTime``. This means generics work much better for ``NimNode``. Bugfixes -------- - Fixed "Compiler internal error on iterator it(T: typedesc[Base]) called with it(Child), where Child = object of Base" (`#2662 `_) - Fixed "repr() misses base object field in 2nd level derived object" (`#2749 `_) - Fixed "nimsuggest doesn't work more than once on the non-main file" (`#2694 `_) - Fixed "JS Codegen. Passing arguments by var in certain cases leads to invalid JS." (`#2798 `_) - Fixed ""check" proc in unittest.nim prevents the propagation of changes to var parameters." (`#964 `_) - Fixed "Excessive letters in integer literals are not an error" (`#2523 `_) - Fixed "Unicode dashes as "lisp'ish" alternative to hump and snake notation" (`#2811 `_) - Fixed "Bad error message when trying to construct an object incorrectly" (`#2584 `_) - Fixed "Determination of GC safety of globals is broken " (`#2854 `_) - Fixed "v2 gc crashes compiler" (`#2687 `_) - Fixed "Compile error using object in const array" (`#2774 `_) - Fixed "httpclient async requests with method httpPOST isn't sending Content-Length header" (`#2884 `_) - Fixed "Streams module not working with JS backend" (`#2148 `_) - Fixed "Sign of certain short constants is wrong" (`#1179 `_) - Fixed "Symlinks to directories reported as symlinks to files" (`#1985 `_) - Fixed "64-bit literals broken on x86" (`#2909 `_) - Fixed "import broken for certain names" (`#2904 `_) - Fixed "Invalid UTF-8 strings in JavaScript" (`#2917 `_) - Fixed "[JS][Codegen] Initialising object doesn't create unmentioned fields." (`#2617 `_) - Fixed "Table returned from proc computed at compile time is missing keys:" (`#2297 `_) - Fixed "Clarify copyright status for some files" (`#2949 `_) - Fixed "math.nim: trigonometry: radians to degrees conversion" (`#2881 `_) - Fixed "xoring unsigned integers yields RangeError in certain conditions" (`#2979 `_) - Fixed "Directly checking equality between procs" (`#2985 `_) - Fixed "Compiler crashed, but there have to be meaningful error message" (`#2974 `_) - Fixed "repr is broken" (`#2992 `_) - Fixed "Ipv6 devel - add IPv6 support for asyncsockets, make AF_INET6 a default" (`#2976 `_) - Fixed "Compilation broken on windows" (`#2996 `_) - Fixed "'u64 literal conversion compiler error" (`#2731 `_) - Fixed "Importing 'impure' libraries while using threads causes segfaults" (`#2672 `_) - Fixed "Uncatched exception in async procedure on raise statement" (`#3014 `_) - Fixed "nim doc2 fails in Mac OS X due to system.nim (possibly related to #1898)" (`#3005 `_) - Fixed "IndexError when rebuilding Nim on iteration 2" (`#3018 `_) - Fixed "Assigning large const set to variable looses some information" (`#2880 `_) - Fixed "Inconsistent generics behavior" (`#3022 `_) - Fixed "Compiler breaks on float64 division" (`#3028 `_) - Fixed "Confusing error message comparing string to nil " (`#2935 `_) - Fixed "convert 64bit number to float on 32bit" (`#1463 `_) - Fixed "Type redefinition and construction will break nim check" (`#3032 `_) - Fixed "XmlParser fails on very large XML files without new lines" (`#2429 `_) - Fixed "Error parsing arguments with whitespaces" (`#2874 `_) - Fixed "Crash when missing one arg and used a named arg" (`#2993 `_) - Fixed "Wrong number of arguments in assert will break nim check" (`#3044 `_) - Fixed "Wrong const definition will break nim check" (`#3041 `_) - Fixed "Wrong set declaration will break nim check" (`#3040 `_) - Fixed "Compiler segfault (type section)" (`#2540 `_) - Fixed "Segmentation fault when compiling this code" (`#3038 `_) - Fixed "Kill nim i" (`#2633 `_) - Fixed "Nim check will break on wrong array declaration" (`#3048 `_) - Fixed "boolVal seems to be broken" (`#3046 `_) - Fixed "Nim check crashes on wrong set/array declaration inside ref object" (`#3062 `_) - Fixed "Nim check crashes on incorrect generic arg definition" (`#3051 `_) - Fixed "Nim check crashes on iterating nonexistent var" (`#3053 `_) - Fixed "Nim check crashes on wrong param set declaration + iteration" (`#3054 `_) - Fixed "Wrong sharing of static_t instantations" (`#3112 `_) - Fixed "Automatically generated proc conflicts with user-defined proc when .exportc.'ed" (`#3134 `_) - Fixed "getTypeInfo call crashes nim" (`#3099 `_) - Fixed "Array ptr dereference" (`#2963 `_) - Fixed "Internal error when `repr`-ing a type directly" (`#3079 `_) - Fixed "unknown type name 'TNimType' after importing typeinfo module" (`#2841 `_) - Fixed "Can export a template twice and from inside a block" (`#1738 `_) - Fixed "C Codegen: C Types are defined after their usage in certain cases" (`#2823 `_) - Fixed "s.high refers to the current seq instead of the old one" (`#1832 `_) - Fixed "Error while unmarshaling null values" (`#3149 `_) - Fixed "Inference of `static[T]` in sequences" (`#3144 `_) - Fixed "Argument named "closure" to proc inside template interfere with closure pragma" (`#3171 `_) - Fixed "Internal error with aliasing inside template" (`#3158 `_) - Fixed "Cardinality of sets prints unexpected value" (`#3135 `_) - Fixed "Nim crashes on const assignment from function returning var ref object" (`#3103 `_) - Fixed "`repr` cstring" (`#3080 `_) - Fixed "Nim check crashes on wrong enum declaration" (`#3052 `_) - Fixed "Compiler assertion when evaluating template with static[T]" (`#1858 `_) - Fixed "Erroneous overflow in iterators when compiler built with overflowChecks enabled" (`#3140 `_) - Fixed "Unicode dashes as "lisp'ish" alternative to hump and snake notation" (`#2811 `_) - Fixed "Calling discardable proc from a defer is an error." (`#3185 `_) - Fixed "Defer statement at the end of a block produces ICE" (`#3186 `_) - Fixed "Call to `createU` fails to compile" (`#3193 `_) - Fixed "VM crash when accessing array's element" (`#3192 `_) - Fixed "Unexpected proc invoked when different modules add procs to a type from a 3rd module" (`#2664 `_) - Fixed "Nim crashes on conditional declaration inside a template" (`#2670 `_) - Fixed "Iterator names conflict within different scopes" (`#2752 `_) - Fixed "VM: Cannot assign int value to ref variable" (`#1329 `_) - Fixed "Incorrect code generated for tagged unions with enums not starting at zero" (`#3096 `_) - Fixed "Compile time procs using forward declarations are silently ignored" (`#3066 `_) - Fixed "re binding error in generic" (`#1965 `_) - Fixed "os.getCreationTime is incorrect/impossible on Posix systems" (`#1058 `_) - Fixed "Improve error message for osproc.startProcess when command does not exist" (`#2183 `_) - Fixed "gctest segfaults with --gc:markandsweep on x86_64" (`#2305 `_) - Fixed "Coroutine changes break compilation on unsupported architectures" (`#3245 `_) - Fixed "Bugfix: Windows 32bit TinyCC support issue fixed" (`#3237 `_) - Fixed "db_mysql getValue() followed by exec() causing error" (`#3220 `_) - Fixed "xmltree.newEntity creates xnCData instead of xnEntity" (`#3282 `_) - Fixed "Methods and modules don't work together" (`#2590 `_) - Fixed "String slicing not working in the vm" (`#3300 `_) - Fixed "internal error: evalOp(mTypeOf)" (`#3230 `_) - Fixed "#! source code prefix collides with Unix Shebang" (`#2559 `_) - Fixed "wrong codegen for constant object" (`#3195 `_) - Fixed "Doc comments inside procs with implicit returns don't work" (`#1528 `_) 2015-05-04 Version 0.11.2 released ================================== This is just a bugfix release that fixes the most pressing regressions we introduced with version 0.11.0. The way types are computed was changed significantly causing all sort of problems. Sorry for the inconvenience; we grew overconfident our large test suite would prevent these things. 2015-04-30 Version 0.11.0 released ================================== With this release we are one step closer to reaching version 1.0 and by extension the persistence of the Nim specification. As mentioned in the previous release notes, starting with version 1.0, we will not be introducing any more breaking changes to Nim. The *language* itself is very close to 1.0, the primary area that requires more work is the standard library. Take a look at the `download `_ page for binaries (Windows-only) and 0.11.0 snapshots of the source code. The Windows installer now also includes `Aporia `_, `Nimble `_ and other useful tools to get you started with Nim. What's left to be done ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The 1.0 release is expected by the end of this year. Rumors say it will be in summer 2015. What's left: * Bug fixes, bug fixes, bug fixes, in particular: - The remaining bugs of the lambda lifting pass that is responsible to enable closures and closure iterators need to be fixed. - ``concept`` needs to be refined, a nice name for the feature is not enough. - Destructors need to be refined. - ``static[T]`` needs to be fixed. - Finish the implementation of the 'parallel' statement. * ``immediate`` templates and macros will be deprecated as these will soon be completely unnecessary, instead the ``typed`` or ``untyped`` metatypes can be used. * More of the standard library should be moved to Nimble packages and what's left should use the features we have for concurrency and parallelism. Changes affecting backwards compatibility ----------------------------------------- - Parameter names are finally properly ``gensym``'ed. This can break templates though that used to rely on the fact that they are not. (Bug #1915.) This means this doesn't compile anymore: .. code-block:: nim template doIt(body: stmt) {.immediate.} = # this used to inject the 'str' parameter: proc res(str: string) = body doIt: echo str # Error: undeclared identifier: 'str' .. This used to inject the ``str`` parameter into the scope of the body. Declare the ``doIt`` template as ``immediate, dirty`` to get the old behaviour. - Tuple field names are not ignored anymore, this caused too many problems in practice so now the behaviour is as it was for version 0.9.6: If field names exist for the tuple type, they are checked. - ``logging.level`` and ``logging.handlers`` are no longer exported. ``addHandler``, ``getHandlers``, ``setLogFilter`` and ``getLogFilter`` should be used instead. - ``nim idetools`` has been replaced by a separate tool `nimsuggest <0.11.0/nimsuggest.html>`_. - *arrow like* operators are not right associative anymore and are required to end with either ``->``, ``~>`` or ``=>``, not just ``>``. Examples of operators still considered arrow like: ``->``, ``==>``, ``+=>``. On the other hand, the following operators are now considered regular operators again: ``|>``, ``-+>``, etc. - Typeless parameters are now only allowed in templates and macros. The old way turned out to be too error-prone. - The 'addr' and 'type' operators are now parsed as unary function application. This means ``type(x).name`` is now parsed as ``(type(x)).name`` and not as ``type((x).name)``. Note that this also affects the AST structure; for immediate macro parameters ``nkCall('addr', 'x')`` is produced instead of ``nkAddr('x')``. - ``concept`` is now a keyword and is used instead of ``generic``. - The ``inc``, ``dec``, ``+=``, ``-=`` builtins now produce OverflowError exceptions. This means code like the following: .. code-block:: nim var x = low(T) while x <= high(T): echo x inc x Needs to be replaced by something like this: .. code-block:: nim var x = low(T).int while x <= high(T).int: echo x.T inc x - **Negative indexing for slicing does not work anymore!** Instead of ``a[0.. -1]`` you can use ``a[0.. ^1]``. This also works with accessing a single element ``a[^1]``. Note that we cannot detect this reliably as it is determined at **runtime** whether negative indexing is used! ``a[0.. -1]`` now produces the empty string/sequence. - The compiler now warns about code like ``foo +=1`` which uses inconsistent spacing around binary operators. Later versions of the language will parse these as unary operators instead so that ``echo $foo`` finally can do what people expect it to do. - ``system.untyped`` and ``system.typed`` have been introduced as aliases for ``expr`` and ``stmt``. The new names capture the semantics much better and most likely ``expr`` and ``stmt`` will be deprecated in favor of the new names. - The ``split`` method in module ``re`` has changed. It now handles the case of matches having a length of 0, and empty strings being yielded from the iterator. A notable change might be that a pattern being matched at the beginning and end of a string, will result in an empty string being produced at the start and the end of the iterator. - The compiler and nimsuggest now count columns starting with 1, not 0 for consistency with the rest of the world. Language Additions ------------------ - For empty ``case object`` branches ``discard`` can finally be used instead of ``nil``. - Automatic dereferencing is now done for the first argument of a routine call if overloading resolution produces no match otherwise. This feature has to be enabled with the `experimental <0.11.0/manual.html#pragmas-experimental-pragma>`_ pragma. - Objects that do not use inheritance nor ``case`` can be put into ``const`` sections. This means that finally this is possible and produces rather nice code: .. code-block:: nim import tables const foo = {"ah": "finally", "this": "is", "possible.": "nice!"}.toTable() - Ordinary parameters can follow after a varargs parameter. This means the following is finally accepted by the compiler: .. code-block:: nim template takesBlock(a, b: int, x: varargs[expr]; blck: stmt) = blck echo a, b takesBlock 1, 2, "some", 0.90, "random stuff": echo "yay" - Overloading by 'var T' is now finally possible: .. code-block:: nim proc varOrConst(x: var int) = echo "var" proc varOrConst(x: int) = echo "const" var x: int varOrConst(x) # "var" varOrConst(45) # "const" - Array and seq indexing can now use the builtin ``^`` operator to access things from backwards: ``a[^1]`` is like Python's ``a[-1]``. - A first version of the specification and implementation of the overloading of the assignment operator has arrived! - ``system.len`` for strings and sequences now returns 0 for nil. - A single underscore can now be used to discard values when unpacking tuples: .. code-block:: nim let (path, _, _) = os.splitFile("path/file.ext") - ``marshal.$$`` and ``marshal.to`` can be executed at compile-time. - Interoperability with C++ improved tremendously; C++'s templates and operators can be wrapped directly. See `this <0.11.0/nimc.html#additional-features-importcpp-pragma>`_ for more information. - ``macros.getType`` can be used to query an AST's type at compile-time. This enables more powerful macros, for instance *currying* can now be done with a macro. Library additions ----------------- - ``reversed`` proc added to the ``unicode`` module. - Added multipart param to httpclient's ``post`` and ``postContent`` together with a ``newMultipartData`` proc. - Added `%*` operator for JSON. - The compiler is now available as Nimble package for c2nim. - Added ``..^`` and ``..<`` templates to system so that the rather annoying space between ``.. <`` and ``.. ^`` is not necessary anymore. - Added ``system.xlen`` for strings and sequences to get back the old ``len`` operation that doesn't check for ``nil`` for efficiency. - Added sexp.nim to parse and generate sexp. Bugfixes -------- - Fixed internal compiler error when using ``char()`` in an echo call (`#1788 `_). - Fixed Windows cross-compilation on Linux. - Overload resolution now works for types distinguished only by a ``static[int]`` param (`#1056 `_). - Other fixes relating to generic types and static params. - Fixed some compiler crashes with unnamed tuples (`#1774 `_). - Fixed ``channels.tryRecv`` blocking (`#1816 `_). - Fixed generic instantiation errors with ``typedesc`` (`#419 `_). - Fixed generic regression where the compiler no longer detected constant expressions properly (`#544 `_). - Fixed internal error with generic proc using ``static[T]`` in a specific way (`#1049 `_). - More fixes relating to generics (`#1820 `_, `#1050 `_, `#1859 `_, `#1858 `_). - Fixed httpclient to properly encode queries. - Many fixes to the ``uri`` module. - Async sockets are now closed on error. - Fixes to httpclient's handling of multipart data. - Fixed GC segfaults with asynchronous sockets (`#1796 `_). - Added more versions to openssl's DLL version list (`076f993 `_). - Fixed shallow copy in iterators being broken (`#1803 `_). - ``nil`` can now be inserted into tables with the ``db_sqlite`` module (`#1866 `_). - Fixed "Incorrect assembler generated" (`#1907 `_) - Fixed "Expression templates that define macros are unusable in some contexts" (`#1903 `_) - Fixed "a second level generic subclass causes the compiler to crash" (`#1919 `_) - Fixed "nim 0.10.2 generates invalid AsyncHttpClient C code for MSVC " (`#1901 `_) - Fixed "1 shl n produces wrong C code" (`#1928 `_) - Fixed "Internal error on tuple yield" (`#1838 `_) - Fixed "ICE with template" (`#1915 `_) - Fixed "include the tool directory in the installer as it is required by koch" (`#1947 `_) - Fixed "Can't compile if file location contains spaces on Windows" (`#1955 `_) - Fixed "List comprehension macro only supports infix checks as guards" (`#1920 `_) - Fixed "wrong field names of compatible tuples in generic types" (`#1910 `_) - Fixed "Macros within templates no longer work as expected" (`#1944 `_) - Fixed "Compiling for Standalone AVR broken in 0.10.2" (`#1964 `_) - Fixed "Compiling for Standalone AVR broken in 0.10.2" (`#1964 `_) - Fixed "Code generation for mitems with tuple elements" (`#1833 `_) - Fixed "httpclient.HttpMethod should not be an enum" (`#1962 `_) - Fixed "terminal / eraseScreen() throws an OverflowError" (`#1906 `_) - Fixed "setControlCHook(nil) disables registered quit procs" (`#1546 `_) - Fixed "Unexpected idetools behaviour" (`#325 `_) - Fixed "Unused lifted lambda does not compile" (`#1642 `_) - Fixed "'low' and 'high' don't work with cstring asguments" (`#2030 `_) - Fixed "Converting to int does not round in JS backend" (`#1959 `_) - Fixed "Internal error genRecordField 2 when adding region to pointer." (`#2039 `_) - Fixed "Macros fail to compile when compiled with --os:standalone" (`#2041 `_) - Fixed "Reading from {.compileTime.} variables can cause code generation to fail" (`#2022 `_) - Fixed "Passing overloaded symbols to templates fails inside generic procedures" (`#1988 `_) - Fixed "Compiling iterator with object assignment in release mode causes "var not init"" (`#2023 `_) - Fixed "calling a large number of macros doing some computation fails" (`#1989 `_) - Fixed "Can't get Koch to install nim under Windows" (`#2061 `_) - Fixed "Template with two stmt parameters segfaults compiler" (`#2057 `_) - Fixed "`noSideEffect` not affected by `echo`" (`#2011 `_) - Fixed "Compiling with the cpp backend ignores --passc" (`#1601 `_) - Fixed "Put untyped procedure parameters behind the experimental pragma" (`#1956 `_) - Fixed "generic regression" (`#2073 `_) - Fixed "generic regression" (`#2073 `_) - Fixed "Regression in template lookup with generics" (`#2004 `_) - Fixed "GC's growObj is wrong for edge cases" (`#2070 `_) - Fixed "Compiler internal error when creating an array out of a typeclass" (`#1131 `_) - Fixed "GC's growObj is wrong for edge cases" (`#2070 `_) - Fixed "Invalid Objective-C code generated when calling class method" (`#2068 `_) - Fixed "walkDirRec Error" (`#2116 `_) - Fixed "Typo in code causes compiler SIGSEGV in evalAtCompileTime" (`#2113 `_) - Fixed "Regression on exportc" (`#2118 `_) - Fixed "Error message" (`#2102 `_) - Fixed "hint[path] = off not working in nim.cfg" (`#2103 `_) - Fixed "compiler crashes when getting a tuple from a sequence of generic tuples" (`#2121 `_) - Fixed "nim check hangs with when" (`#2123 `_) - Fixed "static[T] param in nested type resolve/caching issue" (`#2125 `_) - Fixed "repr should display ``\0``" (`#2124 `_) - Fixed "'nim check' never ends in case of recursive dependency " (`#2051 `_) - Fixed "From macros: Error: unhandled exception: sons is not accessible" (`#2167 `_) - Fixed "`fieldPairs` doesn't work inside templates" (`#1902 `_) - Fixed "fields iterator misbehavior on break statement" (`#2134 `_) - Fixed "Fix for compiler not building anymore since #c3244ef1ff" (`#2193 `_) - Fixed "JSON parser fails in cpp output mode" (`#2199 `_) - Fixed "macros.getType mishandles void return" (`#2211 `_) - Fixed "Regression involving templates instantiated within generics" (`#2215 `_) - Fixed ""Error: invalid type" for 'not nil' on generic type." (`#2216 `_) - Fixed "--threads:on breaks async" (`#2074 `_) - Fixed "Type mismatch not always caught, can generate bad code for C backend." (`#2169 `_) - Fixed "Failed C compilation when storing proc to own type in object" (`#2233 `_) - Fixed "Unknown line/column number in constant declaration type conversion error" (`#2252 `_) - Fixed "Adding {.compile.} fails if nimcache already exists." (`#2247 `_) - Fixed "Two different type names generated for a single type (C backend)" (`#2250 `_) - Fixed "Ambigous call when it should not be" (`#2229 `_) - Fixed "Make sure we can load root urls" (`#2227 `_) - Fixed "Failure to slice a string with an int subrange type" (`#794 `_) - Fixed "documentation error" (`#2205 `_) - Fixed "Code growth when using `const`" (`#1940 `_) - Fixed "Instances of generic types confuse overload resolution" (`#2220 `_) - Fixed "Compiler error when initializing sdl2's EventType" (`#2316 `_) - Fixed "Parallel disjoint checking can't handle `<`, `items`, or arrays" (`#2287 `_) - Fixed "Strings aren't copied in parallel loop" (`#2286 `_) - Fixed "JavaScript compiler crash with tables" (`#2298 `_) - Fixed "Range checker too restrictive" (`#1845 `_) - Fixed "Failure to slice a string with an int subrange type" (`#794 `_) - Fixed "Remind user when compiling in debug mode" (`#1868 `_) - Fixed "Compiler user guide has jumbled options/commands." (`#1819 `_) - Fixed "using `method`: 1 in a objects constructor fails when compiling" (`#1791 `_) 2014-12-29 Version 0.10.2 released ================================== This release marks the completion of a very important change to the project: the official renaming from Nimrod to Nim. Version 0.10.2 contains many language changes, some of which may break your existing code. For your convenience, we added a new tool called `nimfix `_ that will help you convert your existing projects so that it works with the latest version of the compiler. Progress towards version 1.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Although Nim is still pre-1.0, we were able to keep the number of breaking changes to a minimum so far. Starting with version 1.0, we will not introduce any breaking changes between major release versions. One of Nim's goals is to ensure that the compiler is as efficient as possible. Take a look at the `latest benchmarks `_, which show that Nim is consistently near the top and already nearly as fast as C and C++. Recent developments, such as the new ``asyncdispatch`` module will allow you to write efficient web server applications using non-blocking code. Nim now also has a built-in thread pool for lightweight threading through the use of ``spawn``. The unpopular "T" and "P" prefixes on types have been deprecated. Nim also became more expressive by weakening the distinction between statements and expressions. We also added a new and searchable forum, a new website, and our documentation generator ``docgen`` has seen major improvements. Many thanks to Nick Greenfield for the much more beautiful documentation! What's left to be done ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The 1.0 release is actually very close. Apart from bug fixes, there are two major features missing or incomplete: * ``static[T]`` needs to be defined precisely and the bugs in the implementation need to be fixed. * Overloading of the assignment operator is required for some generic containers and needs to be implemented. This means that fancy matrix libraries will finally start to work, which used to be a major point of pain in the language. Nimble and other Nim tools ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Outside of the language and the compiler itself many Nim tools have seen considerable improvements. Babel the Nim package manager has been renamed to Nimble. Nimble's purpose is the installation of packages containing libraries and/or applications written in Nim. Even though Nimble is still very young it already is very functional. It can install packages by name, it does so by accessing a packages repository which is hosted on a GitHub repo. Packages can also be installed via a Git repo URL or Mercurial repo URL. The package repository is searchable through Nimble. Anyone is free to add their own packages to the package repository by forking the `nim-lang/packages `_ repo and creating a pull request. Nimble is fully cross-platform and should be fully functional on all major operating systems. It is of course completely written in Nim. Changelog ~~~~~~~~~ Changes affecting backwards compatibility ----------------------------------------- - **The language has been renamed from Nimrod to Nim.** The name of the compiler changed from ``nimrod`` to ``nim`` too. - ``system.fileHandle`` has been renamed to ``system.getFileHandle`` to prevent name conflicts with the new type ``FileHandle``. - Comments are now not part of the AST anymore, as such you cannot use them in place of ``discard``. - Large parts of the stdlib got rid of the T/P type prefixes. Instead most types now simply start with an uppercased letter. The so called "partial case sensitivity" rule is now active allowing for code like ``var foo: Foo`` in more contexts. - String case (or any non-ordinal case) statements without 'else' are deprecated. - Recursive tuple types are not allowed anymore. Use ``object`` instead. - The PEGS module returns ``nil`` instead of ``""`` when an optional capture fails to match. - The re module returns ``nil`` instead of ``""`` when an optional capture fails to match. - The "symmetric set difference" operator (``-+-``) never worked and has been removed. - ``defer`` is a keyword now. - ``func`` is a keyword now. - The ``using`` language feature now needs to be activated via the new ``{.experimental.}`` pragma that enables experimental language features. - Destructors are now officially *experimental*. - Standalone ``except`` and ``finally`` statements are deprecated now. The standalone ``finally`` can be replaced with ``defer``, standalone ``except`` requires an explicit ``try``. - Operators ending in ``>`` are considered as "arrow like" and have their own priority level and are right associative. This means that the ``=>`` and ``->`` operators from the `future `_ module work better. - Field names in tuples are now ignored for type comparisons. This allows for greater interoperability between different modules. - Statement lists are not converted to an implicit ``do`` block anymore. This means the confusing ``nnkDo`` nodes when working with macros are gone for good. Language Additions ------------------ - The new concurrency model has been implemented including ``locks`` sections, lock levels and object field ``guards``. - The ``parallel`` statement has been implemented. - ``deepCopy`` has been added to the language. - The builtin ``procCall`` can be used to get ``super``-like functionality for multi methods. - There is a new pragma ``{.experimental.}`` that enables experimental language features per module, or you can enable these features on a global level with the ``--experimental`` command line option. Compiler Additions ------------------ - The compiler now supports *mixed* Objective C / C++ / C code generation: The modules that use ``importCpp`` or ``importObjc`` are compiled to C++ or Objective C code, any other module is compiled to C code. This improves interoperability. - There is a new ``parallel`` statement for safe fork&join parallel computing. - ``guard`` and ``lock`` pragmas have been implemented to support safer concurrent programming. - The following procs are now available at compile-time:: math.sqrt, math.ln, math.log10, math.log2, math.exp, math.round, math.arccos, math.arcsin, math.arctan, math.arctan2, math.cos, math.cosh, math.hypot, math.sinh, math.sin, math.tan, math.tanh, math.pow, math.trunc, math.floor, math.ceil, math.fmod, os.getEnv, os.existsEnv, os.dirExists, os.fileExists, system.writeFile - Two backticks now produce a single backtick within an ``emit`` or ``asm`` statement. - There is a new tool, `nimfix `_ to help you in updating your code from Nimrod to Nim. - The compiler's output has been prettified. Library Additions ----------------- - Added module ``fenv`` to control the handling of floating-point rounding and exceptions (overflow, division by zero, etc.). - ``system.setupForeignThreadGc`` can be used for better interaction with foreign libraries that create threads and run a Nim callback from these foreign threads. - List comprehensions have been implemented as a macro in the ``future`` module. - The new Async module (``asyncnet``) now supports SSL. - The ``smtp`` module now has an async implementation. - Added module ``asyncfile`` which implements asynchronous file reading and writing. - ``osproc.kill`` has been added. - ``asyncnet`` and ``asynchttpserver`` now support ``SO_REUSEADDR``. Bugfixes -------- - ``nil`` and ``NULL`` are now preserved between Nim and databases in the ``db_*`` modules. - Fixed issue with OS module in non-unicode mode on Windows. - Fixed issue with ``x.low`` (`#1366 `_). - Fixed tuple unpacking issue inside closure iterators (`#1067 `_). - Fixed ENDB compilation issues. - Many ``asynchttpserver`` fixes. - Macros can now keep global state across macro calls (`#903 `_). - ``osproc`` fixes on Windows. - ``osproc.terminate`` fixed. - Improvements to exception handling in async procedures. (`#1487 `_). - ``try`` now works at compile-time. - Fixes ``T = ref T`` to be an illegal recursive type. - Self imports are now disallowed. - Improved effect inference. - Fixes for the ``math`` module on Windows. - User defined pragmas will now work for generics that have been instantiated in different modules. - Fixed queue exhaustion bug. - Many, many more. 2014-12-09 New website design! ============================== A brand new website including an improved forum is now live. All thanks go to Philip Witte and Dominik Picheta, Philip Witte for the design of the website (together with the logo) as well as the HTML and CSS code for his template, and Dominik Picheta for integrating Philip's design with Nim's forum. We're sure you will agree that Philip's design is beautiful. 2014-10-19 Version 0.9.6 released ================================= **Note: 0.9.6 is the last release of Nimrod. The language is being renamed to Nim. Nim slightly breaks compatibility.** This is a maintenance release. The upcoming 0.10.0 release has the new features and exciting developments. Changes affecting backwards compatibility ----------------------------------------- - ``spawn`` now uses an elaborate self-adapting thread pool and as such has been moved into its own module. So to use it, you now have to import ``threadpool``. - The symbol binding rules in generics changed: ``bar`` in ``foo.bar`` is now considered for implicit early binding. - ``c2nim`` moved into its own repository and is now a Babel package. - ``pas2nim`` moved into its own repository and is now a Babel package. - ``system.$`` for floating point types now produces a human friendly string representation. - ``uri.TUrl`` as well as the ``parseurl`` module are now deprecated in favour of the new ``TUri`` type in the ``uri`` module. - The ``destructor`` pragma has been deprecated. Use the ``override`` pragma instead. The destructor's name has to be ``destroy`` now. - ``lambda`` is not a keyword anymore. - **system.defined has been split into system.defined and system.declared**. You have to use ``--symbol`` to declare new conditional symbols that can be set via ``--define``. - ``--threadanalysis:on`` is now the default. To make your program compile you can disable it but this is only a temporary solution as this option will disappear soon! Compiler improvements --------------------- - Multi method dispatching performance has been improved by a factor of 10x for pathological cases. Language Additions ------------------ - This version introduces the ``deprecated`` pragma statement that is used to handle the upcoming massive amount of symbol renames. - ``spawn`` can now wrap proc that has a return value. It then returns a data flow variable of the wrapped return type. Library Additions ----------------- - Added module ``cpuinfo``. - Added module ``threadpool``. - ``sequtils.distnct`` has been renamed to ``sequtils.deduplicate``. - Added ``algorithm.reversed`` - Added ``uri.combine`` and ``uri.parseUri``. - Some sockets procedures now support a ``SafeDisconn`` flag which causes them to handle disconnection errors and not raise them. 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. **Note: This release has to be considered beta quality! Lots of new features have been implemented but unfortunately some do not fulfill our quality standards yet.** Prebuilt binaries and instructions for building from source are available on the `download page `_. This release includes about `1400 changes `_ in total including various bug fixes, new languages features and standard library additions and improvements. This release brings with it support for user-defined type classes, a brand new VM for executing Nimrod code at compile-time and new symbol binding rules for clean templates. It also introduces support for the brand new `Babel package manager `_ which has itself seen its first release recently. Many of the wrappers that were present in the standard library have been moved to separate repositories and should now be installed using Babel. Apart from that a new **experimental** Asynchronous IO API has been added via the ``asyncdispatch`` and ``asyncnet`` modules. The ``net`` and ``rawsockets`` modules have also been added and they will likely replace the sockets module in the next release. The Asynchronous IO API has been designed to take advantage of Linux's epoll and Windows' IOCP APIs, support for BSD's kqueue has not been implemented yet but will be in the future. The Asynchronous IO API provides both a callback interface and an interface which allows you to write code as you would if you were writing synchronous code. The latter is done through the use of an ``await`` macro which behaves similar to C#'s await. The following is a very simple chat server demonstrating Nimrod's new async capabilities. .. code-block::nim import asyncnet, asyncdispatch var clients: seq[PAsyncSocket] = @[] proc processClient(client: PAsyncSocket) {.async.} = while true: let line = await client.recvLine() for c in clients: await c.send(line & "\c\L") proc serve() {.async.} = var server = newAsyncSocket() server.bindAddr(TPort(12345)) server.listen() while true: let client = await server.accept() clients.add client processClient(client) serve() runForever() 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::nim import future var s = @[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] echo(s.map((x: int) => x * 5)) A list of changes follows, for a comprehensive list of changes take a look `here `_. Library Additions ----------------- - Added ``macros.genSym`` builtin for AST generation. - Added ``macros.newLit`` procs for easier AST generation. - Added module ``logging``. - Added module ``asyncdispatch``. - Added module ``asyncnet``. - Added module ``net``. - Added module ``rawsockets``. - Added module ``selectors``. - Added module ``asynchttpserver``. - Added support for the new asynchronous IO in the ``httpclient`` module. - Added a Python-inspired ``future`` module that features upcoming additions to the ``system`` module. Changes affecting backwards compatibility ----------------------------------------- - The scoping rules for the ``if`` statement changed for better interaction with the new syntactic construct ``(;)``. - ``OSError`` family of procedures has been deprecated. Procedures with the same name but which take different parameters have been introduced. These procs now require an error code to be passed to them. This error code can be retrieved using the new ``OSLastError`` proc. - ``os.parentDir`` now returns "" if there is no parent dir. - In CGI scripts stacktraces are shown to the user only if ``cgi.setStackTraceStdout`` is used. - The symbol binding rules for clean templates changed: ``bind`` for any symbol that's not a parameter is now the default. ``mixin`` can be used to require instantiation scope for a symbol. - ``quoteIfContainsWhite`` now escapes argument in such way that it can be safely passed to shell, instead of just adding double quotes. - ``macros.dumpTree`` and ``macros.dumpLisp`` have been made ``immediate``, ``dumpTreeImm`` and ``dumpLispImm`` are now deprecated. - The ``nil`` statement has been deprecated, use an empty ``discard`` instead. - ``sockets.select`` now prunes sockets that are **not** ready from the list of sockets given to it. - The ``noStackFrame`` pragma has been renamed to ``asmNoStackFrame`` to ensure you only use it when you know what you're doing. - Many of the wrappers that were present in the standard library have been moved to separate repositories and should now be installed using Babel. Compiler Additions ------------------ - The compiler can now warn about "uninitialized" variables. (There are no real uninitialized variables in Nimrod as they are initialized to binary zero). Activate via ``{.warning[Uninit]:on.}``. - The compiler now enforces the ``not nil`` constraint. - The compiler now supports a ``codegenDecl`` pragma for even more control over the generated code. - The compiler now supports a ``computedGoto`` pragma to support very fast dispatching for interpreters and the like. - The old evaluation engine has been replaced by a proper register based virtual machine. This fixes numerous bugs for ``nimrod i`` and for macro evaluation. - ``--gc:none`` produces warnings when code uses the GC. - A ``union`` pragma for better C interoperability is now supported. - A ``packed`` pragma to control the memory packing/alignment of fields in an object. - Arrays can be annotated to be ``unchecked`` for easier low level manipulations of memory. - Support for the new Babel package manager. Language Additions ------------------ - Arrays can now be declared with a single integer literal ``N`` instead of a range; the range is then ``0..N-1``. - Added ``requiresInit`` pragma to enforce explicit initialization. - Exported templates are allowed to access hidden fields. - The ``using statement`` enables you to more easily author domain-specific languages and libraries providing OOP-like syntactic sugar. - Added the possibility to override various dot operators in order to handle calls to missing procs and reads from undeclared fields at compile-time. - The overload resolution now supports ``static[T]`` params that must be evaluable at compile-time. - Support for user-defined type classes has been added. - The *command syntax* is supported in a lot more contexts. - Anonymous iterators are now supported and iterators can capture variables of an outer proc. - The experimental ``strongSpaces`` parsing mode has been implemented. - You can annotate pointer types with regions for increased type safety. - Added support for the builtin ``spawn`` for easy thread pool usage. Tools improvements ------------------ - c2nim can deal with a subset of C++. Use the ``--cpp`` command line option to activate. 2014-02-11 Nimrod Featured in Dr. Dobb's Journal ================================================ Nimrod has been `featured`_ as the cover story in the February 2014 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal. 2014-01-15 Andreas Rumpf's talk on Nimrod at Strange Loop 2013 is now online ============================================================================ Andreas Rumpf presented *Nimrod: A New Approach to Metaprogramming* at `Strange Loop 2013`_. The `video and slides`_ of the talk are now available. 2013-05-20 New website design! ============================== A brand new website is now live. All thanks go to Philip Witte and Dominik Picheta, Philip Witte for the design of the website (together with the logo) as well as the HTML and CSS code for his template, and Dominik Picheta for integrating Philip's design with the ``nimweb`` utility. We're sure you will agree that Philip's design is beautiful. 2013-05-20 Version 0.9.2 released ================================= We are pleased to announce that version 0.9.2 of the Nimrod compiler has been released. This release has attracted by far the most contributions in comparison to any other release. This release brings with it many new features and bug fixes, a list of which can be seen later. One of the major new features is the effect system together with exception tracking which allows for checked exceptions and more, for further details check out the `manual `_. Another major new feature is the introduction of statement list expressions, more details on these can be found `here `_. The ability to exclude symbols from modules has also been implemented, this feature can be used like so: ``import module except symbol``. Thanks to all `contributors `_! Bugfixes -------- - The old GC never collected cycles correctly. Fixed but it can cause performance regressions. However you can deactivate the cycle collector with ``GC_disableMarkAndSweep`` and run it explicitly at an appropriate time or not at all. There is also a new GC you can activate with ``--gc:markAndSweep`` which does not have this problem but is slower in general and has no realtime guarantees. - ``cast`` for floating point types now does the bitcast as specified in the manual. This breaks code that erroneously uses ``cast`` to convert different floating point values. - SCGI module's performance has been improved greatly, it will no longer block on many concurrent requests. - In total fixed over 70 github issues and merged over 60 pull requests. Library Additions ----------------- - There is a new experimental mark&sweep GC which can be faster (or much slower) than the default GC. Enable with ``--gc:markAndSweep``. - Added ``system.onRaise`` to support a condition system. - Added ``system.locals`` that provides access to a proc's locals. - Added ``macros.quote`` for AST quasi-quoting. - Added ``system.unsafeNew`` to support hacky variable length objects. - ``system.fields`` and ``system.fieldPairs`` support ``object`` too; they used to only support tuples. - Added ``system.CurrentSourcePath`` returning the full file-system path of the current source file. - The ``macros`` module now contains lots of useful helpers for building up abstract syntax trees. Changes affecting backwards compatibility ----------------------------------------- - ``shared`` is a keyword now. - Deprecated ``sockets.recvLine`` and ``asyncio.recvLine``, added ``readLine`` instead. - The way indentation is handled in the parser changed significantly. However, this affects very little (if any) real world code. - The expression/statement unification has been implemented. Again this only affects edge cases and no known real world code. - Changed the async interface of the ``scgi`` module. - WideStrings are now garbage collected like other string types. Compiler Additions ------------------ - The ``doc2`` command does not generate output for the whole project anymore. Use the new ``--project`` switch to enable this behaviour. - The compiler can now warn about shadowed local variables. However, this needs to be turned on explicitly via ``--warning[ShadowIdent]:on``. - The compiler now supports almost every pragma in a ``push`` pragma. - Generic converters have been implemented. - Added a **highly experimental** ``noforward`` pragma enabling a special compilation mode that largely eliminates the need for forward declarations. Language Additions ------------------ - ``case expressions`` are now supported. - Table constructors now mimic more closely the syntax of the ``case`` statement. - Nimrod can now infer the return type of a proc from its body. - Added a ``mixin`` declaration to affect symbol binding rules in generics. - Exception tracking has been added and the ``doc2`` command annotates possible exceptions for you. - User defined effects ("tags") tracking has been added and the ``doc2`` command annotates possible tags for you. - Types can be annotated with the new syntax ``not nil`` to explicitly state that ``nil`` is not allowed. However currently the compiler performs no advanced static checking for this; for now it's merely for documentation purposes. - An ``export`` statement has been added to the language: It can be used for symbol forwarding so client modules don't have to import a module's dependencies explicitly. - Overloading based on ASTs has been implemented. - Generics are now supported for multi methods. - Objects can be initialized via an *object constructor expression*. - There is a new syntactic construct ``(;)`` unifying expressions and statements. - You can now use ``from module import nil`` if you want to import the module but want to enforce fully qualified access to every symbol in ``module``. Notes for the future -------------------- - The scope rules of ``if`` statements will change in 0.9.4. This affects the ``=~`` pegs/re templates. - The ``sockets`` module will become a low-level wrapper of OS-specific socket functions. All the high-level features of the current ``sockets`` module will be moved to a ``network`` module. 2012-09-23 Version 0.9.0 released ================================= Summary ------- * Unsigned integers have been added. * The integer type promotion rules changed. * The template and macro system evolved. * Closures have been implemented. * Term rewriting macros have been implemented. * First steps to unify expressions and statements have been taken. * Symbol lookup rules in generics have become stricter to catch more errors. Bugfixes -------- - Fixed a bug where the compiler would "optimize away" valid constant parts of a string concatenation. - Fixed a bug concerning implicit type conversions in ``case`` statements. - Fixed a serious code generation bug that caused ``algorithm.sort`` to produce segmentation faults. - Fixed ambiguity in recvLine which meant that receiving ``\r\L`` was indistinguishable from disconnections. - Many more bugfixes, too many to list them all. Library Additions ----------------- - Added the (already existing) module ``htmlgen`` to the documentation. - Added the (already existing) module ``cookies`` to the documentation. - Added ``system.shallow`` that can be used to speed up string and sequence assignments. - Added ``system.eval`` that can execute an anonymous block of code at compile time as if was a macro. - Added ``system.staticExec`` and ``system.gorge`` for compile-time execution of external programs. - Added ``system.staticRead`` as a synonym for ``system.slurp``. - Added ``macros.emit`` that can emit an arbitrary computed string as nimrod code during compilation. - Added ``strutils.parseEnum``. - Added ``json.%`` constructor operator. - The stdlib can now be avoided to a point where C code generation for 16bit micro controllers is feasible. - Added module ``oids``. - Added module ``endians``. - Added a new OpenGL wrapper that supports OpenGL up to version 4.2. - Added a wrapper for ``libsvm``. - Added a wrapper for ``mongodb``. - Added ``terminal.isatty``. - Added an overload for ``system.items`` that can be used to iterate over the values of an enum. - Added ``system.TInteger`` and ``system.TNumber`` type classes matching any of the corresponding types available in Nimrod. - Added ``system.clamp`` to limit a value within an interval ``[a, b]``. - Added ``strutils.continuesWith``. - Added ``system.getStackTrace``. - Added ``system.||`` for parallel ``for`` loop support. - The GC supports (soft) realtime systems via ``GC_setMaxPause`` and ``GC_step`` procs. - The sockets module now supports ssl through the OpenSSL library, ``recvLine`` is now much more efficient thanks to the newly implemented sockets buffering. - The httpclient module now supports ssl/tls. - Added ``times.format`` as well as many other utility functions for managing time. - Added ``system.@`` for converting an ``openarray`` to a ``seq`` (it used to only support fixed length arrays). - Added ``system.compiles`` which can be used to check whether a type supports some operation. - Added ``strutils.format``, ``subexes.format`` which use the new ``varargs`` type. - Added module ``fsmonitor``. Changes affecting backwards compatibility ----------------------------------------- - On Windows filenames and paths are supposed to be in UTF-8. The ``system``, ``os``, ``osproc`` and ``memfiles`` modules use the wide string versions of the WinAPI. Use the ``-d:useWinAnsi`` switch to revert back to the old behaviour which uses the Ansi string versions. - ``static``, ``do``, ``interface`` and ``mixin`` are now keywords. - Templates now participate in overloading resolution which can break code that uses templates in subtle ways. Use the new ``immediate`` pragma for templates to get a template of old behaviour. - There is now a proper distinction in the type system between ``expr`` and ``PNimrodNode`` which unfortunately breaks the old macro system. - ``pegs.@`` has been renamed to ``pegs.!*`` and ``pegs.@@`` has been renamed to ``pegs.!*\`` as ``@`` operators now have different precedence. - The type ``proc`` (without any params or return type) is now considered a type class matching all proc types. Use ``proc ()`` to get the old meaning denoting a proc expecing no arguments and returing no value. - Deprecated ``system.GC_setStrategy``. - ``re.findAll`` and ``pegs.findAll`` don't return *captures* anymore but matching *substrings*. - RTTI and thus the ``marshall`` module don't contain the proper field names of tuples anymore. This had to be changed as the old behaviour never produced consistent results. - Deprecated the ``ssl`` module. - Deprecated ``nimrod pretty`` as it never worked good enough and has some inherent problems. - The integer promotion rules changed; the compiler is now less picky in some situations and more picky in other situations: In particular implicit conversions from ``int`` to ``int32`` are now forbidden. - ``system.byte`` is now an alias for ``uint8``; it used to be an alias to ``int8``. - ``bind`` expressions in templates are not properly supported anymore. Use the declarative ``bind`` statement instead. - The default calling convention for a procedural **type** is now ``closure``, for procs it remains ``nimcall`` (which is compatible to ``closure``). Activate the warning ``ImplicitClosure`` to make the compiler list the occurrences of proc types which are affected. - The Nimrod type system now distinguishes ``openarray`` from ``varargs``. - Templates are now ``hygienic``. Use the ``dirty`` pragma to get the old behaviour. - Objects that have no ancestor are now implicitly ``final``. Use the ``inheritable`` pragma to introduce new object roots apart from ``TObject``. - Macros now receive parameters like templates do; use the ``callsite`` builtin to gain access to the invocation AST. - Symbol lookup rules in generics have become stricter to catch more errors. Compiler Additions ------------------ - Win64 is now an officially supported target. - The Nimrod compiler works on BSD again, but has some issues as ``os.getAppFilename`` and ``os.getAppDir`` cannot work reliably on BSD. - The compiler can detect and evaluate calls that can be evaluated at compile time for optimization purposes with the ``--implicitStatic`` command line option or pragma. - The compiler now generates marker procs that the GC can use instead of RTTI. This speeds up the GC quite a bit. - The compiler now includes a new advanced documentation generator via the ``doc2`` command. This new generator uses all of the semantic passes of the compiler and can thus generate documentation for symbols hiding in macros. - The compiler now supports the ``dynlib`` pragma for variables. - The compiler now supports ``bycopy`` and ``byref`` pragmas that affect how objects/tuples are passed. - The embedded profiler became a stack trace profiler and has been documented. Language Additions ------------------ - Added explicit ``static`` sections for enforced compile time evaluation. - Added an alternative notation for lambdas with ``do``. - ``addr`` is now treated like a prefix operator syntactically. - Added ``global`` pragma that can be used to introduce new global variables from within procs. - ``when`` expressions are now allowed just like ``if`` expressions. - The precedence for operators starting with ``@`` is different now allowing for *sigil-like* operators. - Stand-alone ``finally`` and ``except`` blocks are now supported. - Macros and templates can now be invoked as pragmas. - The apostrophe in type suffixes for numerical literals is now optional. - Unsigned integer types have been added. - The integer promotion rules changed. - Nimrod now tracks proper intervals for ``range`` over some built-in operators. - In parameter lists a semicolon instead of a comma can be used to improve readability: ``proc divmod(a, b: int; resA, resB: var int)``. - A semicolon can now be used to have multiple simple statements on a single line: ``inc i; inc j``. - ``bind`` supports overloaded symbols and operators. - A ``distinct`` type can now borrow from generic procs. - Added the pragmas ``gensym``, ``inject`` and ``dirty`` for hygiene in templates. - Comments can be continued with a backslash continuation character so that comment pieces don't have to align on the same column. - Enums can be annotated with ``pure`` so that their field names do not pollute the current scope. - A proc body can consist of an expression that has a type. This is rewritten to ``result = expression`` then. - Term rewriting macros (see `trmacros `_) have been implemented but are still in alpha. 2012-02-09 Version 0.8.14 released ================================== Version 0.8.14 has been released! Bugfixes -------- - Fixed a serious memory corruption concerning message passing. - Fixed a serious bug concerning different instantiations of a generic proc. - Fixed a newly introduced bug where a wrong ``EIO`` exception was raised for the end of file for text files that do not end with a newline. - Bugfix c2nim, c2pas: the ``--out`` option has never worked properly. - Bugfix: forwarding of generic procs never worked. - Some more bugfixes for macros and compile-time evaluation. - The GC now takes into account interior pointers on the stack which may be introduced by aggressive C optimizers. - Nimrod's native allocator/GC now works on PowerPC. - Lots of other bugfixes: Too many to list them all. Changes affecting backwards compatibility ----------------------------------------- - Removed deprecated ``os.AppendFileExt``, ``os.executeShellCommand``, ``os.iterOverEnvironment``, ``os.pcDirectory``, ``os.pcLinkToDirectory``, ``os.SplitPath``, ``os.extractDir``, ``os.SplitFilename``, ``os.extractFileTrunk``, ``os.extractFileExt``, ``osproc.executeProcess``, ``osproc.executeCommand``. - Removed deprecated ``parseopt.init``, ``parseopt.getRestOfCommandLine``. - Moved ``strutils.validEmailAddress`` to ``matchers.validEmailAddress``. - The pointer dereference operator ``^`` has been removed, so that ``^`` can now be a user-defined operator. - ``implies`` is no keyword anymore. - The ``is`` operator is now the ``of`` operator. - The ``is`` operator is now used to check type equivalence in generic code. - The ``pure`` pragma for procs has been renamed to ``noStackFrame``. - The threading API has been completely redesigned. - The ``unidecode`` module is now thread-safe and its interface has changed. - The ``bind`` expression is deprecated, use a ``bind`` declaration instead. - ``system.raiseHook`` is now split into ``system.localRaiseHook`` and ``system.globalRaiseHook`` to distinguish between thread local and global raise hooks. - Changed exception handling/error reporting for ``os.removeFile`` and ``os.removeDir``. - The algorithm for searching and loading configuration files has been changed. - Operators now have diffent precedence rules: Assignment-like operators (like ``*=``) are now special-cased. - The fields in ``TStream`` have been renamed to have an ``Impl`` suffix because they should not be used directly anymore. Wrapper procs have been created that should be used instead. - ``export`` is now a keyword. - ``assert`` is now implemented in pure Nimrod as a template; it's easy to implement your own assertion templates with ``system.astToStr``. Language Additions ------------------ - Added new ``is`` and ``of`` operators. - The built-in type ``void`` can be used to denote the absence of any type. This is useful in generic code. - Return types may be of the type ``var T`` to return an l-value. - The error pragma can now be used to mark symbols whose *usage* should trigger a compile-time error. - There is a new ``discardable`` pragma that can be used to mark a routine so that its result can be discarded implicitly. - Added a new ``noinit`` pragma to prevent automatic initialization to zero of variables. - Constants can now have the type ``seq``. - There is a new user-definable syntactic construct ``a{i, ...}`` that has no semantics yet for built-in types and so can be overloaded to your heart's content. - ``bind`` (used for symbol binding in templates and generics) is now a declarative statement. - Nimrod now supports single assignment variables via the ``let`` statement. - Iterators named ``items`` and ``pairs`` are implicitly invoked when an explicit iterator is missing. - The slice assignment ``a[i..j] = b`` where ``a`` is a sequence or string now supports *splicing*. Compiler Additions ------------------ - The compiler can generate C++ code for easier interfacing with C++. - The compiler can generate Objective C code for easier interfacing with Objective C. - The new pragmas ``importcpp`` and ``importobjc`` make interfacing with C++ and Objective C somewhat easier. - Added a new pragma ``incompleteStruct`` to deal with incomplete C struct definitions. - Added a ``--nimcache:PATH`` configuration option for control over the output directory for generated code. - The ``--genScript`` option now produces different compilation scripts which do not contain absolute paths. - Added ``--cincludes:dir``, ``--clibdir:lib`` configuration options for modifying the C compiler's header/library search path in cross-platform way. - Added ``--clib:lib`` configuration option for specifying additional C libraries to be linked. - Added ``--mainmodule:file`` configuration options for specifying the main project file. This is intended to be used in project configuration files to allow commands like ``nimrod c`` or ``nimrod check`` to be executed anywhere within the project's directory structure. - Added a ``--app:staticlib`` option for creating static libraries. - Added a ``--tlsEmulation:on|off`` switch for control over thread local storage emulation. - The compiler and standard library now support a *taint mode*. Input strings are declared with the ``TaintedString`` string type. If the taint mode is turned on it is a distinct string type which helps to detect input validation errors. - The compiler now supports the compilation cache via ``--symbolFiles:on``. This potentially speeds up compilations by an order of magnitude, but is still highly experimental! - Added ``--import:file`` and ``--include:file`` configuration options for specifying modules that will be automatically imported/incluced. - ``nimrod i`` can now optionally be given a module to execute. - The compiler now performs a simple alias analysis to generate better code. - The compiler and ENDB now support *watchpoints*. - The compiler now supports proper compile time expressions of type ``bool`` for ``on|off`` switches in pragmas. In order to not break existing code, ``on`` and ``off`` are now aliases for ``true`` and ``false`` and declared in the system module. - The compiler finally supports **closures**. This is a preliminary implementation, which does not yet support nestings deeper than 1 level and still has many known bugs. Library Additions ----------------- - Added ``system.allocShared``, ``system.allocShared0``, ``system.deallocShared``, ``system.reallocShared``. - Slicing as implemented by the system module now supports *splicing*. - Added explicit channels for thread communication. - Added ``matchers`` module for email address etc. matching. - Added ``strutils.unindent``, ``strutils.countLines``, ``strutils.replaceWord``. - Added ``system.slurp`` for easy resource embedding. - Added ``system.running`` for threads. - Added ``system.programResult``. - Added ``xmltree.innerText``. - Added ``os.isAbsolute``, ``os.dynLibFormat``, ``os.isRootDir``, ``os.parentDirs``. - Added ``parseutils.interpolatedFragments``. - Added ``macros.treeRepr``, ``macros.lispRepr``, ``macros.dumpTree``, ``macros.dumpLisp``, ``macros.parseExpr``, ``macros.parseStmt``, ``macros.getAst``. - Added ``locks`` core module for more flexible locking support. - Added ``irc`` module. - Added ``ftpclient`` module. - Added ``memfiles`` module. - Added ``subexes`` module. - Added ``critbits`` module. - Added ``asyncio`` module. - Added ``actors`` module. - Added ``algorithm`` module for generic ``sort``, ``reverse`` etc. operations. - Added ``osproc.startCmd``, ``osproc.execCmdEx``. - The ``osproc`` module now uses ``posix_spawn`` instead of ``fork`` and ``exec`` on Posix systems. Define the symbol ``useFork`` to revert to the old implementation. - Added ``intsets.assign``. - Added ``system.astToStr`` and ``system.rand``, ``system.doAssert``. - Added ``system.pairs`` for built-in types like arrays and strings. 2011-07-10 Version 0.8.12 released ================================== Bugfixes -------- - Bugfix: ``httpclient`` correct passes the path starting with ``/``. - Bugfixes for the ``htmlparser`` module. - Bugfix: ``pegs.find`` did not respect ``start`` parameter. - Bugfix: ``dialogs.ChooseFilesToOpen`` did not work if only one file is selected. - Bugfix: niminst: ``nimrod`` is not default dir for *every* project. - Bugfix: Multiple yield statements in iterators did not cause local vars to be copied. - Bugfix: The compiler does not emit very inaccurate floating point literals anymore. - Bugfix: Subclasses are taken into account for ``try except`` matching. - Bugfix: Generics and macros are more stable. There are still known bugs left though. - Bugfix: Generated type information for tuples was sometimes wrong, causing random crashes. - Lots of other bugfixes: Too many to list them all. Changes affecting backwards compatibility ----------------------------------------- - Operators starting with ``^`` are now right-associative and have the highest priority. - Deprecated ``os.getApplicationFilename``: Use ``os.getAppFilename`` instead. - Deprecated ``os.getApplicationDir``: Use ``os.getAppDir`` instead. - Deprecated ``system.copy``: Use ``substr`` or string slicing instead. - Changed and documented how generalized string literals work: The syntax ``module.re"abc"`` is now supported. - Changed the behaviour of ``strutils.%``, ``ropes.%`` if both notations ``$#`` and ``$i`` are involved. - The ``pegs`` and ``re`` modules distinguish between ``replace`` and ``replacef`` operations. - The pointer dereference operation ``p^`` is deprecated and might become ``^p`` in later versions or be dropped entirely since it is rarely used. Use the new notation ``p[]`` in the rare cases where you need to dereference a pointer explicitly. - ``system.readFile`` does not return ``nil`` anymore but raises an ``EIO`` exception instead. - Unsound co-/contravariance for procvars has been removed. Language Additions ------------------ - Source code filters are now documented. - Added the ``linearScanEnd``, ``unroll``, ``shallow`` pragmas. - Added ``emit`` pragma for direct code generator control. - Case statement branches support constant sets for programming convenience. - Tuple unpacking is not enforced in ``for`` loops anymore. - The compiler now supports array, sequence and string slicing. - A field in an ``enum`` may be given an explicit string representation. This yields more maintainable code than using a constant ``array[TMyEnum, string]`` mapping. - Indices in array literals may be explicitly given, enhancing readability: ``[enumValueA: "a", enumValueB: "b"]``. - Added thread support via the ``threads`` core module and the ``--threads:on`` command line switch. - The built-in iterators ``system.fields`` and ``system.fieldPairs`` can be used to iterate over any field of a tuple. With this mechanism operations like ``==`` and ``hash`` are lifted to tuples. - The slice ``..`` is now a first-class operator, allowing code like: ``x in 1000..100_000``. Compiler Additions ------------------ - The compiler supports IDEs via the new group of ``idetools`` command line options. - The *interactive mode* (REPL) has been improved and documented for the first time. - The compiler now might use hashing for string case statements depending on the number of string literals in the case statement. Library Additions ----------------- - Added ``lists`` module which contains generic linked lists. - Added ``sets`` module which contains generic hash sets. - Added ``tables`` module which contains generic hash tables. - Added ``queues`` module which contains generic sequence based queues. - Added ``intsets`` module which contains a specialized int set data type. - Added ``scgi`` module. - Added ``smtp`` module. - Added ``encodings`` module. - Added ``re.findAll``, ``pegs.findAll``. - Added ``os.findExe``. - Added ``parseutils.parseUntil`` and ``parseutils.parseWhile``. - Added ``strutils.align``, ``strutils.tokenize``, ``strutils.wordWrap``. - Pegs support a *captured search loop operator* ``{@}``. - Pegs support new built-ins: ``\letter``, ``\upper``, ``\lower``, ``\title``, ``\white``. - Pegs support the new built-in ``\skip`` operation. - Pegs support the ``$`` and ``^`` anchors. - Additional operations were added to the ``complex`` module. - Added ``strutils.formatFloat``, ``strutils.formatBiggestFloat``. - Added unary ``<`` for nice looking excluding upper bounds in ranges. - Added ``math.floor``. - Added ``system.reset`` and a version of ``system.open`` that returns a ``TFile`` and raises an exception in case of an error. - Added a wrapper for ``redis``. - Added a wrapper for ``0mq`` via the ``zmq`` module. - Added a wrapper for ``sphinx``. - Added ``system.newStringOfCap``. - Added ``system.raiseHook`` and ``system.outOfMemHook``. - Added ``system.writeFile``. - Added ``system.shallowCopy``. - ``system.echo`` is guaranteed to be thread-safe. - Added ``prelude`` include file for scripting convenience. - Added ``typeinfo`` core module for access to runtime type information. - Added ``marshal`` module for JSON serialization. 2010-10-20 Version 0.8.10 released ================================== Bugfixes -------- - Bugfix: Command line parsing on Windows and ``os.parseCmdLine`` now adheres to the same parsing rules as Microsoft's C/C++ startup code. - Bugfix: Passing a ``ref`` pointer to the untyped ``pointer`` type is invalid. - Bugfix: Updated ``keyval`` example. - Bugfix: ``system.splitChunk`` still contained code for debug output. - Bugfix: ``dialogs.ChooseFileToSave`` uses ``STOCK_SAVE`` instead of ``STOCK_OPEN`` for the GTK backend. - Bugfix: Various bugs concerning exception handling fixed. - Bugfix: ``low(somestring)`` crashed the compiler. - Bugfix: ``strutils.endsWith`` lacked range checking. - Bugfix: Better detection for AMD64 on Mac OS X. Changes affecting backwards compatibility ----------------------------------------- - Reversed parameter order for ``os.copyFile`` and ``os.moveFile``!!! - Procs not marked as ``procvar`` cannot only be passed to a procvar anymore, unless they are used in the same module. - Deprecated ``times.getStartMilsecs``: Use ``epochTime`` or ``cpuTime`` instead. - Removed ``system.OpenFile``. - Removed ``system.CloseFile``. - Removed ``strutils.replaceStr``. - Removed ``strutils.deleteStr``. - Removed ``strutils.splitLinesSeq``. - Removed ``strutils.splitSeq``. - Removed ``strutils.toString``. - If a DLL cannot be loaded (via the ``dynlib`` pragma) ``EInvalidLibrary`` is not raised anymore. Instead ``system.quit()`` is called. This is because raising an exception requires heap allocations. However the memory manager might be contained in the DLL that failed to load. - The ``re`` module (and the ``pcre`` wrapper) now depend on the pcre dll. Additions --------- - The ``{.compile: "file.c".}`` pragma uses a CRC check to see if the file needs to be recompiled. - Added ``system.reopen``. - Added ``system.getCurrentException``. - Added ``system.appType``. - Added ``system.compileOption``. - Added ``times.epochTime`` and ``times.cpuTime``. - Implemented explicit type arguments for generics. - Implemented ``{.size: sizeof(cint).}`` pragma for enum types. This is useful for interfacing with C. - Implemented ``{.pragma.}`` pragma for user defined pragmas. - Implemented ``{.extern.}`` pragma for better control of name mangling. - The ``importc`` and ``exportc`` pragmas support format strings: ``proc p{.exportc: "nim_$1".}`` exports ``p`` as ``nim_p``. This is useful for user defined pragmas. - The standard library can be built as a DLL. Generating DLLs has been improved. - Added ``expat`` module. - Added ``json`` module. - Added support for a *Tiny C* backend. Currently this only works on Linux. You need to bootstrap with ``-d:tinyc`` to enable Tiny C support. Nimrod can then execute code directly via ``nimrod run myfile``. 2010-03-14 Version 0.8.8 released ================================= Bugfixes -------- - The Posix version of ``os.copyFile`` has better error handling. - Fixed bug #502670 (underscores in identifiers). - Fixed a bug in the ``parsexml`` module concerning the parsing of ````. - Fixed a bug in the ``parsexml`` module concerning the parsing of enities like ``<XX``. - ``system.write(f: TFile, s: string)`` now works even if ``s`` contains binary zeros. - Fixed a bug in ``os.setFilePermissions`` for Windows. - An overloadable symbol can now have the same name as an imported module. - Fixed a serious bug in ``strutils.cmpIgnoreCase``. - Fixed ``unicode.toUTF8``. - The compiler now rejects ``'\n'`` (use ``"\n"`` instead). - ``times.getStartMilsecs()`` now works on Mac OS X. - Fixed a bug in ``pegs.match`` concerning start offsets. - Lots of other little bugfixes. Additions --------- - Added ``system.cstringArrayToSeq``. - Added ``system.lines(f: TFile)`` iterator. - Added ``system.delete``, ``system.del`` and ``system.insert`` for sequences. - Added ``system./`` for int. - Exported ``system.newException`` template. - Added ``cgi.decodeData(data: string): tuple[key, value: string]``. - Added ``strutils.insertSep``. - Added ``math.trunc``. - Added ``ropes`` module. - Added ``sockets`` module. - Added ``browsers`` module. - Added ``httpserver`` module. - Added ``httpclient`` module. - Added ``parseutils`` module. - Added ``unidecode`` module. - Added ``xmldom`` module. - Added ``xmldomparser`` module. - Added ``xmltree`` module. - Added ``xmlparser`` module. - Added ``htmlparser`` module. - Added ``re`` module. - Added ``graphics`` module. - Added ``colors`` module. - Many wrappers now do not contain redundant name prefixes (like ``GTK_``, ``lua``). The old wrappers are still available in ``lib/oldwrappers``. You can change your configuration file to use these. - Triple quoted strings allow for ``"`` in more contexts. - ``""`` within raw string literals stands for a single quotation mark. - Arguments to ``openArray`` parameters can be left out. - More extensive subscript operator overloading. (To be documented.) - The documentation generator supports the ``.. raw:: html`` directive. - The Pegs module supports back references via the notation ``$capture_index``. Changes affecting backwards compatibility ----------------------------------------- - Overloading of the subscript operator only works if the type does not provide a built-in one. - The search order for libraries which is affected by the ``path`` option has been reversed, so that the project's path is searched before the standard library's path. - The compiler does not include a Pascal parser for bootstrapping purposes any more. Instead there is a ``pas2nim`` tool that contains the old functionality. - The procs ``os.copyFile`` and ``os.moveFile`` have been deprecated temporarily, so that the compiler warns about their usage. Use them with named arguments only, because the parameter order will change the next version! - ``atomic`` and ``let`` are now keywords. - The ``\w`` character class for pegs now includes the digits ``'0'..'9'``. - Many wrappers now do not contain redundant name prefixes (like ``GTK_``, ``lua``) anymore. - Arguments to ``openArray`` parameters can be left out. 2009-12-21 Version 0.8.6 released ================================= The version jump from 0.8.2 to 0.8.6 acknowledges the fact that all development of the compiler is now done in Nimrod. Bugfixes -------- - The pragmas ``hint[X]:off`` and ``warning[X]:off`` now work. - Method call syntax for iterators works again (``for x in lines.split()``). - Fixed a typo in ``removeDir`` for POSIX that lead to an infinite recursion. - The compiler now checks that module filenames are valid identifiers. - Empty patterns for the ``dynlib`` pragma are now possible. - ``os.parseCmdLine`` returned wrong results for trailing whitespace. - Inconsequent tuple usage (using the same tuple with and without named fields) does not crash the code generator anymore. - A better error message is provided when the loading of a proc within a dynamic lib fails. Additions --------- - Added ``system.contains`` for open arrays. - The PEG module now supports the *search loop operator* ``@``. - Grammar/parser: ``SAD|IND`` is allowed before any kind of closing bracket. This allows for more flexible source code formating. - The compiler now uses a *bind* table for symbol lookup within a ``bind`` context. (See ``_ for details.) - ``discard """my long comment"""`` is now optimized away. - New ``--floatChecks: on|off`` switches and pragmas for better debugging of floating point operations. (See ``_ for details.) - The manual has been improved. (Many thanks to Philippe Lhoste!) Changes affecting backwards compatibility ----------------------------------------- - The compiler does not skip the linking step anymore even if no file has changed. - ``os.splitFile(".xyz")`` now returns ``("", ".xyz", "")`` instead of ``("", "", ".xyz")``. So filenames starting with a dot are handled differently. - ``strutils.split(s: string, seps: set[char])`` never yields the empty string anymore. This behaviour is probably more appropriate for whitespace splitting. - The compiler now stops after the ``--version`` command line switch. - Removed support for enum inheritance in the parser; enum inheritance has never been documented anyway. - The ``msg`` field of ``system.E_base`` has now the type ``string``, instead of ``cstring``. This improves memory safety. 2009-10-21 Version 0.8.2 released ================================= 2009-09-12 Version 0.8.0 released ================================= 2009-06-08 Version 0.7.10 released ================================== 2009-05-08 Version 0.7.8 released ================================= 2009-04-22 Version 0.7.6 released ================================= 2008-11-16 Version 0.7.0 released ================================= 2008-08-22 Version 0.6.0 released ================================= Nimrod version 0.6.0 has been released! **This is the first version of the compiler that is able to compile itself!**