ats2-postiats-0.0.5:
Date: January 15, 2014
This is the fifth release of ATS2, the successor of the ATS
programming language. The compiler for ATS2 is given the name
ATS/Positats, ATS2/Postiats or simply Postiats.
The official website for ATS is:
http://www.ats-lang.org
ATS-Postiats is hosted at github:
https://github.com/githwxi/ATS-Postiats
Major releases of ATS2 are available at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ats2-lang/
Major releases of external packages for ATS2 are available at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ats2-lang-contrib/
Here is a list of major additions and changes since the last release:
1. Fixing a glitch in initializing flat boxed-singleton records
(see doc/BUGS/bug-2013-11-29)
2. Adding support for jsonizing level-2 syntax trees; this is planned
for support tasks like meta-programming, constraint-exporting, etc.
3. Adding support for exporting constraints gathered during typechecking
(command-line flag for this feature: --constraint-export)
4. Fixing bug-2013-12-04 (erroneous compilation of pattern matching)
5. Adding a direct API for the json-c package
6. Adding a direct API for the jansson package
7. Adding a minimal API for the pcre package
8. Adding support for 'static' dynamic constant declarations:
static fun foo (...): res // this one is equivalent to the next one
extern fun foo (...): res = "sta#" // it is equivalent to the above one
9. Improving support for exporting ATS-types to C
10. Requiring that each declared toplevel function be envless; closures
need to be declared as values.
11. Supporting the flag -CSignore for patscc to ignore constraint-solving.
Please only use it with proper justification!