6.0.25
'find', 'replace' and 'search' now have an option for case insensitive
search, updated source and manual
6.0.26 - 6.0.27 - 11:34 AM 4/4/99
'trace' got stuck in executeCommandline() in traceExit() because an empty
fgets() in LINUX still has a '\n'
6.0.27 - 6.0.28 - 6:30 PM 4/6/99
'import' now returns primitve address
'define' now also works like (define x y) ; as in SCHEME
'char' now defaults to 0 on offset and returns unsigned int
new 'mod' floating point modular function
new 'abs' floating point absolute value function
new 'trim' trims spaces or characters both sides
6.0.28 - 6.0.29
'filter' new primitive
6.0.29 - 6.0.30
'dump' now displays address of cell
'make-dir' mode parameter now optional defaults to 493 = drwxr-xr-x
6.0.30 - 6.0.31
fixed trim, which had all kinds of problems
new 'difference' returns set difference of two lists
new 'intersect' resturns set intersection of two lists
new 'unique' returns unique set from list (duplicates removed)
when comparing lambda expressions, now state lists also get compared
6.0.31 - 6.0.33
'match' now also works on list expressions, wildcard symbols
can occur on different nesting levels.
6.0.33 - 6.0.34 Released on www.newlisp.org
in 'substring' the length parameter is now optional
math exception showed wrong error message
tty setup now only when tty detected else supress buffering
for usage with 'socker'
6.0.33 - 6.0.35 4/20/2000
inlined cleanupResults() in evaluateExpression() ca. 4% speedup !
took out all #pragma statements
took out termio stuff, works better without
new functions read-file, write-file
new functions read-process, write-process
new function error-text
6.035 - 6.0.36 4/21/2000
'char' now also can take a number as an argument converting it to a
string of one character:
(char 65) => "A"
(char "A") => 65
'integer' and 'float' now return 'nil' if the string passed does
not start with a number digit or +/-
strings can now encode characters in the form \nnn where nnn
is a 3 digit decimal (leading 0' if less 100) e.g.:
"\065\066\067" => "ABC"
6.036 - 6.039 4/28/2000
added 'chop', 'explode', 'get-float', 'starts-with', 'ends-with'
added 'random' 'normal'
renamed 'get-number' to 'get-integer'
added script for httpd webserver demon
6.039 - 6.043
'symbol' now takes optional context argument
'symbols' now gives error message if symbol args is not context
eliminated 'sourcePtr' which wasn't used anyway, introduced
'sourceLine' for keeping track of line-numbers in error messages
added 'encrypt' for one-time-pad encryption/decryption
6.043 - 6.044
speedup in deleteList() and copyList()
6.044 - 6.045
took out 'sourceLine', too much confusing situtations which are
unresolvable. 'eval-string' now does multiple expressions
6.045 - 6.048
put back pushResultFlag, 'eval' needed it.
fixed bug in 'substring' for trailing 0's, changed tokeString to
resemble split() and taking separators > 1 char.
This also changes pack/unpack in parsePackFormat() to take care of
more than one space between formats.
After reset and execution of 'error-event' errorReg now set to 0.
6.048 - 6.049
took out executeSymbolParams modifying executeParams for optional arg
'reset' now throws 'user reset - no error' - error, so it can be handled as
a non-error in user defined error handlers, also takes now optional
symbol for 'resetEvent to be exuted after errorEvent.
6.049 - 6.051
'reset' now takes optional third parameter for stacksize. So the
syntax for reset is nor (reset [resetEventSymbol] [stacksize])
6.051 - 6.052
no length limitiation anymore for printing strings to the console
'replace-nth' new primitive
6.052 - 6.054 5/19/2000
'let' new primitive like in other Lisp but dynamically scoped
'seed' new primitive seeds random generator for rand, random, normal
now feature complete for 6.1 release
6.054 - 6.055 5/20/2000
fixed memory leek in varPrintf()
'integer' and 'float' now take optional thirsd parameter for default
return value if string cannot be parsed.
6.055 - 6.056
fixed bug in 'symbol' which would not overwrite symbols in MAIN for
symbols in other contexts so (symbol "set" 'MyContext) now works
creating a symbol 'set in MyContext.
6.056 - 6.059 5/29/2000
improved pretty printing for 'let', which takes now the same flag
as 'cond'. Improved httpd script, now sends http header for each
file.
6.059 - 6.060 5/29/2000
httpd did fail on POST on some browsers now 'upper-case' when matching
'content-length'. Alos fixed in manuual
6.060 - 6.0.61
changed 'parse' so it parses a max token length of 2048 (256 previous)
this was already changed erarlier on the Win32 versions.
The read-line limit of 16384 should be changed at some point to infinite
similar to the print buffer. At the moment cgi vi std/IO is limited by
read-line to forms no bigger than 16384.
6.0.61 - 6.0.62
varPrintf was still limited. MAX_PRINT_LEN changed to size.
6.0.62 - 6.0.63
'integer' now parses also hex strings eg: (integer "0xFF") => 255
'write-line' now retuenw nil on file errors
6.0.63 - 6.0.64
5% speedup introducing cell type masks
6.0.64 - 6.0.65
1% speedup taking out symbol in evaluateExpression
6.0.65 - 6.0.67
new 'count' counts elements of one list in another list
6.0.67 - 6.0.68
fixed error in 'reverse'
6.0.68 - 6.0.69
'parse' now without size limitations in tokens when using breakstr argument.
6.0.69 - 6.0.70
'string' now without size limitations of printing in string
6.0.69 - 6.0/71
'read-line' now without size limitations
6.0.71 - 6.0.72
'for' fixed bug when from and to where equal would run forever
6.0.72 - 6.0.73
'putenv' didn't work, fixed
6.0.73 - 6.0.75
problem with ebaluateLambda when passing (set 'p ...) to (foo p) as an argument
for parameter p.
6.0.75 - 6.0.76
additional functions: prob-z prob-chi2 and crit-chi2. (for ...) no works with
floating point numbers. Additional module xml.lsp
6.0.76 - 6.0.77
additional function: join. Additional module mail.lsp
additional function: sequence
6.0.77 - 6.0.79
additional functions: xml-parse, xml-error
fixed buffer overflow bug in varPrintf to string device (function 'string)
6.0.79 -> 6.1.0
new function println
6.1.14 documentation
6.1.0 -> 6.1.1
new function fft and ifft
6.1.15 documentation
6.1.1 -> 6.1.2
the length parameter in 'sublist' is now optional (assumes all)
6.1.2 -> 6.1.3
fixed default for 'true' in 'case'
6.1.3 -> 6.1.4
new function 'swap' for swapping elements in a list
6.1.4 -> 6.1.5
new function 'read-url' for reading pages/files via http
revision of httpd script more RFC compliant
6.1.5 -> 6.1.6
'read-url' nl-web.c now handles proxy's if HTTP_PROXY is set to proxy URL
new functions 'collect'and 'select' for selecting multiple elements from a
list
6.1.6 -> 6.1.7 Release
'rand' now takes an optional second parameter to return a list of random
numbers (similar to 'random' and 'normal')
many formatting changes in manual.
================================================================================
6.1.7exp -> experimental '-p port' mode
6.1.7 -> 6.1.8
fixed bug in error event handling when error==0
6.1.8 -> 6.1.9
trace now is a source level debugger, similar in funcitonality to the Win32
version, but for a character console.
linking now encrypted, new functions 'betai' and 'gammaln'
6.1.9 -> 6.1.10
fixed bug which could affect parsing \xxx in getToken() where isdigit(x)
'prob-chi2' now more precise using gammap(),
new functions 'crit-z', 'beta' and 'gammai'
6.1.10 -> 6.1.11
new 'debug-highlight' for setting pre and post string in debugger
highlighting. Eliminated example httpget because 'read-url' does
the same.
6.1.12 -> 6.1.12
'swap' now treats negative values as the last element, consistent
with other functions, 'read-url' fix in error message text
init.lsp, mysql.lsp etc have moved to /usr/local/newlisp
6.1.12 -> 6.1.15
'read-url' now handles also redirects
6.1.15 -> 6.1.16
fixed bug in trace mode, trace stopped at all args evals in function
calls. Still stops and shows result for each 'map', which is ok, but
must be documented. Improved subroutines for handling POP3 and SMTP mail.
6.1.16 -> 6.1.17
new matrix functions 'invert', 'multiply', 'transpose'
6.1.17 -> 6.1.18
fixed dimension problem in transpose
6.1.18 - > 6.1.19
fixed missing error text for 'singular matrix' in invert
6.1.19 -> 6.1.20
ifft didn't normalize right when N not a power of 2
evaluateLambda() rewritten to store statics in a way that
anonymous lambda expressions with static data can be stored
this also gave a general speed up of about 5%.
6.1.20p2
(nth -1 lst) now returns the last element instead of nil. This
is consisten with other functions
6.1.20p4
eliminated optional parameters in reset, because never worked right.
instead the error-event can be used for code after reset and the stack
size can now be specified on the command line.
6.1.20p5
eliminated get-state and set-state as primitves, they are now written
in newLISP and part of the initialization file /usr/local/newlisp/init.lsp
6.1.20p6
new function 'regex for POSIX 1003.2 regular expressions (GNU library)
ifdef'ed readline, only works in CYGWIN, cannot figure unresolved 'tputs()' etc in
libreadline.so in LINUX, seems not to see libcurses?
6.1.20p7
cleanup makefile for different features NANOSLEEP, READLINE, REGEX
cleanup fft
took out replace-match, new function index
6.1.20p8
cleanup regex, additions changes in manual
6.1.20 -> 6.3.pre1
READLINE finally working on Mandrake missing link to 'libtermcap.so'
lots of manual changes
6.3.pre2
preparing to replace simple binary tree for symbols woth RB balanced tree
6.3.pre4
running RB balanced tree code
6.3.pre5
fixed bug in 'symbols for context and 'delete for context
6.3.pre6
changed httpd CHANGES
===============================================================================
6.3 Release
time-of-day new function
6.3.01
a fix for 'regex' in the CYGWIN version sent in by Steve Adams
6.3.02
additional optional parameter in 'eval-string'
streamlining code in nl-web.c, reformatting manual so it is easier converted
to PDF
6.3.04
new -p commandline parameter for TCP/IP port mode of newLISP.
Fixed format for default data type (will treat as string),
also format will permit now unlimeted size of the formatted
output (was 2047 bytes).
6.3.05
cleanup -p with trace for rt/lf translation
===============================================================================
6.3.06 Release July 8th, 2001
optional parameter 'nil in 'eval for silent evaluation evaulates without return
value and prompt on the console, needed for Tcl/Tk integration
6.3.07 Release
a new function 'debug (shortcut fr using trace) and various bugfixes in the
trace/debug functions. '{' and '}' characters are allowed as string delimiters
but only on the outer level, they get replaced by the parser. This allows
writing 'nicer' source for HTML and TK stuff.
6.3.08
regex now also returns sub expressions. further changes in debugger to accomodate
remote TclTk controlled debugging: (q)uit now quits execution, (c)ontinue stops
debugging but continues execution.
===============================================================================
6.3.09 Release July 16th, 2001
string now can take more than one parameters, like concat but works on different
data types
6.3.10
added symbol count to 'sys-info'
added ERR: string in error message when in trace for TclTk frontend
6.3.11
new function 'dotree' to iterate thrugh symbol trees, usefull for simulating
arrays and hashes
===============================================================================
6.3.12 Release July 30th, 2001
new function 'catch' for catching errors when evaluating expressions
fixed bug in net-connect when trying to connect to dead port
===============================================================================
6.3.14 Release August 2nd, 2001
changes in newlisp_manual.html and newlisp-tk.html
cleanup and improvment of qa file
fixed crash-bug in markReferences and saveSymbol when copying contexts
function 'args' now works also for lambda, no symbol param necessary anymore
===============================================================================
6.3.15 Release September 3rd, 2001
xml-parse now accepts empty atribute value strings e.g.:
net-lookup now works in both directions: ip->name and name->ip
===============================================================================
6.3.16 Release September 6th, 2001
float division by 0.0 now yields 'Inf', as specified by IEE 754. Before 6.3.16
it would couse a Math exception. Now all compare operations with NaN return 'nil'.
new functions 'floor' and 'ceil' and 'NaN?'.
Ctrl-D will now longer crash but exit newLISP
More LSB compliance in install directories used: now /usr/share/newlisp
instead of old /usr/local/newlisp
===============================================================================
6.3.17 Release September 9th, 2001
fixed a memory leak in 'regex'. The leak could not be fixed in the CYGWIN
version which uses regexp !
6.3.18
fixed rounding problem in 'sequence', Ctrl-D will not exit but only do newline
if at beginning of line, else it will behave as expected under readline, to exit
newLISP with one keystoke use Ctrl-C instead.
output cleanup in error-text and error-event
better standard behaviour of 'cond' when action clause is missing
new function 'series' for generating geometric sequences.
new function 'rotate' for rotating lists
6.3.20 Release October 22nd, 2001
bug fix in xml-parse when parsing closing tags without opening tags
bug fix memory leak in catch and eval-string uder error conditions
about 30% speedup removing copyCell/pushResult in: inc set define
manual changes and additions.
tookout net-cleanup in network examples
6.3.21p1
bug fix in 'char' when using with floats
'integer' now also takes floats converting them into integer
also now translates "055" to 45 taking it as an octal number,
which is consistend now with the parser.
'float' now also takes integeres converting into floats
6.3.21p2
eliminated symbol->type in SYMBOL typdef, which reduces symbol memory by from 36 to 32 byte
fixed a bug where sometimes newlisp wouldn't exit after tk-frontend exited
===============================================================================
6.3.21 Release November 13th, 2001
MAX_ERROR_NUMBER was to high, parenthesis count wasn't reset when evalCatchFlag
6.3.22
fixed potential bug in join with memory intialization
fixed problem parsing URL when redirection in 'read-url'
'get-url/read-url' now also handles 205 and 307 return codes
'get-url/read-url' now always only returns header portion if "header" option is specified
new -d demon mode, like -p but newLISP stays in memory to accept a new connection
new function 'put-url' for HTTP PUT method
new function 'post-url' for HTTP POST method
===============================================================================
6.3.23 Release January 6th, 2002
new function 'binomial'
6.3.24
'exit' now closes net work connection when running in '-d' demon mode.
new function 'now' returns detailed date/time info: (y m d h m s us dy dw)
new function 'date-value' converts date/time into seconds since 1970-1-1
new financial functions 'pmt', 'nper', 'pv', 'fv', 'npv'
bug fix in 'map' which would crash when last arg was not a list (as it should be)
replaced 'MySQL:close' with 'MySQL:close-db' to avoid overwriting of close in MAIN in mysql.lsp
===============================================================================
6.4.00 Release March 20th, 2002
inclusion of BWidget set in the Win32 tk v 0.80 distibution, many manual changes
6.4.1
main-args now returns path of program as first list member
get-url "debug" option now can be specified together with "header" option
post-url content-type now is optional and defaults to "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
added closing channel in get-url
fixed bug in 'join', which could crash on an empty list
httpd, finger and gettime changes for new 'main-args'
balloon help in newlisp-tk v. 081
new '(tk-args)' when running Tcl/Tk frontend returns newlisp-tk commandline args
several changes in stat.lsp/plot directing temporal files to /tmp
fixed potential crash bug in 'dotree'
Win32 installer now puts desktop icon
===============================================================================
6.4.2 Release April 22nd, 2002
'format' now for multiple args
6.4.3 development release
'parse' now correctly does handles trailing separator by returning an empty token ""
6.4.4
buffer limit in vsnprintf() was not handled correctly, putting a space limitation
on 'string' (16k), 'format' (2k) and 'C' functions depending on varPrintf(),
fixed potential buffer overflow in writeStreamStr().
'tranpose' did not check for matrix type.
experimental function 'throw'
6.4.5 Development release
starts-with, ends-with
now are working type polymorph on strings and lists
rotate now takes negative numbers for left rotation
rearranged lambda evaluation (eval args before saving environment),
which causes 6% speed improvements
'args' only available in define-macro (again as before 6.3.14)
changed 'if', 'unless', 'while', 'until' for less CPU stack requirements
6.4.6
'nth', 'first', 'last', 'rest'
now are working type polymorph on strings and lists
'cons' works now correctly on 1 arg (who cares? -> consistency proof)
potenial cell-memory leak on error in 'apply'
6.4.7 Development release
improved syntax for statics environment list as assoc list:
(define (foo a b c ((x 1) (y 2) (z 3))) ....)
to retrieve statics environment just do:
(last (first foo) => ((x 1) (y 2) (z 3))
also improves speed of ststic processing by about 10%
===============================================================================
6.4.8 Release May 16, 2002
empty? now works on strings
fix for 'cons' when lambda expr is second argument
fix for (rest "") which now returns ""
fix for (first "") now returns nil
purelisp.lsp for prooving consistency
fix for link.lsp on CYGWIN
6.4.9 Development release May 21st, 2002
'nil' as a symbol was not always treated as nil value constant
(push exp lst) now works even if lst does not contain a list
in that case old contents of lst gets deleted and initialized
with () before pushing exp, this makes initialization of lists
to '() before pushing on it unnecessary.
'time' now works as a timer returning mseconds needed to evaluate
this is also mor compatible how other Lisp's define 'time'
an expression, for old funcitonality of 'time' use (apply date-value (now))
'sort' now takes an optional parameter '< or '> for ascending/descending
also about 30% speedup, like in: (sort myList '>)
6.4.10 Development release May 21st, 2002
correct treatment of symbol 'nil in 'and' and 'or'
eliminated orSymbol reference in soirce code
speedup parsing source
dump with parameter now returns list (cellAdress, cellType, cellNext, cellAux, cellContents)
stepsize in 'for' 'sequence' always forced to positive
6.4.11
'push' in its new form did not respect 'nil and 'true
new error message when trying to set/define/push on 'nil, 'true or context
speedup in multiple compares in nl-math.c
speedup in upper-case, lower-case
speedup in get-char, get-string, get-integer and get-float
6.4.12
boolean types and symbols are equal
another speed improvement in lambad and expression evaluation
over all speed improvement over 6.4.8 now about 5-10% depending
on expression mix.
local iterator symbols are now handled on environment stack for
better error recovery.
new chapter "Data structure objects in lists" in docs and
many little doc changes.
===============================================================================
6.5.0 Release May 28th, 2002
no changes related to newlisp itself except for versioning
changes in httpd (see httpd file)
changes in newlisp-IDE for changes in httpd and changes for date display
6.5.1
compiles with -Wall -pedantic -Wno-uninitialized -O2
-Wall -pedantic for better portability
-Wno-uninitialized to suppress 'fork' 'longjmp' warning in -O2
-O2 does ~25% speed and size improvement!
'let' did not handle empty parameter lists and now double fast
6.5.2 development release June 3rd
'concat' is deprecated 'append' doubles functionality of 'concat'
new individual makefiles for making newLISP on different platforms without
the need to tweak makefiles.
6.5.4
'find', 'replace' and file 'search' now can do Regular Expressions.
Regular Expressions are not dependend any more on the C-library
on the OS platform used, instead PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions)
is used on all platforms and the source is contained in the distribution.
Additions to INSTALL file about PCRE and localization of newLISP.
6.5.5
fix for 'replace' in regex mode
6.5.5 -> 6.5.7
changes in win32.lsp and makefile_win32
eliminated file: nl-importDM.c was already merged
new chapter 'Lambda expressions in newLISP' in newlisp_manual.html
===============================================================================
6.5.8 Released version (functionally equal to 6.5.7) June 13th 2002
#ifdef NOIMPORT instead of MAC_OSC in evaluateExpression()
spelling stuff in newlisp_manual.html
6.5.10
- incorporated nl-web.c into native win32 version to make work get-url, post-url
and put-url. Server modes -p and -d now are working too in native win32 version.
- newlisp-tk.tcl changed to work with win32 because read-line/write-line don't
work on sockets in win32.
- writeStramChar() now works also on binary streams
- newlisp-tk.tcl changed to work on remote connection over the internet.
Shows acceptable speed on dial-up (old newlisp-tk.conf should be deleted)
- 'reload last' button in newlisp-tk GUI
- dependency fix in makefile_win32
6.5.11
- moved to Borlanc C++ v5.5 compiler, gives faster and smaller executable than
Digital Mars compiler previously used. Now all functions of the Linux version
also work in the Win32 version.
6.5.12
- changes in newlisp-tk.tcl for faster performance on remote and working
reliable with win32 version. Old newlisp-tk.conf should be deleted.
Win-tk version can now be distributed without CYGWIN DLLs using the
Borland 'C' Win32 compile.
6.5.13
- fixed problem in 'net-receive', which was introduced in 6.5.10
httpd now works fine with win32 compile (with change in line 147 of httpd)
- send() in net-send and win32_fprintf() now performs check and resend
6.5.14
- reintroduced writeStreamChar in 'net-receive', writeStreamChar did not zero buffer
- debug was broken with TK because of missing redefine of fgets() in nl-debug.c
6.5.15
- net-close wasn't working in win32 version, which gave problems in cgi in httpd
- new newlisp-IDE-1.3.tgz with fixes for LF -> RET/LF translation which was happening
in win32 pipes
6.5.16
- doc changes
- took out again size-check and resend in netSend() and win32_fprintf() as it is
not relevant in blocking sockets
- mail.lsp was broken because of change how optional parameter in 'find' works
- 'read-process' and 'write-process' collapsed to 'exec'
- match for lists now behaves like match for string returning a list of matches
ie. (match '(I * you) '(I love you)) => (I (love) you)
this allows easier substituting of star/* patterns in pattern matches in chat
robots
6.5.17
- new option# parameter in 'xml-parse'
(a) option# 1 to surpress white-space TEXT fields (for data XMLs)
(b) option# 2 to surpress empty attribute tags (for tags which never have attributes)
(c) option# 4 to surpress comments
(d) option# 8 to tanslate tag names into symbols
- new 'xml-type-tags' for definig alternative tags for "ELEMENT", "CDATA", "COMMENT"
and "ELEMENT". Instead symbol can be defined or nil can be specified to surpress
the type tag completely.
- the newlisp-tk_win32 version now comes with the win32 native compile
- fixed bug in 'string', which was not reentrant
===============================================================================
6.5.18 Release August 3, 2002
- fixed stream problem in 'eval-string' in Win32
- fixed openStrStream, didn't initialize stream->handle to 0
6.5.19
- doc changes, renamed mail.lsp to pop3.lsp, sendmail.lsp to smtp.lsp
- memory initialization in p_format()
6.5.20
- fixed p_format again, vsnprintf() doesn't include null-char in return count
as advertised in GNU docs
- doc changes
6.5.21
- 'explode' now also works on binary contents
- 'file-info' modification and creation time where added
- can now specify \000 in string constants
- in imported function now up to 10 parameters (previous 8)
- odbc.lsp module for ODBC communications
6.5.22
- comparing symbols now includes the context name in their comparison
- 'name' new function to extract the name of a symbol as astring without the context
- milli second resolution in 'time-of-day', 'now' and 'time' in Win32
- newlisp_manual.book for conversion html->pdf with HTMLDOC http://www.easysw.com
this makes a printable manual. Print double sided then cut 8.0 x 9 inch, which is
2 from the bottom and 0.5 from the right side when printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper;
then spiral bind (thin round spirals, not the flat once).
- post-url was never working on win32 becuase of missing win32_fwrite
===============================================================================
6.5.23 ----------- released September 17, 2002
- httpd fix for empty query string
- newlisp-IDE-1.6.tgz now saves files up to 10k, changed POST encoding to multi part
6.5.24
- quote wil not evaluate it's argument anymore, but work like Scheme or Common Lisp
- in newlisp-tk the lisp file estension can now be configured in newlisp-tk.config
- in Win32 now line termination gets written as RT-LF,
change also in newlisp-tk.tcl when filling editbox
- net-read-line now protected from deletion in newlisp-tk browser
- prettyPrint will never put newline after quote
- fixed prettyPrint bug when printing empty prettyPrint constructs (while, dotimes etc)
6.5.25
- quote fixed again (quoted twice)
6.5.26
- doc fixes
- date crashed on values resulting in dates before 1970-Jan-1 00:00:00
in the Win32 version. In Win32 now minimum value for date is 86400,
which is safely on or after 1970-Jan-1 00:00:00 for all time zones
- NaN can now be put into a variable for comparison
- division by zero now causes a math exception also in floats (previously
inf was returned in cygwin/Unix version and Win32 crashed)
- in mixed arithmetik using integer operators NaN is taken as 0
6.5.27
- new function 'constant' to protect symbol contents from changing
- fixed bug in newlisp-tk.tcl which was introduced after 6.5.23
which caused problems in Mouse.lsp (_result -> result in 'tk')
- 'div' with NaN value raised exception/crashed in Win32, now
returns NaN
- DOMAIN error messages in the Win32 versions are now silenced
6.5.28
- doc changes
- new function 'setq', both 'set' and 'setq' and now can take multiple args
note that old init.lsp should be updated because of macro for 'setq'
- new option number 16 in xml-parse for generating SXML output
- 7.0.0 pre release
- bug fix for 'string', suppresses all pretty-print formatting
- better error reporting on pop3.lsp and smtp.lsp with debug-flag true
===============================================================================
- 7.0.1 release October 24, 2002
merged caveGuy's pop3.lsp mail-id improvements
- 7.0.2
- readLineStream was not initizlized during program startup and caused
'current-line' to crash if not used after a 'read-line'
- direct execution mode with new command line option -e
- in SXML parsing attribute tags where left strings instead of symbols
- 'find' now also does regex when looking up a string in list of strings
- 7.0.3
- example in newLISP for put.cgi in newlisp_manual.html
- include cgi.lsp in distribution
- the header in the SMTP interface smtp.lsp was not finished with empty line
- 'save now can save multiple contexts and/or symbols at once
- 'open now has a "append" or "a" option
===============================================================================
- 7.0.4 release February 2, 2003
replace now gives error instead of returning 'nil when second arg not
list or string
new primitive 'lookup' works like assoc with extracting parameter
fixed bug in pop3.lsp
moved to version 5.4 of Freewrap for making the newlisp-tk.exe, which
is now doubled in size because 5.4 doesn't compress anymore (see Freewrap
docs).
- 7.0.5
Manual improvements in for correct conversion with HTML2DOC
additional hour offset parameter in 'now' and 'date'
fixed bug in dotree which caused crashes on Windows
'context', 'dotree' and 'symbols' now accept unquoted
symbol if the symbols is a context.
contexts can be deleted again when empty
The newlisp-tk Windows version is now wrapped with freewrap v.5.5
and based on Tcl/Tk version 8.4.1 and BWidget v.1.6
newlisp-tk.tcl has been changed for better usage of 'context'
- 7.1.0-rc1
PCRE Perl Compatible Regular Expression support updated to version 4.3
in 'replace' now replacement pattern with back references and as
lisp expression. Sub expressions are stored in variable $1, $2 ... etc.
$0 contains the whole pattern found. These variables are also filled
in 'regex' 'find' (all functions doing regular expressions).
The new implementation of 'replace' is also faster (about 15%).
example:
(replace "%([0-9A-F][0-9A-F])" str (char (integer(append "0x" $1))) 1)
This will do URL translation i.e.: "xxx%41xxx%42" -> "xxxAxxxB".
- 7.1.0-rc2
'parse' can take regular expressions in sepearator when additional
options parameter is defined (as in find, replace)
===============================================================================
- 7.1.0 Release August 28, 2003
'search' like 'find' and 'replace' also accepts regular expression
when extra options parameter is given.
[text] and [/text] can be used as string limiters for large text regions
i.e. for HTML in cgi pages written with newLISP. Text limited this way
stays completely unprocessed and contain any characters.
The function 'symbol' accepts unquoted symbol for context parameter
(like 'dotree', 'context', 'symbols')
PCRE Perl Compatible Regular Expression support updated to version 4.4
extensive manual changes formatting and PDF release
- 7.1.1
surpression of some compiler warnings in Mac OSX compile
makefile for linux has strip turned on and readline support
was not the default
- 7.1.2
third parameter in 'symbol' for supression of symbol creation, if
not found; return 'nil instead.
HTML manual had formatting error, which caused all after 'regex'
to be in curier.
===============================================================================
- 7.1.3 release September 3, 2003
[text]...[/text] caused problems in TCP/IP communications
===============================================================================
- 7.1.4 release September 6, 2003
uninitialized memory in writeStreamStr() caused problems when
running newlisp-tk and transferring bigger string buffers.
win32_fprintf() did not work right for buffers > 2048, which
caused problems in browsing bigger buffers in newLISP-tk.
- 7.1.6
new function 'process' for launching independent child processes
(will not block), new function 'pipe' for use with child processes.
'if' now accepts multiple condition-exp pairs and then works like a
cond without parenthesis around condition-value. 'if' with
condition-exp-exp or condition-exp still works like before.
new 'net-send-udp' and 'net-receive-udp' for UDP communications
without need of net-listen,net-accept and net-connect.
On Mac OSX 'import' is now enabled using to addtional files
osx-dlfcn.n/h for compiling. This import is for '.dylib'
libaries.
'append' now also can append binary strings (i.e. containing 0's)
'joint' now also can joint binary strings (including the joint string)
if the length of a sublist in slice is 0 then sice returns the empty
list '(), previously returned nil. This is more consistent with the
behavior of slice on strings and at the end of lists.
'write-buffer' now acepts both: a symbol or a string
'send' now accepts both: a symbol or a string
'symbol' pretended to create a symbol although context would not exist
error messages now include the offending expression/parameter which
caused the error.
- 7.1.7
speedup in UDP communications (no session registration)
memory leak fixed in 'net-receive-udp'
'first' of an empty string now returns an empty string, previously nil
improved cgi.lsp
'reverse' now works on strings
- 7.1.8
'throw' now is documented (actually happened in 7.1.7)
'collect' and 'select' now also work on strings
i.e: (collect "2001-09-20" 5 6 8 9 0 1 2 3) => "09202001"
'slice' couldn't slice lambda's
memory leak in searchBufferRegex() affecting 'find' and 'replace' was fixed
- 7.1.9
'set' with multiple args had a cell memory leak
'transpose' had a memory leak
- 7.1.10
logfile support for remote mode -p and -d with '-l logfilename'
fixed bug in pretty print on command line
fixed bug in 'save', which went into a loop when saving symbols containing
contexts
- 7.1.12
logfile with string -L options also logs remote command line input
'fft' and 'ifft' now can take plain numbers instead of complex numbers
or a mixture of both
regular expression speedup 5 to 50% by chaching the search pattern
and avoiding recompile, speedup greatly depends on complexity of
pattern relatively to the length of the search string
rearranged functions in source files to make newlisp.c more manageable
eliminated various unecessary typedefs
Sun SOLARIS is now supported (not much tested though)
operating system number in last position of 'sys-info'
linux 1, bsd 2, osx 3, solaris 4, cygwin 5, win32 6
strings containig zeros are now displayed correctly i.e.
(pack "c c c" 0 1 2 3) => "\000\001\002\003"
- 7.1.14
redundancy in printString() eliminated
memory leak in 'parse' with regex fixed
the userdefined function for an error is now reported
overall speedup since 7104 of about 5%
commented out undocumented function 'symbol-dump'
===============================================================================
- 7.2.0 is 7.1.14 released October 2nd, 2003
- 7.2.1
moved check for symbol type of lambdaFunc to errorProc for efficiency
cleanup of unecessary defines in newlisp.h
defined 'vasprintf()' to take advantage of vasprintf() where available
'format' now checks for correct number of arguments and well formed
format string, it should not crash anymore on mismatch of number
and type of parameters
newLISP-tk is now version 1.0 with changes for multiline 'tk' statements
(stements containing line-breaks), this allows sending bigger Tcl/Tk
code portions in one 'tk' statement
- 7.2.2
force creation of $0, $1 ... in MAIN even when used in different context
for the first time
supress $0, $1 ... in newlisp-tk frontend in variable listbox
(the $ would confuse tk)
- 7.2.3
replace-assoc now also uses the system variable $0 for the old
list, which can be reused in the replacement expression, i.e:
(set 'lst '((a 1)(b 2)(c 3)))
(replace-assoc 'b lst (list 'b (+ 1 (last $0))))
lst => ((a 1)(b 3)(c 3))
replace-nth now also uses the system variable $0 for the old element, i.e:
(set 'lst '(1 2 3 4))
(replace-nth 1 lst (+ $0 1))
lst => '(1 3 3 4)
added new module 'ftp.lsp' for get/put ftp transfers
updated module smtp.lsp and program spam-filter
symbols set with 'constant' now also gets saved with 'constant'
introduced getContext() for code savings
added error message in 'import' for win32
eliminated win32.cmd
many documentation changes/fixes, rewritten introduction
added chapter about deprecated functions
changes in set/define functions for better protection and
error messages of protected symbols
full stack trace on error messages
- 7.2.4
replace-assoc now returns the changed list instead of the old
association found (which is now in $0)
replace-nth now return the changed list instead of the old
expression found (which is now in $0)
now checks also for missing last argument
replace now returns changed list or string
for changed list count of replacements in $0
count for string replacements is not available any more
(could be handled in replacement expression)
now checks also for missing last argument
remove now returns the changed list
and the number of removed elements in $0
- 7.2.5
chop now also works on lists
coding improvements in slice/sublist() and substring()
newlisp-tk 1.02 now on Linux tmp directory is in the home
directory of the user running newlisp-tk
replace with expression in replacement would overflow CPU stack
after 2048 replacements, now no limit
cgi.lsp v.1.2 now lives in a context CGI for better isolation
httpd v.3.0 with bugfixes for big POST buffers
new module infix.lsp for parsing infix expressions
in newlisp-tk changed /tmp to tmp for Linux/UNIX
- 7.2.6
(new CTX 'CTX2) copies context CTX to CTX2, helps using
contexts a objects, which can be instantiated from a template
context
'define' 'constant' used in contexts will always force creation
of the symbol in that context, never overwrite definitions in
MAIN. This is changed behaviour also be reflected in the documentation.
The old way was leading to unexpected definitions in MAIN of symbols
although loaded from a context. 'set' still will first look for a
global in MAIN.
fixed false error messaging on certain parenthesis errors
fixed wrong error message when trying to define protected
symbol
error message 'parameter out of range when calling 'gammai',
'beta' or 'gammaln' with first parameter 0.
- 7.2.7
contexts now can be assigned to variables and referenced
during runtime, i.e. 'contextVar:varName' with late binding
of contextVar. New possibilities of OO programming and lexically
scoped programming, see new chapter in the users manual
about 'Programming with context objects'.
stronger separation of contexts from context MAIN, only
primitive symbols, context symbols, true and nil are
inherited
'new' now returns the new context, formerly 'true'
'set', 'setq', 'set!', 'constant' now return the value of
the symbol set when the rvalue is missing i.e:
(constant 'foo) will make foo a constant and return it's
curent value
protected all symbols in MAIN in newlisp-tk.tcl v 1.03
against accidental overwrite
cleaned up toal mess of tem pdir detection in unix mode
cleaned up init.lsp
'nth' now can take multiple indices, i.e.:
(nth 1 2 0 '(1 (a b (c d)))) => c
good for working with matrices or sparse matrices
out of bounds indices return the last in dimension
'set-nth' like former 'replace-nth' but multidimensional
like 'nth'
(set-nth 1 2 0 '(1 (a b (c d))) 'x) => (1 (a b (x d)))
- 7.2.8
eliminated statics in lambda expression, not necessary
anymore as we have dynamic contexts, which also
create a lexically closure around vars
fix in dolist, how cleanup is done
===============================================================================
- 7.3.0 Released version 2003/11/03
(cpymen fromAddress toAdress nBytes), address may be integer
or string, only for internal use, not documented. Could be
used with 'dump' to hack lisp-cells and symbols-cells.
i.e. to unprotect a symbol :
(cpymem (pack "c c" 0 32) (last (dump 'sym)) 2)
fixed error message reporting in 'set-nth'
- 7.3.1 released Nov 11 2003
'import' was broken in Win32 native version when working
inside contexts (odbc.lsp and mysql.lsp)
(pretty-print line-length indent-string)
experimental not documented yet, to change pretty printing
behaviour, without args returns current status => (64 " ")
64 length 1 space for indenting
- 7.3.2
'char', 'collect', 'lookup', 'nth', 'pop', 'push', 'select', 'set-nth'
and 'slice' now all accept negative offset which will count from the
end of a list i.e. (slice "newLISP" -4 2) => "LI"
'push' and 'pop' now can take multidimensional offsets like
'nth' and 'set-nth'
'collect'/'select' now return the last element for offsets to big
(formerly nil)
'pretty-print' now tested and documented
1.e-1 or 123. , a decimal point without following digits is
no an accepted number format
in newlisp-tk the windows position gets now saved when saving
Options/Settings
fixed bug in 'let' when returning a local var
- 7.3.3
new 'push' changed 'nilCell'
- 7.3.4
newlisp_manual.html with Kazemori edits
'list' now accepts unlimited number of arguments
- 7.3.5
'push' could not append to an empty list
handling big buffers in newlisp-tk in evaluation
common floating point exception handling on all
platforms (BorlandC and GCC)
block mode for remote connection starting with [cmd]
on a line by itself and finishing with [/cmd] on
a line by itself
sets locale environment on non-US versions of an OS
platform, this enables automatically correct character
handling (i.e. upper-case) on non-engish character sets
- 7.3.7
newlisp-tk.tcl now takes advantage of new block mode (multiple
lines in interactive mode). This ways one of the ports in
communication with newlisp could be eliminated and browser-editor
buffers of unlimited length can be evaluated, preferrably in
evaluation without printing (left of the two buttons)
doc changes for 'silent'
- 7.3.8
'let' now accepts also alternative syntax without the parenthesis
around var - exp pairs: (let (var1 exp1 var2 exp2 ...) body )
doc changes for 'let' and chapter 'Lambda expression'
doc change new function 'set-locale'
doc change new sub chapter 'Switching the locale' in chapter
'Localization and customization'
doc change new file LOCALIZATION
'fn' may be used instaed of 'lambda' (save typing)
'set-locale' changes usage: (set-locale) => return current
setting, (set-locale "") => switches to local locale with
all option turned on. (set-locale str int) switches to locale
in str with category option int as speicied in "locale.h" of
platform/OS, look for defs of LC_ALL, LC_NUNMERIC etc..
on startup newLISP tries to swithc to ISO "C" locale.
- 7.3.9
'push' and 'pop' now can take the int-offsets in a list to
work together with new 'ref' which reports the position of an
expression in a nested list
doc changes (sometimes only small changes)
'push', 'pop', 'symbol?' new function 'ref'
'save', 'set', 'Arrays and Hash Tables ...', 'close',
'cons', 'context', 'delete', 'explode', 'fft', 'find',
'format', 'intersect', 'lambda?', 'length', 'let'
'make-dir', 'match', 'net-receive', 'net-select',
'net-send', 'new'
changed options flag will trigger recompile when caching regular
expression patterns
'select' evaluated args in offset list
'join' evaluated args in string list
'append'' evaluated the first string arg double
all type predicates now given an error message if the
argument is missing, previously 'nil' ('true' on atom?)
getting an int from a 'inf' floating point crashed on Borland Win32
now returns 0 like on other platforms
- 7.3.10
'remove' didn't check for list type in second arg and bombed
- 7.3.11
new compile for Win32 DLL with makefile_win32dll
see file win32dll.readme for unsolved issues
- 7.3.12
(replace expr aList) now works like 'remove', but for removing
strings the empty string "" must still be specified:
(replace str aString "")
'remove' is deprecated and will not be available anymore in 8.0
new 'flat' to flatten lists complements multidimensional set
of list functions, example:
(set 'lst '(a (b (c d))))
(map (fn (x) (ref x lst)) (flat lst)) => ((0) (1 0) (1 1 0) (1 1 1))
newlisp.dll now runs qa suite
- 7.3.14
DLL now suppresses pop up on FP domain error (thanks Steve)
DLL now also can use print statment, output will be in return
value.
'replace' did not work correctly when removing multiple expressions
at the beginning of a list
doc changes 'replace', 'flat', chapter 'Deprecated functions'
chapter 'DLL module ...'
error message for "string too long" now reports shorter string
- 7.3.15
better error reporting on some string getting functions when arg
is missing
doc changes license change for documentation, misc. links
replace could not handle empty search string
Win32 DLL no contained in Win32 distribution
fixed error in httpd
- 7.3.16
error messages in newlisp.dll where broken becuase of wrong makefile_win32dll
newlisp-tk.html now reformatted to manual HTML for better maintenance/conversion
slight optimixation in 'nth' and 'set-nth'
fix for 'nth' on empty string
better error messages on missing args in various functions
link.lsp now also works on win32 DLLs but is not supported anymore
for CYGWIN, use a win32 compiled newlisp.exe and newlisp.dll instead,
both work fine under CYGWIN
doc change for chapter 'Win32 DLL ...'
fixed 'silent' mode for DLL
'float' conversion noe accepts leading . without zero like the
internal parser
- 7.3.17
doc changes as of Sam Cox's and Nigel's postings on
http://www.alh.net/newlisp/phpbb/ on 2003-12-07
new functions 'atan2' and 'irr' and documentation
eliminated compiler warnings for Linux GCC 3.3.1
- 7.4.0rc1
'irr' now strips of digits less than precision 1e-5
'set-nth' alsow works on strings (singular index)
'swap' now works on strings, also return value changed
from swapped pair to changes list/string
'pretty-print' had a cell leak
in the installation for LINUX/BSD etc. the doc directory has been
moved from /usr/doc/newlisp to /usr/share/doc/newlisp
newlisp-tk.tcl 1.07 changed accordingly
upgrade to PCRE 4.5 files
'integer' didn't truncate to -MAX_LONG
'integer' did not truncate to MAX_LONG when feeding big
floating point numbers, but crashed on Win32
on Win32 float functions on NaN crashed
doc changes: integer, NaN?, error-event, error-text, atan2
- 7.4.0rc2
enabled error events in Win32 DLL module
update finger example file and example in doc
doc change 'net-connect'
- 7.4.0rc3
floats now work in imported fuctions (tested on x86 platforms)
and up to 14 parameters (previously 10) are accepted, floats
count as two
nth-set like set-nth but different return value, was in rc2
but now documented
doc changes: chapter 'Functions in groups', 'import', 'inc', 'dec'
arithmetik operators +,-,*,/, 'set-nth', 'nth-set'
'sort', '%', 'mod', '<,>,=,<=,>='
doc new file: hacking_newlisp.html with describes previously
undocumented features
'for', 'dotimes', 'seqence', 'series' now return a 'invalid parameter: NAN'
error when NaN parameters are passed
===============================================================================
- 7.4.0 release 2003/12/20
- 7.4.1
commandline switch '-m N' where N is the max number of megabyte newLISP
is allowed to allocate for LISP cells
setq,set!, define (as set) did not work right with dynamic context vars
- 7.4.2
%s format now recognizes precision i.e: (format "%5.2" "hello") => " he"
various doc changes
pop3.lsp now handles pop3 servers w/o LAST command, but only on the
functions: get-all-mail and delete-all-mail
char did not convert the 0 correctly, now: (char 0) => "\000"
- 7.4.3
fixed printing context name when in a context other than MAIN
this affected the newlisp-tk frontend since v. 7.2.7
many doc corrections, now rev 5
- 7.4.4
(now ... ) returns an additional number 'minutes west of GMT'
for the timezone offset
the optional time ofset parameter in 'date' and 'now' must now
be given in minutes west of GMT, was previously in hours,
standard when using time zone offsets
max cell count as specified in command line swith -m now second
number in 'sys-info' if not specified defaults to 0x10000000
doc addition of -m commandline switch and change in 'sys-info'
- 7.4.5
format now can take unlimited number of parameters, before 2048
changes in stat.lsp, smtp.lsp and httpd for new 'sys-info'
- 7.4.6
fixed problem in float -> integer conversion of big numbers
attempt to fix for last parameter of 'now' for solaris (not tested)
- 7.4.7
updated to BWidget-1.7 in newlisp-tk (since 7.4.6)
timezone offset in return value for 'now' set to 0 on SOLARIS
plotting with stat.lsp and gnuplot was messed up on Win32, now
can also do multiple plot one after another using 'process' instead
of exec
eliminated 'gettime' example, as that service doesn't run on most
computers these days
'import' on Win32 now can use cdecl calling conventions with
additional parameter string "cdecl" when importing functions.
This allows calling many third party DLLs without special wrapper DLLs
On LINUX etc. the extra parameter is ignored.
mysql.lsp version 2.0, several functions changed and offsets defined
for MySQL v.4.0, previous versions will not work
- 7.4.8
improved error message for missing par
sqlite.lsp - module for SQLite datavase from http://www.sqlite.org
mysql.lsp small fixes and revised test routine, tested on MySQL v. 4.0
'transpose' now transposes any kind of matrix (previously only matrices
containing numbers; it also rectangualarizes matrices; speed improved
3 fold.
in 'if' and 'cond': if the last condition given is the empty listy ()
which evaluates to nil in a boolean context, and if no then/else actions
or now cond action is given, then the empty list () is returned (previusly nil) .
fix for 'date' which crashed at values overflowing int32 (2038 1 19 3:14:07)
logging has been changed to a fixed filename 'newlisp-log.txt
new command line switch -h
better pretty printing of symbols which are constant and global
===============================================================================
- 7.5.0 RELEASE 2004-01-21
cgi.lsp, form.html, form.cgi where missing from FILES inventory
new 'sqlite.cgi' web script for administering SQLite database in newLISP
eliminated various unused vars with -w8004
fixded bug in 'global' printing
changed directory structure, new dirs: doc, examples, modules
- 7.5.1
(rotate '()) crashed because of list length zero
fixed nested catch/throw
fixed lambda stack oberflow after 3000 catch
eliminated array.lsp instead shorter hash.lsp for hash functions
changed sqlite.lsp to version 1.6, name change for future
reserved word 'array'
dynamic context var refs now work inside contexts, this makes
it possible to call constructors from inside the class context
improvement of floating point speed 60% in simple arithmetik
and 25% in most floating point functions
(format "%d" 1.23) => "1" before this was not permitted
(format "%5.2f" 10) => "10.00" also allowed now
- 7.5.2
(array i j k aList), returns a 1 to 8 dimensional array and
initializes optionally from flat list in aList
(array-list myArray) returns a list conversion of myArray
(aray? expr) tests if expression is a list
all array acces modification via nth, set-nth and nth-set
also released benchmarks comparing with Perl, Python and Guile,
see at: http://newlisp.org/benchmarks
- 7.5.3
(seek 0) now returns numbers of characters printed to stdout,
works on BSD but on LINUX and Win32 will always return -1
'integer' now takes additional base parameter after the
default parameter, i.e: (integer "1111" 0 2) => 15
note, that hex numbers still need to be prefixed with 0x
even when specifying base 16
added txt2pdf.lsp as a new module in the module directory
comprehensive manual edit by Brian Clausing (thanks!)
new chapter about linking LISP source and executable
all deprecated functions thrown out:
concat, remove, replace-nth, sublist, substring, read-process
read-url, write-process. All have replacements, see manual.
changed cgi.lsp, stat.lsp, spam-filter for deprecated functions
1% overall speed improvement 0.5% size reduction
nth didn't work on lambda in 7502
'format' increasing of ars beyond 2048 has been rolled back
because of problems when evaluation of args is deeply nested
- 7.5.3a
changes in newlisp-tk.tcl for deprecated 'remove'
changes in qa for deprecated functions
- 7.5.4
15% speedup in 'format'
writeStreamStr() and readStreamText() did not handle zeros
'source' like save on strings eliminates tmp directory in
new newlisp-tk v.1.09
1000+ times speedup in XML parsing of bigger files
changing a strncpy() to a memcpy()
- 7.5.6
newlisp-tk 1.10 now shows message box when trying to open
debugger with browsers at the same time
updated FILES inventory
logging did not work as described (was always on with -p -d)
net-listen and net-receive-udp take as an additional optional
parameter the address the listening socket should bind for
computers with multiple network adapters
optional last parameter in net-send-udp for specifying
broadcast mode with 'true' (or anything not evaluating to nil),
not necessary on wome Win OS where '255' on last address byte
is enough to turn on broadcast mode
Ctrl-C handler simple on Win32 and with continue, exit, reset
menu on LINUX/BSD (somewhat unreliable?)
Broken Pipe on net-send now handled correctly on Linux/BSD
is handled by socket stack on Win32
(slice str 1 -1) does not crash anymore (length arg should
never be negative)
- 7.5.7
signal handlers now initialized before loading commandline
scripts
- 7.5.8
shorter code for swap
defunct zombie child processes now cleaned up by 'process'
on UNIXs
fixed potential bug in regex replace when replacement expression
evaluates to no-string
- 7.5.9
all functions changing the contents of a symbol (destructive
functions) will now cause an error when used on symbols protected
with 'constant', previously it worked only with set, set!, setq
and define, define-macro; loop variables in dotimes, for, dolist
and dotree are protected against change by user with an error
message during looping and may not be constant before the looping
starts using them
new manual chapter about 'Variable names and numbers syntax"
bug fixes/additions in httpd, now version 3.3
fixed potential memory overwrites in nl-web.c
error message length limited to 1024 characters
- 7.5.10
rolled back symbol protection for dotree and dolist, which
is not necessary
- 7.5.11
new mode for 'open' "pipe' or "p" opens a named pipe non-blocking
for reading
- 7.5.12
rolled back protection for dotimes, for loop variable solving
crash problem in different way
- 7.5.14
documentation fixes and compiler warnings fixes
two additional file for viewing manual in frames with index
the Win32 installer puts entries in startmenu including an uninstall
The WIn32 installer puts a newLISP icon in desktop and startmenu links
protect built-in functions from overwriting with import but the
function can still be imported in a context different from MAIN
eliminated "pipe" or "p" mode in 'open' instead "non-block" or "n"
as additional option after "read" or "write" option
net-lookup, net-select, net-send-udp, net-peek did not clear net-error
net-select now can accept a list of sockets instead of one socket
net-select now has a third mode "exception" or "e" to test error
conditions on socket
apply works reducing a list when additional reduce count is given
load takes multiple filenames
- 7.5.15
integer and float now return nil or the default value when type
other than string or number is specified, previously this
caused an error message
expanded chapter on Tcl/Tk Variables in:
"Writing applications with newLISP and Tcl/Tk"
- 8.0.0rc1
added more examples to newlisp-tk.html
allow [cmd] tag in -d mode
reopen mode in [cmd] section for potential memory leak after
error conditions or on reconnect
allow contexts to be overcopied (broke benchmarks)
- 8.0.0rc3
re-fixes the memory leak for [cmd] tags
- 8.0.0rc4
doc changes manpage
take abs() value in -m commandline option
reorder help menu for logical sequence of options
newlisp-tk 1.12 now tolerant for not finding "Fixedsys",
"Lucida Console" or "fixed" fnt. Will take first font found
newlisp-tk 1.12 now save newlisp-tk.con correctly in home directory
of UNIX (startup dir in Win32)
man page for LINUX et al, thankyou Nigel Brown
- 8.0 released April 7 2004 ============================================
version nunbers changed from 8.0.0 to 8.0 to distinguish
rc versions from final version
sys-info now returns 7 as OS number of win32dll
corrections in MemoryManagement.html and newlisp_manual.html
- 8.0.1
changed package version number to dotted form for compatibility with
RPM packaging
changed Makefile install option for RPM compatibility and added
'make rpm' for makeing rpm package
man page for newlisp-tk
array was not serialized correctly in 'source' and 'save'
negative indices in arrays, which are too big now give out-of-bounds
error (previously took first element as for lists)
now up to 16 indices can be specified, previously 8
changes in docs for array chapter and functions
in newLISP-tk under Linux/Unix file open dialog now starts
with /usr/share/newlisp/newlisp-tk
- 8.0.2 Released 2004-05-02 ============================================
httpd version 3.5
doc changes
- 8.0.3
constant did not allow multiple args
parse now recognizes zero length token and stops parsing
instaed of going into a loop
fix for contextvars in tcl/tlk IDE v1.15 and p_context()
bug fixes in cgi.lsp now v.1.5
documentation corrections
a bug fix in the reset routine
- 8.0.4
fixed the fix in reset
cell leaks in error messages in catch/throw situations are now avoided
- 8.0.5
filter now filters nil symbols like nil values (like if, while, not etc)
this effects the function index in the same way
access system variables $0, $1 ... etc. with an index ($ 0), ($ 1) .. ($ i)
where i is an integer
bug fix for catch when result variable has same contents as return from
catch statement
- 8.0.6 Released 2004-06-06 ============================================
new env replaces deprecated environ, getenv, putenv (still available but
to be eliminated in 8.1)
additional paragraph about ovewriting global symbols in the chapter
'Contexts'
- 8.0.7
net-receive-udp can take an additional timeout parameter
doc changes for net-receive-udp
new example whitelist-filter for email filtering
- 8.0.8
trim now can take optional second trim-character parameter:
(trim "---HELLO===" "-" "=") => "HELLO"
(trim "0001234" "0" "") => "1234"
allows trimming of only one side (empty string) or different
trimming left and right
new functions 'utf8' and 'unicode' to convert between utf8
and UCS-4 encoded Unicode
UTF-8 versions of: char, upper-case, lower-case, first, rest,
chop, explode, last, trim, collect select,
nth, set-nth, nth-set
any positions/indices in the UTF-8 versions of char, nth
set-nth and nth-set refer to (multibyte)character positions
rather than byte positions
find and regex return byte positions, slice takes byte positions
reverse always works on byte level, to reverse utf8 strings use:
(join (reverse (explode str)))
changed parsing of octal numbers 090 now "0" "90"
- 8.0.9
'source' now also working on context symbols
fix for 'trim' in utf8 version
fix for 'set-nth' and 'nth-set' in utf8 version
version 3.7 httpd fixing problems with post on IE
- 8.0.10
'net-sessions' now registers connecting peer in -p -d modes
makefiles for MinGW compiler for newlisp.exe and newlisp.dll
MinGW will eventually replace Borland BCC 5.5 as the default
compiler for the Win32 binary distribution
- 8.0.11
a fix for server crash in -d mode when reconnecting on Linux
- 8.0.12
now will reset when client exits in -d demon mode (still does
not maintain demon mode on slackware 2.4 but Debian 2.6
Linux Mandrakae 9.2/2.4.22 and FreeBSD 4.7 are OK)
new function (dup expr n) repeats expression n times in
list or string
function 'pipe' works on MinGW compiled version
- 8.0.13-14
fix of 'test-pipe' in fle qa
new option in Makefile: make uninstall
/usr/share/newlisp/init.lsp now tries to load $HOME/.init.lsp
as a user specific .init.lsp after the system wide init.lsp
$HOME gets defined as (env "HOME") or (env "USERPROFILE")
or (env "DOCUMENT_ROOT")
whatever is available in that sequence
fixes restart problem in demon mode
- 8.0.15
makefiles for newlisp as a shared library on Linux and BSD:
newlisp.so, the function to import is: newlispEvalStr
'print' and 'println' in newlisp.dll now are always
returned correctly in the return value of 'dllEvaStr'
was not working correctly before in many cirumstances
'newlispEvalStr' will replace 'dllEvalStr' in future
version in newlisp.dll, at the moment both work
this change was made for consistency over platforms
new chapter "Shared library newlisp.so on Linux/BSD" in users manual
- 8.0.16
doc changes for 'net-receive-udp'
'net-receive-udp' can now receive on a specific IP address, this
was documented already but not working
'net-connect' and 'net-listen' ca use a "udp" option to do
nonblocking UDP data exchange with net-send and net-receive and
without immediate closing of socket as happening using
net-receive-udp and net-send-udp. See documenataion for
net-listen and net-connect in the manual
improved error message for missing parenthesis
newlisp.vim VIM syntax file now included in source distribution
thanks to David from http://www.geocities.com/excaliborus/ for
this contribution
updated the CREDITS file
all predicates, which ended in p when using HTML (i.e. listp for list?)
have been renamed to using the '?' instead of 'p' in HTML to make
utilities, which position in the newlisp_manual.html work
- 8.1.0rc1
fixed memory leak in 'irr'
new 'net-receive-from' and 'net-send-to' for non-blocking UDP
communications over open connections
- 8.1.0rc2
an almost double speed and smaller parser for pack/unpack format strings,
which does not need spaces in between the format specifiers
a fix in net-send-udp not closing the socket after the new changes in rc1
doc changes
- 8.1.0 Released version on 2004-08-10 ========================================
two new example programs: udp-server.lsp and udp-client.lsp to demo
non-blockig UDP communications
merged bugfixes from dlcompat as of cvs 2004-07-12 Peter O'Gorman
this affects only Mac OSX
added -c option for suppressing the prompt
added node.lsp in modules directory for building newLISP clusters.
new versions of several modules and example files to account for
new version numbering
- 8.1.1
sleep now rounds to the nearest full second on systems where nanosleep()
is not available.
timeout option in net-receive-udp works again
- 8.1.2
'make install_home' and 'make uninstall_home' of installations on Linux/UNIX
in the home directory of the user in $HOME/bin and $HOME/share/
'search' crashed on invalid filehandles
new 'expand' for expanding variable bindings in lists
- 8.1.3
a fix for 'get-url' on some Solaris installations
- 8.1.4 released August 21st, 2004 ==========================================
doc changes ansd new option 'make version' for changing version numbers
in all affected files
- 8.1.5
nl-sock.c missed a change for Win CE, PocketPC
qa - testfile now complete with all functions, use: ./newlisp qa to test
without process and test functions using process, or use: ./newlisp qa ext
to test for all function (only Win32 and Linux)
a fix for timeout values > 1000000 usec on BSD and Solaris in net-select
and net-receive-udp
in net-listen and net-connect specify "multi" or "m" instead of "udp"
for UDP Multicast mode
- 8.1.6
'collect' and 'select' are collapsed into 'select' which is now also
type polymorph on the second parameter.
new makefile_solaris_utf8
new 'fork' function for lauching a newLISP child process thread
on Linux/UNIX only and CYGWIN on Win32.
- 8.1.7
fixed rounding error in 'sleep' when compiled with NANOSLEEP
improved qa routines using 'fork' on Linux/UNIX for some tests
- 8.1.8
new 'wait-pid'for watching the status of child threads created with 'fork'
and proccesses created with 'process'
upgraded to PCRE v. 5.0
more tweaks in qa file
fixed potential memory leak in 'new'
- 8.2.0 Release September 21st, 2004 ======================================
- 8.2.1
write-buffer can now take string instead of file handle to write
to a string in a string growing (concatenating) fashion, this is
much faster then doing (set 'str (append str content)) now:
(write-buffer str content)
'symbol' now can overwrite global symbols from MAIN (i.e. built-ins)
i.e. (symbol "print" 'MyContext)
'process' now ca take to addtioal pipe handle parameters, which
get mapped to stdin and stdout for the new process:
(map '(myin bcout) (pipe))
(map '(bcin myout) (pipe))
(process "bc" bcin bcout)
(write-buffer myout "3 + 4\n")
(read-line myin) => "7"
'semaphore' lets you create wait and signal semaphores
(set 'sid (semaphore)) ; aquire
(semaphore sid -1) ; wait
(semaphore sid 1) ; signal
(semaphore sid) => 1 ; status
(semaphore sid 0) ; release/delete
'share' to create shared memrory regions
(share) => address off mmap share
(share addr exp) => sets addr to exp for integers, floats and strings
(share addr) => returns integer, float or string exp
added newLISP-Excel-Import.xls example to examples/ directory
added prodcons.lsp - demo for fork, wait-pid, semaphore and share
- 8.2.2
'write-line' with string device like 'write-buffer', in both
symbol is now protected if protected with constant
share was broken for strings
- 8.2.3
pipe is now also available on CGWIN and Borland compiled versions
on all Win32 versions pipe can now remap std I/O like on Linux/UNIX:
(map '(myin bcout) (pipe))
(map '(bcin myout) (pipe))
(process "bc" bcin bcout)
(write-buffer myout "3 + 4\n")
(read-line myin) => "7"
process on Win32 can hide or minimize window:
(process application 0 0 0) => hide app
(process application 0 0 1) => show app
(process application 0 0 2) => minimize app
'share' and 'semaphore' are now also available on Win32
improvements in qa file, now tests all functions by default w/o ext option
better syncronization on some tests with semaphores
'match' in list mode now only returns matched expressions
(map set '(x y) (match '(a (? c) d *) '(a (b c) d e f)))
x => b
y => (e f)
when using match with an optional third parameter 'true', it works
in the old fashion: (map pattern aList true) => works like before
The context default function is a userdefined function with the same name
as the context it resides in, i.e: (define (ctx:ctx a b) (+ a b)) and can
be called just with the context name (ctx 3 4) => 7.
Default functions should only be called rom MAIN, or have already been
loaded or their context created before referred to in another context or
default function. Not yet 'official' see doc/default_functions.html
fixed cell leak in 'match' on backtracking
bug fix in let which did not honor protected symbols
- 8.2.4
deprecated collect, getenv, putenv and environ completely eliminated from
newlisp and examples, modules: httpd, cgi.lsp, sqlite.lsp
'+' new wildcard operator 'match': take one or more
net-error now returns error number and text separate in a list
net-connect failure did not set net-error
'now' has now the daylight-savings-flag 0 or 1 as last parameter
new 'sys-error' for reporting C-library errno values
'newlisp -e' without a command string crashed
'push' now optimized when pushing as last element with -1
(new ...) now will not overwrite existing symbols, to allow true
mixins of other contexts. To overwrite symbols as before version
8.2.4 use the true as a third parameter i.e. (new A 'B true).
- 8.2.5
'symbol?' can now be used on dymamic context vars, i.e
(set 'ctx MyCTX) ; MyCTX is existing context
(symbol? 'ctx:x) ; true if MyCTX:x exists, nil if not
This checks the xistence without inadvertantly creating it.
previously (symbol "x" ctx nil) had to be used.
'replace' can now take an additional option bit 0x8000 for replacing
only once in a string: (replace "a" "aaa" "A" 0x8000) => "Aaa"
'define-new' copies individual funtions from
other contexts with or without renaming them to a new function:.
(define-new 'foo:func 'bar:func) copy to different context
(define-new 'foo:func 'foofa) copy to current and rename
forward referece to a symbol in symbol did not work in mixin mode
of 'new'
the space between optioncharacter (-s,-m,-p,-d,-e) and optionvalue
can now be omitted, i.e. -s 10000 and -s10000, both work.
'date' without an argument returns the character string for the current
local time, this avoids the construct (date (apply date-value (now)))
'date-value' without and argument returns the time of seconds
since 1970-1-1 0:00 equivalent to (apply date-value (now))
8.2.6
'delete' now can delete an entire context without removing conatined
symbols first
serialization of contexts to a file using 'save' now is done correctly
when the context context contains overwrites of global symbols.
a more flexible and faster 'symbol' function, which can take any character
sequence and numbers, and can be used this way for hash-like associative
memory access. New module hash.lsp to show usage.
'define-new' renamed to 'def-new', for shorter typing and for not
associating it to 'define' but rather to 'new' (was introduced in 8.2.5)
'letn' works similar to 'let' but incrementally uses the local variable
bindings like multiple nested let when evaluating the initializer expressionsi
for locals.
8.2.7
'address' (previously only documented in 'hacking_newlisp.html') now also
returns addresses to integer and double float data type, useful when passing
int * or double * to imported functions, now documented in main manual
'sym' is an abbreviated form of 'symbol', since 'symbol' starting in 8.2.6
can take any sequence of characters, including strings which are illegal
symbols in newLISP syntax, and is used for hash/dictionat like lookups, it
is used more often, therefore this shorter form 'sym' is introduced
added configuration variable in newlisp-tk.config to specify a newLISP
application. See newlisp-tk.html "Delievering Applications" for details
'apply' and 'map' now can be used on macros
'pack' and 'unpack' have new format specifier 'b' for unsigned 8bit numbers
'encrypt' crashed on empty strins in key
8.2.8
'encrypt' crashed on empty key-string, now gives error message
'int' as shorter writing of 'integer'
'pack' now converts all types as needed, i.e. (unpack "b" (pack "b" -1.0)) => 255
from-to integer-floats, did it before only for "f" and "lf"
'flt' converts a number to a 32bit float repesented by an integer for usage
in calling imported library routines, which take floats.
'array' skipped wrong index types instead of giving error message
8.3.0 Released Nov 21st, 2004
8.3.1 Released Nov 23rd, 2004 ============================================
'nth-set' gave error on protected symbol in index
'apply' 'map' on macro was returned to 8.2.0 behaviour
8.3.2
more cleanup in qa file
cleaned up makefiles -D definitions eliminating redundant -DOPSYS
eliminated 'break', which did not do anything after introduction
of 'debug' in version 6.3.07
overall speedup of about 5% by predefining system symbols
$0 -> $15, speedup of 80% to 100% in functions using system
symbols like set-nth, nth-set, find, parse, regex, replace
new 'do-while' and 'do-until' check condition _after_ evaluating
the body expressions
new 'read-key' reads nonblocking keyboard character code
not working on Mac OSX but all other flavors
superflous args in user defined function call caused cell leak
never happened, i.e.: (define (foo x) ..) and (foo a b c)
'get-url' now handles "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" correctly
'amb' picks an argument at random and evaluates it
-x command line switch for server mode with handler function
'x-event' i.e: newlisp my-httpd -x 8080
my-httpd is a lisp file containing the user defined handler
function i.e: (define (x-event request) .....)
this way servers for different protocols / requests can be simply
programmed using 'print','read-line', etc., for IO to the specified
port, the connection stays up until closed by the client.
See chapter 'Command line options ...' in the manual
fixed a bug in 'new' and 'def-new' when the source was MAIN
this fix was necessary to write a function (def-static ....)
for writing statically scoped functions (see int the manual
chapter 'Lexical, static scoping in newLISP', subchapter
of 'Programming with context objects'.
8.3.3
'debug' did not handle default functions written without colon
'save' 'source' did not space symbols under sum circumstances
'dolist' now double as fast and safe to break out with 'throw'
'catch' now has an additional syntax with just one argument to write
easier returns from functions, loops or blocks, ie:
(catch (dotimes (x 1000) (if (x 500) (throw "fin"))) => "fin"
returns the result or throw argument
8.3.4
'save' 'source' spacing-fix was incomplete
8.3.5
If the a '!' is entered as the first character on the command line immediately
followed y a shell command, that command will be executed, i.e. !lsi in Unix
or !dir in Win32 would show a directory listing. There should be no space
between '!' and the shell command.
URL length in get-url and post-url is now unlimited
8.3.6
manual corrections, additions and new sub-chapter about XML-RPC
BASE64 encoding and decoding with 'base64-enc' and 'base64-dec'.
new sign-on message, and different for remote modes
added 'xmlrpc-server' to examples directory
added 'xmlrpc-client.lsp' to modules directory
fix for 'Transfer-encoding: chunked' if 'Content-length:'
is given too (which should not happen but is found occasionally)
8.4.0 Released 2005-01-18 ============================================
added xmlrpc.cgi for handling XML-RPC requests as CGI
fixed a file descriptor leak in -d -x modes
after the 'debug' fix in 8.3.3 debug did not recurse into funcs
'args' can take an index argment i.e. (args 0) (args 1) etc.
8.4.1
fixed signon message missing 'n'ewLISP
added UTF-8 to signon message
added f-prob to stat.lsp (probability of F ratio for df1/def2)
(throw-error expr) throws an error with message printed in expr
error thrown this way can be handled like any other newLISP error
using (catch foo 'result) or with (error-event ...)
changed/added docs for catch, throw, throw-error and chapter:
Integer abnd Floating point ...
newlisp-tk.exe now wrapped with freewrap v.6.0 and Tcl/Tk 8.4.8
suppresses occasional display of tcwish console
added updated newlisp.jsf syntax file for JOE editor to distribution
8.4.2
[cmd] tags did not work when compiled with READLINE option
(args) which previously worked only in macros now too works in
functions. The behaviour of (args) has changed: only unbound arguments
for which there is now local variable in the macro (or function) are
returned in the list. This makes changes in existing macros necessary,
which specify both, local variables and they use args. Most changes
lead to simpler macros or function, because (args) already contains
only the unassigned args.
changed macro definition of 'tk' in newlisp-tk.tcl to function
changed plot 'macro' in stat.lsp and 'defun' in init.lsp
8.4.3 Release 2005-02-12 =================================================
cleanup from (args) changes, protect $args from deletion
8.4.4
misplaced paren in conditional def of defun in init.lsp
OS number in sys-info was incrementing on every call when DLL or UTF-8
decimal point setting from locale is now used correctly when parsing source
i.e. after performing (set-locale "German_Germany.1252") in Germany
1,23 will be recognized corectly as a decimal number with comma as the
decimal separator.
qa_comma QA test file for German or other locales using ',' comma as
decimal separator, qa renamed to qa_dot for decimal-dot locales.
In comma locales both, qa_dot and qa_comma should work, in decimal
dot countries onlz qa_dot will work.
daylights savings field in 'now' function now shows a flag 1/0 if time
zone may have DST at certain time of the year on Linux/UNIX. On Win32
it shows a 'daylight minutes bias' for timezones which may have DST.
Note that flag/bias is set through all the year even if DST is not
in effect at a given moment. May not work on all platforms.
additional format parameter in (date num offset fmt), see GNU gcc
strftime() function for details
Win32 installation now to $PROGRAMFILES/newlisp, which is
c:\Program Files\newlisp on English Windows. This defines a
fixed location for $PROGRAMFILES/newlisp/newlisp.dll for applications
loading newlisp.dll. 'PROGRAMFILES' is an environment variable available
on all MS Windows installations.
newLISP is now correctly registered in the
'control panel/add or remove programs' applet
8.4.5
newlisp.exe compiled on MinGW or Borland now will look for init.lsp
in the same directory where newlisp.exe resides
installer now sets path on Win32, this allows to import the DLL without
specifying the full path and allows to start newlisp or newlisp-tk from
anywhere on Win32
installer now allows installing without newlisp-tk
'nth' upgraded to 16 indices (like set-nth and nth-set)
'sort' now allows any binary operator user defined function as
compare funtion in third parameter
'implicit indexing' on lists, arrays and strings i.e.:
(lst 1 3) equivalent to (nth 1 3 lst)
(ary 0 -1) equivalent to (nth 0 -1 ary)
("newLISP" 3) equivalent to (nth 3 "newLISP")
unlimited number of indices and faster than explicit form
'pack' and 'unpack' now allow switching between little and big endian
byte order using new format characters '<' and '>'
8.4.6
'new' and 'def-new' did not replicate arrays, could cause crash
8.4.7
added 'upload.htm', 'uplload.cgi' to examples directory
minor fix in xmlrpc.cgi xmlrpc-server
better handling of bad server responses in get/post/put-url avoiding
an ifinite loop on some types of bad server responses
fix for endian switch in 'unpack' which changed the original buffer
re-arranged arrays, hashes and indexing chapters in the manual and
enhanced hashing chapter, added Win32 trailing slash warning to
manual entries of 'directory' and 'directory?'
experimental implicit indexing with nrest:
(1 '(a b c)) => (b c)
(1 "abc") => "bc"
8.4.8
implicit indexing with slice:
(3 2 '(a b c d e f g)) => (d e)
(-4 2 "abcdefg") => "de"
updated infix.lsp to version 1.4/5 was broken after newLISP 8.2.0
because of change in 'symbol' functioanality
possibility to check legality of a string as a newLISP source symbol
with (symbol? string), i.e: (symbol? "a b") => nil
illegal symbols are now serialized correctly in 'save' using a
set expression with (sym str context)
the Win32 installer now will correctly change settings in
newlisp-tk.config when chaning the install path during installation
will only work Windows 2000 and later
8.4.9
did not evaluate length in implicit slice-length
8.4.10
separated legal symbol? functionality into 'legal?' function. 'symbol?'
back to pre 8.4.8 functionality
8.5.0 Released April 8, 2005
'=' fixed problem when comparing strings and binary buffers
'args' with negative index did hang
'main-args' nor can be indexed like args, both accept negative indices
8.5.1
newlisp-tk tripped over file spec "", changed to "." in lastLoadedFile
on MacOSX. Changed Demo.lsp to work with TLCKAqua on MacOSX.
new function 'factor' for factoring numbers up to 15 digits
(must give floats for numbers bigger max int)
in newlisp.so and newlisp.dll main-args was initilized to nil instead of
the empty list ()
list in 'dolist' now safe to modify (back to 8.3.2 behaviour), but can
leave with 'throw' without leaking cells
signalling SIGUSR1 will perform a 'reset' but not kill newLISP
'timer' start a one shot timer event and registers a user defined
event handler, i.e: (define (ticker) (println (date)) (timer 'ticker 1))
defines a self starting and retriggering ticker.
8.5.2
added debug option to SIGINT handler, eliminated SIGUSR1 handler, because
is redundant
8.5.3
added 'signal' for userdefined signal handlers: (signal sig-no symbol)
args was not reset to '() when left unused in recursion levels
8.5.4
signal handler can pass the signal number as an argument (see manual)
new makefiles for OSX/Darwin UTF-8: make 'osx_utf8' and make 'darwin_osx_utf8'
(Darwin means: OSX + readline support)
when compiled with readline support newLISP will now exit pressing Ctrl-D
(Linux/UNIX)
'net-select' crashed on an empty list
8.5.5
fixed UTF-8 problems in file names in newlisp-tk.tcl (thanks Norman)
UTF-8 symbols where not treated as legal symbols in 'save' , 'legal?'
This prevented UTF-8 symbols to show up in the editor/browser listbox.
This is now fine on all UTF-8 and non-UTF-8 version.
UTF-8 now handled correctly in hostnames in net-xxx routines
UTF-8 now handled correctly in 'float' and 'integer', took some
UTF-8 characters for numbers.
'net-connect' and 'net-select' did not accept/convert floats for
portnumbers/sockets
sqlite3.lsp v.1.3 now handles FLOAT and BLOB datatypes and finds the correct
library/location depending on the OS platform
newlisp-tk did not save pathnames correctly in newlisp-tk.conf. New
version newLISP-tk 1.26 now works correctly when installing on MacOSX
use 'sudo make install' after build with 'make darwin' or 'make osx'
needs TclTk Aqua installed with darwin port tools
8.5.6
fixed potential problem in 'net-connect' with multicast option on
big-endian CPUs (MacOSX)
added broadcast option to 'net-connect' as udp mode plus broadcast specified
with "b" or "broadcast" instead od "udp". Broadcast mode was already possible
in 'net-send-udp'. Now broadcast can be set up in non-blocking mode on the
receiver side.
8.5.7
big speedup of 'replace' with strings on a file of 100k about 30x on
500k about 500x times speedup.
added example/tcltk.lsp for showing how to make GUIs without newlisp-tk
controlled from a newlisp script
8.5.8
added true/nil as allowed data in memory shares
added new make flavor osx_lib for shared library newlisp.so
MacOSX binary are smaller now because since 10.3 osx-dlfcn.o
is not required anymore, but extra makefile_osx_10.2 for older
Mac's
flushing stdio after output if not in terminal mode lets newLISP
now serve as a UNIX inetd handler
8.5.9
'timer' now can take fractions of a second, i.e. (timer 'alarm 0.1)
for 100 millisec
'read-buffer' now can take an optional wait string as 4th parameter
similar to 'net-receive' with wait string
added Mac OSX package preperation to Makefile
dropped cygwin support. MinGW and Borland remain as Win32 options
#ifdef's for cygwin are still there but have not been tested for
several versions
8.5.10
fixed a crash when hitting cursor-up inbetween [cmd]...[/cmd] tags
'timer' now avalailable on Win32
fixed a regex error, when expression found is of length 0
only one replacement was made
implicit indexing did not accept indices after a var-index, if
var-index was the first.
8.6.0 released June 10 2005
a bug fix for unpack when passing a number as an address on
OpenBSD where virtual memory pointers may be > 0x7fffffff
new function crc32, version: http://www.w3.org
share on Win32 leaked memory
8.6.1
'sql3:open' now returns nil and sets error the message when trying
to sql3:open twice.
'timer' now returns the elapsed time when calling just with the
event symbol, useful for checking timer progress or programming
timelines/schedules.
'source' now works like 'save' and can take multiple symbols;
context symbols are serialized including all of the contained
symbols.
Files are now created without execution permission with rw-rw-rw
which results in rw-r--r-- on UNIX systems assuming a user mask
of 0022.
'peek' similar to 'net-peek' but for any file descriptor, returns
number of bytes ready to read works also on std I/O 0/1. Only UNIX.
Added gmp.lsp for GNU Multi Precision library, contains
integer functions for arithmetik, see header of file gmp.lsp
for details.
optional parameter 'true' in 'difference' and 'intersect' puts
these functions in list-mode (versus normally set-mode).
new function 'title-case' upper-cases first character and
optionally lowercases the rest characters
8.6.2
changed makefile_darwin_utf8 to work on standard 10.4 installation
a parameter in utf8 version of upper/lower was evaluated twice
caused by new title-case code in 8.6.1
fixed append mode in file 'open' which created file with ------
permissions when file did not exists
optional 'true' flag in net-lookup to force hostbyname() lookup
for strings like "216.16.84.66.sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org"
huge speedup for 'difference' and 'intersect'. On a 10000 elment
list about 100 times speedup, both functions now scale linearly
with n+m instead of n*m, when n an m are the lenghts of the two
lists
speedup of 'count' for big item lists now scales m+n instead m*n
when m is the list of items to count in list with length n
8.6.3
'difference' did sometimes not unique, 'nil' treated incorrectly
8.6.4
fixed problems in 'count' and 'sort' caused by changes in 'sort'
necessary in new version of 'count', 'difference', 'intersect' and
'unique'
8.6.5
'catch' did not respect protection of symbols in the catch symbol
make version with sed finally working on UNIX previously only
cygwin
new function 'randomize' shuffles the elements of a list
new function 'net-eval' evaluates a batch of functions remotely
on newlisp servers, manages Tcp/Ip communications and data collection
with multiple servers started with: newlisp -c -d
timeout and optional callback/idle function
'array' with 0 length dimension crashed, now ignores 0-length
-d mode would exit when loss of communication in multiline [cmd] mode
now just cycles to restart
'error-event' only worked in programs loaded interactively, now works
also defined in scripts started on the command line
-l and -L now usable for logging in normal console mode, -l logs only
user input -L logs both user input and newLISP output (without prompt)
new chapter for logging in users manual
when evaluating multiple expressions on the command line or a batch
of expressions enclosed in [cmd],[/cmd] tags multiple results are now
separated by one space.
8.6.5-7
'ramdomize' looped on listlen 1
'load' now throws an eror when the file cannot be found or returns
the value of the last expression in the file evaluated. Before 'load'
returned 'nil' when file was not found and else 'true'. Note that this
required a change in init.lsp to catch error when trying to load
$HOME/.init.lsp
eliminated all sprintf() to avoid security warnings on openBSD compiles
'erf' and 'sgn' new functions
took out txt2pdf which is broken, will come back when fixed
fixed leak in evluateStream introduced with 'net-eval'
8.7.0-rc1 released October 10th 2005
'get-url' now acccepts https:// pages in main url or moved location
'sgn' extended with optional triconditional functionality
fixed result stack leak in 'net-eval'
'get-url', 'post-url' and 'put-url' now can take a timeout parameter
'read-buffer' with wait string now will put bytes read in buffer
including when the wait string was not found. When no bytes are
read buffer is nil.
'date-value' returned negative numbers on dates earlier 1970, now returns
0 on dates previous to 1970
'net-eval' would loop on connection errors, more detailed error messages
8.7.0 released October 15th
'append-file' like 'write-file' but appends
'select' on lists with an empty selection list now returns the empty list
previously nil.
8.7.1 RELEASE Nov 7th, 2005
fixed bug for push -1 optimization and various doc corrections
replaced 'integer' with 'int', 'get-integer' with 'get-int' and 'symbol'
with 'sym' in several examples/ and modules/ files
(nth ) now throws error (list index only allowed in
push/pop and implicit indexing)
8.7.2 development Release November 20th
new (net-ping host wait-time) returns ip-no or multiple ip-no for multiple
addresses in batch-mode or broadcast. Must have root privileges to use, or
set the newlisp executable set-user-ID with: chmod u+s /usr/bin/newlisp or:
chmod 4755 /usr/bin/newlisp; only on UNIX
'time' now safe for midnight wrap
'dup' with optional 'true' flag now can force list return when a string argument
is given; by default 'dup' concatenates the string
sys-error now reset after readline(), which caused it set to 22
'transpose' on empty lists segfaulted when on zero length dimension in the
first row, now an error message will be issued if the first row is empty
imnplicit rest failed strings when n was >= length of string
'count', 'difference' and 'intersect' crashed when handling identical lists
8.7.3 development release November 27th
added "list" flag to 'get-url', which permits capturing header and page in a list.
added custom header option to get-url, post-url and put-url
string display translation for char > 126 to \nnn format
8.7.4 development release December 5th, 2005
expanded functionality for 'context': (context 'CTX "symstr" value)
adds symbol to context CTX, (context 'CTX "symstr") returns value
this is a short form for: (set (sym "symstr" 'CTX) 123)
expanded form of 'context?' for checking existence of a symbol
'time' takes an additional parameter for the number of times the
expression should be evaluated for timing
cleanup format, file and directory routines (less code)
the terminating character from an expression returned in the console has been
changed from a space to a line feed
8.7.5 Development release December 23rd
added util/newlisp.plist syntax file for OSX BBEdit or TextWrangler editors
raw mode in 'net-eval' now documented
recognize simple path-href in 'location:' header spec in get/post/put -url
in 'process' on UNIX an optional pipe handle for standard error can be specified
if not present standard error gets redirected to stdout
allow default functions to be defined as primitives
shortened symbol param loop in evaluateLambda and evlaluateMacro
getContext() now safe for debug mode
'replace-assoc' gets additional (long overdue) syntax to remove associations
help-option in context console menu on newlisp-tk (not working on OS X)
8.7.6
Help buttons now work on MacOS X in newlisp-tk
fixed and issue with 'case' when a 'true' clause was assembled from an
evaluated 'true
handle some cases of self reference in set-nth/nth-set, i.e: the replacement sub
expression itlself changes the place its supposed to be assigned:
(set-nth i L (set-nth i L 99)) )
: (colon) now will be returned as token even if attached to other following chars
'parse' without regex parameter couild overrun string when it ended in \
8.7.7
regular expression support in 'directory'
new 'number?' works like (or (float? x) (integer? x))
in newlisp-tk help on hightlighted reserved word now works on MacOS X bringing
up browser with manual on right spot. (Ctrl-Left-Button for context menu)
new (bayes-train list-A list-B [list-C ...] context-symbol) lists contain
string tokens; and (bayes-query list-query context), not documented yet,
still testing and modifying
memory error fix in 'get-url' for chunked pages
8.7.8 development release January 16th 2006
'apply' now works on lists with unlimited length, no stack limit
both Bayesan modes: Chain Bayesian and R.A. Fisher CHi2, are now supported with
new 'bayes-train' and 'bayes-query', working and tested, see manual for
details
moved 'prob-chi2' and 'pob-z' in manual to "Simulation and modelling" group
together with 'bayes-train' and 'bayes-query'
ATTENTION:
calling into a context now changes the current run-time context:
(context 'FOO)
(define (foo) (context))
(context MAIN)
(FOO:foo) => MAIN ; old behaviour
(FOO:foo) => FOO ; new behaviour
The new behaviour is more intuitive and is what most programmers would expect.
Only applications using 'eval-string' or 'sym' (w/o specifying a context) are
effected. From all apps published by newlisp.org (blog, wiki, ide) only the file
cgi.lsp packaged with these applications is affected and should be changed to
the new cgi.lsp v.1.9 packaged with 8.7.8.
Users should check all applications using 'eval-string' and 'sym' (or the
deprecated 'symbol'). Pre 8.7.8 'eval-string' and 'sym' work with the runtime-
context beeing MAIN, the context where the program was started. Now both functions
work with the context they are part of:
(context 'FOO)
(set 'x 999)
(define (foo s) (eval-string s))
(define (bar s) (eval (sym s)))
(context MAIN)
(set 'x 123)
(FOO:foo "x") => 123 ; old behaviour
(FOO:bar "x") => 123 ; old behaviour
(FOO:foo "x") => 999 ; new behaviour
(FOO:bar "x") => 999 ; new behaviour
Changes to old code:
(1) Replace all cgi.lsp in newlisp-ide, newlisp-blog and newlisp-wiki apps.
the replacement will also work with newLISP versions previous to 8.7.8.
(2) Change old apps by preceding the 'eval-string' statement with (context MAIN)
or other required context change. Most of the time it's MAIN, the context where
th whole program was started.
(3) Change old apps adding explicitly the desired context in 'sym' as a
second parameter, i.e. (sym s 'MAIN) or (sym s ctx) where 'ctx' is a context
variable.
The new behaviour is more intuitive and will make OO based programming based
on contexts easier, it also increases isoloation of contexts because the current
run-time context is not dependend from where the program was started originally,
but only on the situation internal to that context.
8.7.9
added a configure script for compatibility with the popular autoconf/configure
system. An installation of autoconf is not required but the same sequence
of commands as on autoconf systems will work to make newLISP. newLISP's old
ways of making newLISP will also still work:
./configure will just try to discover the platform and give a message
make will try to discover the platform and make it
if make cannot discover the platform it will give a message
the module/context is now reported in error messages
'load' will never cause the runtime context changed, but the same run-time
context that was valid before the call to 'load' will be valid when 'load'
returns
'eval-string' now can specify the context under which it's string argument
should be parsed and evaluated.
'log' can be specify an additional parameter for a different base than the
default natural log
fixed a problem with reading very long UTF-8 source string constants
big speedup of parse with regular expression, now scaling linear
this enables tokenizing big documents in one piece
args in functions should be evaluated in callers context
(for: sym, context, eval-string)
8.7.10
raw string ouput (upper ascii in \nnn codes) in the newLISP commandline shell
return value only when locale is the default "C" locale.
'trim' was changing the original string in UTF-8 mode
'find', 'replace' and 'search' now do binary in both regex and non-regex modes
searched buffer, key/patterns string and replacement string can all contain
binary 0s
8.7.11
'string' now optimized double fast on string arguments
getCreateContext() checking symbol protection
'load' switches to context MAIN when loading file except if different
context is specified in file, on return 'load' switches back to callers
context (8.7.9)
'reset' adds an additional parameter for restarting newLISP with same
command line parameters with fresh memory in a new process space.
many security improvements for OpenBSD compiles
'reset' with optional 'true' (or non 'nil') parameter will restart
newLISP with the same commandline parameters, reloading files etc.
Not available on Win32 (execv() leave the system unstable when compiling
with MinGW.
8.8.0-p1 pre-release 1
'reset' was always exiting on UNIX after the change in 8.7.11
text buffers returned in 'net-eval' > 2048 characters and containing zero
characters where throwing a 'string too long error'
8.8.0-p2 pre-rlease 2
Many doc corrections
system symbols in set-nth was broken in 8.7.6
self refs in set-nth now safe
added and changed some cases to qa_dot and qa_comma, now safe again
for memory leak tests.
8.8.0 released February 20th, 2006
large file system support for files > 2 GB can now be turned on in newlisp.h
specifying #define LFS. File positions > 2^31 must then be specified as
floats up to 999999999999999.0 for 999 terabyte (TB). 'seek' will always
return a float, file positions should be handled as floats using
add, sub, mul, div instead +,-,*,/
Documentation corrections (thanks Ryon, Nigel et al.)
moved sql.c and types.c into the util directory
updated newlisp.vim (v1.27) and newlisp.jsf (v.1.9)
bug fix in cgi.lsp for '=' in key value strings
8.8.1
realloc compiler warning fix in nl-filesys.c/readBuffer()
error-event, net-eval (edited 4/13/20060), signal and timer can now take
a function or lambda expression, previously only a symbol holding a lambda:
(signal 2 exit)
(timer (fn () (println "hello")) 5)
The old syntax still works too.
Could not compile to a library (also fixed in re-release of 8.8.0)
code cleanup for allocMemory() + memset() => callocMemory()
now memory cleanup after exception in functor passed by:
'filter', 'index', 'net-eval' and 'replace'.
implicit n-rest and slice on default lists and strings:
(set 'foo:foo '(a s d f g h j))
(2 foo) => (d f g h j)
(-3 2 foo) => (g h)
'save' and 'source' will always serialize from context MAIN perspective
(like 'load') (source reverted back in 8.8.2)
fixed odd/even problem for 'rand' on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
8.8.2
'source' reverted back to 8.8.0 behaviour: serialize to current context
8.8.3
'signal' fixed format of internal symbol when passing functions
suppress saving/sourcing system symbols starting with '$' unless specified
specifically
new built-in function 'real-path' translates a relative path into an
absolute path. (read-path) same as (real-path ".") returns the current
working directory
8.8.4
'real-path' now also in Win32
handle self reference of result of while expression in condition
allow (sys-info 3) or (sys-info -1) as with 'args' and 'main-args'
'dup' will assume 0 for negative values
when entering multiline expressions/definitions bracketed by [cmd] ... [/cmd]
tags (each on a separate line] and hitting after the closing
[/cmd], newLISP compiled with lib readline support segfaulted, this long standing
bug as finallly been fixed
in 'xml-parse' when a closing CDATA tag was preceded by a forward slash, then
an extra text element containing part of the closing tag was emmitted,
this is fixed
support for MySQL v. 5.0 was added with mysql5.lsp
8.8.5
'read-key' now also works on MacOS X
a bug in the second syntax of 'context' has been fixed now can do:
(push i (context 'CTX "foo")) which now works if CTX:foo is a list
'load' now can take http:// (and file://) URL prefixes in filnames to retrieve/load
files via HTTP from remote servers
'xml-parse' now can take a context to place symbols/tags from SXML conversion
zlib.lsp: new module for in memory and .gz compatible file compression
'net-eval' idle loop did not pass parameter (broken in 8.8.1)
fixed a cell leak caused by 'while' self ref handling in 8.8.4
8.8.6
fix for error reporting of strings, which are too long
an optional break condition in all looping constructs allows early return:
(for (i from to step condition) ...)
(dotimes (i N condition) ...)
(dolist (i lst conditon) ...)
When condition returns non-nil the loop returns with the value of the condition.
When loop comes to end end the result of the last body expression gets returned.
describing the effects of non-rectangular matrices in the "Data types" chapter
and for the functions 'multiply', 'invert' and 'transpose'.
sqlite.lsp vor SQLite v.2.x has been discontinued, use sqlite3.lsp and SQLite3
error message was printed for each catch level where error was not caught,
should only be printed on top level if uncatched
new 'letex': let expression with expansion of let vars into body expressions
before evaluation
file open for append now atomic
8.8.7
new 'clean':
(clean predicate? aList) works like:
(filter (fn (x) (not (predicate? x))) aList)
"Transfer-Encoding: chunked" did not trigger chunked decoding
when more than one space after the ':' before 'chunked'
$0 counter did not count first element when in remove mode of
'replace'
'unify' does Prolog like unification with occur-check
(unify '(f (g A) A) '(f B xyz)) => ((B (g xyz)) (A xyz))
'unify' can take additional assoc params list:
(unify '(A (B) X) '(A (A) Z) '((A 1) (Z 4)))
=> ((A 1) (Z 4) (B 1) (X 4))
this is useful when chanining/nesting 'unify' to pass on
a newly bound environment
new mode in 'expand' with parameter assoc list:
(expand '(a (B (c) (d a B))) '((a 1) (B 2) (c 3) (d 4))) =>
(1 (2 (3) (4 1 2)))
new mode in 'expand' without symbol or assoc list:
(set 'X 2)
(expand '(a ((X)) b)) => (a ((2)) b))
expands only uppercase variables for use with the new Prolog like
'unify' function
added file syntax.cgi for syntax highlighting in HTML of newLISP source
to examples directory
8.8.8
eliminates several cell leaks in unify
'pop' can be used on strings (pop str [pos] [len]) pos can be negative
'push' can be used on strings (push str [pos]) pos can be negative
'push' now will only do list mode when lst is list or nil:
(push new lst) lst has to be list or nil, previous to string mode of push
any existing datatype non-list was initializeed to () now only nil is allowed
system var $idx contains the offset in dolist:
(dolist (e '(a b c d e)) (println $idx "->" e))
0->a
1->b etc.
indexing mode of 'args' now works with multiple indices, i.e (args 3 -1)
and is much faster
implicit indexing syntax now allowed in 'nth-set' and 'set-nth':
(set 'd '(a b c d e f g))
(nth-set (d 3) 99) => d
d => (a b c 99 e f g)
or with default functor:
(set 'db:db '(a b c d e f g))
(nth-set (db -1) 99) => g
db:db => (a b c d e f 99)
This also works for strings and arrays
many fixes/changes/additions in the manual and reference
8.8.9
'net-ping' didn't work on localhost
'nth-set/nth-set' bugfix for new feature breaking old
complete manual pass of the first 3 chapters by Michael - thanks
8.8.10
rotate works also on strings
(cons item lst -1) for consing at the end of the list (undocumented)
allow 0 length in chunked pages happening on put-url
give error message for unterminated [text] in interactive console
8.9.0 Release June 25th
complete pass through Users Manual by Michael Michaels
example programs in Appendix are now syntax highlighted
dolist $idx safe for nested loops
member works for strings
(starts-with s k true) should behave like the default (starts-with s k)
same with ends-with. This bug never surfaced because nobody specified
anything for the default of case sensitivity
8.9.1
(rand x n) returned n+1 after fix in 8.9.0, also looped on n=-1
new 'zero?' was broken for floats with fractional parts
newlisp -c -d and newlisp -c controlled by inetd now understand
simple HTTP GET requests. This feature is mainly intended for use with
(get-url "http://...) and (load "http://...) for retrieving or loading
files from remote newlisp/inetd worker nodes in a distributed computing
environment.
manual reviewed/edited up to and including the letter C
8.9.2
new (find-all pattern string [func [options]]) finds all regex-patterns in a
string and returns a list of matching strings:
(find-all {\d+} "asdf2kjh44hgfhgf890")
=> ("2" "44" "890")
(find-all {(new)(lisp)} "newLISPisNEWLISP" (append $2 $1) 1)
=> ("LISPnew" "LISPNEW")
the parameters in 'format' after the format string can now also be
given in a list: (format "%d %s" '(123 "hello"))
'read-key' did not work on SUSE Linux
8.9.3
default values in function and macro parameters: (define (foo (a 1) (b 2)) (list a b))
(foo) => (1 2)
(foo 3) => (3 2)
(foo 3 4) => (3 4)
no performance loss for normal syntax without defaults
format partly rewritten for better portability,
no tru64.c or ffi required after removing TRU64 for p_format in nl-string.c
8.9.4
removed tru64.c and changed makefile_true64
starts-with and ends-with can do reguluar expressions and take a regex option number,
the old nil-option for case insensitivity still works and is translated to regex
option = 1, but is deprecated and will be eliminated in the future
member for strings can take regular expressions, the old case insensitivity option
will not work (member for strings was introduced only recently
'symbol' the old writing for 'sym' has been eliminated
fixed create context bug in newlisp-tk.tcl
(<< num) works like (<< num 1), (>> num) like (>> num 1), (div num) like (div 1.0 num)
function 'uuid' for creating Universal Unique IDs type 1 and 4 (RFC 4122)
-C command option for Emacs forces prompt even if in pipe mode
manual edits up to letter J, thanks Michael
8.9.5
type 4 UUID now closer to RFC 4122 specification
trying to use set-nth or nth-set on an empty list corrupted the list
8.9.6
UUID type 1 got timestamp wrong, UUID 4 always started the same sequence
-------------------------- 64 Bit Integers ------------------------------------
8.9.7
all integer arithmetik 64 bit
'factor' now takes integers with max 64 bits and is 4x faster than previously
'import', 'pack', still take ints as 32bit, taking the least significant 32 bits
to pack 64bits do: (pack "ldld" int64 (>> int64 32)) for little endian
for big endian do: (pack "ldls" (>> int64 32) int64)
'format' has new 64 bit formats "%lld", "%llu" "%llx" for 64bit decimals and
hex numbers on UNIX on Win32 use "%I64d", "%I64u", "%I64x"
'format' now also recognises 'e' and 'E' scientific folating point formatting
32 bit format strings "%d" "%u" "%x" will truncate on int64 numbers
in float->int conversions floats out of range are converted to min/max 64 bit int
-9223372036854775808, 9223372036854775807 and 18446744073709551615 for unsigned
if an int32/uint32 is required by a function int64 values overflow to
min/max 32 bit int -2147483648/2147483647 and 4294967295 for unsignde int
LFS (large file support) in file operations for files opened with 'open'
now full 64 Bits (before 40 Bits)
(for (i from to step)...) has float in i, only when optional step value is specified
(sequence from to step) produces float only when optional step value is specified
(dotimes (i N)...) always has integer in i
this is consistend with 'inc' and 'dec'
net-select now can go to 68 :) years waiting time specifying 64bit higher timeout
values and a timeout of -1 waits forever
'net-close' with optional parameter: (net-close sock true) will suppress shutdown()
before closing the socket. In this case net-close will wait for undergoing traffic
to finish
new function (gcd x y ...) for greatest common deviser of n arguments
(pow x) defaults to (pow x 2)
wrong format could segfault (this bug was introduced in 8.9.3)
when replacing the first element in an association list with 'replace-assoc' and
an error occured when evaluating the replacement expression a segfault occured
(thanks to Ingo for catching this)
Note that bits shifts <<,>> now work on 64-bit integers too (added 2006-09-12)
8.9.8
'net-eval' now evaluates node parameters, before constants where required
(set 'host "localhost" 'port 4711 'cmd "(+ 3 4)")
(net-eval '((host port cmd)) 1000) = (7)
'net-eval' if no timeout specified waits forever
'net-eval' short form for one node: (net-eval host port cmd [timeout idle-loop])
timeout an idle loop are optional: (net-eval host port cmd)
Similar as for (load "http:// ...) and (get-url "http//..) in 8.9.1;
server mode: newlisp -c with -p or -d, now understands HTTP PUT requests
for saving/writing text files to a newLISP server node on UNIX using:
(save "http://..." ...) and (put-url "http://...") ...)
The server mode together with the beefed up 'net-eval', 'load', 'save'
'get-url' and 'put-url' assemble a nice toolset for distributed applications
with newLISP. The server node can also be started by inetd or xinetd.
(See manual). Must give full path-file-name in URLs i.e:
(put-url "http://localhost:50001//Myfiles/afile.txt" (read-file "somefile"))
newLISP server mode with HTTP capabilities in not yet available on Win32.
target context MAIN is now disabled in 'def-new' and 'new' because it would
cause ambigous situations when copying context vars after fixing a related
bug: def-new and new on context-vars
on UNIX a shared memory address obtained with 'share' can be unmapped using
(share nil )
'put-url' with "Pragma: append\r\n" in header option appends when talking
to newLISP server
'read-file', 'write-file' and 'append-file' accept "http:// ..." and
for HTTP mode and "file://..." for normal file mode.
in HTTP mode they work exactly like 'get-url', 'put-url' and 'put-url'
with "Pragma: append" in the header option.
new QA file qa-net for testing newLISP server modes with:
net-eval, load, save, read-file, write-file, append-file
new QA file qa-utf8 to display UTF8 characters, this is not a test for
newLISP but rather the UTF8 display capabilities of the platform running on
8.9.9
matrix operations now can be performed on arrays (previously only lists)
matrix operations will return the type (list or arrray) which was given
as input. In case of mixed input (i.e. in multiply), array type is
returned.
new function 'det' returns the determinant of a square matrix expressed
as a list or array.
fixed cell leak in define-macro when exercising default values
64-bit integers where not displayed correctly in Win32 MinGW
8.9.10
'append', 'first', 'last', 'rest', 'slice' (and implicit slicing) now also
available for arrays
(timer 'event 0) did not stop on Win32
a fix in Curl_base64_decode() for bad base64 strings
20% speed up for append on strings and join
8.9.11
'append' did not append correctly to lambda lists, which lost lambda attribute
'qa-net' fixed (this file only tests on UNIX)
8.9.12
'int' did a signed instead of unsigned conversion
'save' did not save global protected symbols in a way they
could be reloaded
8.9.13
'local' like 'let' but no initialization of locals (all nil):
(local (x b x) body)
'swap' has a third syntax pattern to swap the contents of symbols: (swap x y)
8.9.14
speedup and memory savings on 'apply'
fixed INT64->string conversion in sym for True64/WINCC
error checking on all reallocs()
changed to realloc() in writeStream() routines
8.9.15
(join '(1 2 3)) was hanging, instead of wrong datatype error message
support "\x41\x42\xff" in string hex format equivalent to "\065\066\255"
new 'ref-all' returns a list of index vectors for all ref's of an expression
(ref-all 'a '(a b c (d a f (a h a)) (k a (m n a) (x))))
=> ((0) (3 1) (3 3 0) (3 3 2) (4 1) (4 2 2))
9.0.0 Release October 15th, 2006
9.0.1
'read-file' did not read extended http:// mode parameters correctly
new 'doargs' works like 'dolist' iterates through (args)
(define (foo) (doargs (i) (println i)))
(foo 1 2 3) => prints 1 2 3
implemented on top of 'dolist' also does $idx and break-expressions
'explode' takes extra parameter for # of characters (works on UTF-8 too):
(explode "newlisp" 2) => ("ne" "wl" "is" "p")
new 'utf8len' length of a string in UTF-8 characters
new scalar matrix operations (matrix is a 2 dimensional list or array):
(set 'A '((1 2 3) (4 5 6))
(set 'B A)
(mat + A B) => ((2 4 6) (8 10 12))
(mat - A B) => ((0 0 0) (0 0 0))
(mat * A B) => ((1 4 9) (16 25 36))
(mat / A B) => ((1 1 1) (1 1 1))
Note that all matrix operations are in floating point
9.0.2
explode works on lists:
(explode '(a b c d e)) => '((a) (b) (c) (d) (e))
(explode '(a b c d e) 2) => '((a b) (c d) (e))
many structural transformations can be done combining 'explode' and 'transpose'
fixed cell-leak in 'ref-all'
in (mat A B) B can be a single number:
(mat + '((1 2 3) (4 5 6)) 2) => ((3 4 5) (6 7 8))
some fixes for HTTP mode on UNIX
HTTP mode now working on Win32 but with some timing issues,
see header of file qa-net for details
9.0.3
$idx was broken after 9.0 starting with 1 instead of 0
9.0.4
fixed midnight rollover in 'timer' on Win32
new (round ) rounds a number to precision digits
left (positive) or rigt (negative) of the decimal point
new hyperbolic functions sinh cosh tanh
fixed push -1 optimization when popping only remaining element in list
new 'ostype' symbol holds os type string
new 'delete-url', needs to be enabled on target www server (most aren't)
else => "ERR: server code 405: HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed\r\n"
and must have file permissions set accordingly on target file;
additional parameters like timeout and custom headers are available
exactly as in 'get-url', the feature is also available in:
(delete-file "http://......"), similar to HTTP mode in 'read-file',
'write-file' and 'append-file' and is also implemented in newlisp
server mode (not working on Win32 newlisp server mode)
GET queries are now supported in newlisp server mode (not yet Win32)
9.0.5
'and' and 'or' now () when failing and last evaluation was ()
GET and POST cgi now working on UNIX and Win32 (9.0.6)
new -w commandline switch
useful for changing working directory after newlisp startup:
newlisp -c -d 8080 -w /Users/lutz/ide
this is the same as going into the directory and starting newlisp
newlisp -c -d 8080
newlisp can now run as a webserver doing newlisp based CGI. It runs both
newlisp-ide-x.x.tgz and newlisp-wiki-x.x.tgz, to run the ide on the local
machine:
newlisp -c -d 8080 -w /usr/home/www/ide
then in a webbrowser enter the URL http://localhost:8080/
index.cgi and index.html are looked for by default if no filename is
specified in URL
httpd example programm has been eliminated, because httpd mode now built-in
into newLISP
'file-info' now correctly reports filesizes > 2G (2147483647) bytes
now also can index: (file-info 0) => filesize
the -x commandlne switch has been disabled, use newlisp server modes instead
fixed problems with break-condition in dolist/doargs introduced in 9.0.1
fixed problem when break-condition is the loop symbol itself
9.0.6
'nth' now with similar syntax options as 'net-set/set-nth'
new in 'nth':
(nth (L ...))
(nth (L )) ; where is a list of indices
new in 'set=nth', 'nth-set'
(set-nth (L ) )
(nth-set (L ) )
'file-info' now distinguishes in the mode field (12th bit) between links
and normal files:
(define (link? fname) (= 0x2000 (& (file-info fname 1) 0x2000)))
not on Win32, who knows the correct Win32 function for lstat() on MinGW gcc?A
9.0.7
HTTP server mode looks for procedure httpd-conf for processing/transforming
the path-file-name of the request. This way security checks, remappings etc
can be performed. In this case a file httpd.conf containing the definition
of httpd-conf can be loaded when starting the server:
newlisp httpd.conf -c -d 8080 -w www/httpddocs
if the file httpd.conf contains:
(define (httpd-conf request)
(if (ends-with request ".exe") "errorpage.html" request))
now any request for a file which finishes in .exe will be transformed into a
request for errorpage.html containing an error message for the client.
fixed HTTP server mode crash on LINUX
fixed 'nth' which failed on old mode when indices where expressions
9.0.8
new syntax of 'nth' should work on protected symbols
new syntax of 'set-nth/nth-set' did not check for index maximum of 16
make httpd-conf safe for non-string returns
server mode now correctly remaps directory paths when performing CGI
in directories not web root, i.e. http://ahost.com:/ide/ will work with CGI,
note that directories need to end with "/" to make the resolve to index.html
or iondex.cgi work correctly
new -http flag like -c (suppressing prompts) but only allow HTTP commands
no newLISP statements (-c allows both), this is a 'safe' HTTP mode not
allowing 'net-eva' or other commandline protocols.
The following configurations can be used:
(1) serve HTTP requests only
newlisp -http -d -w
newlisp -http -w # started vi INIX inetd or xinetd
(2) serve 'net-eval', HTTP and command line without prompt
newlisp -c -d -w
newlisp -c -w # started via UNIX inetd or xinetd
this mode is useful when running newLISP server in a controlled environment
behind a secured firewall in a distributed computing environment where
newLISP server must answer to both: net-eval and HTTP requests.
Note that on Win32 a \tmp directory must be created on the same drive
which is current for CGI processes for newLISP HTTP mode to work correctly
for CGI processing. On UNIX /tmp is standard.
fixed 'invert' crash (since v.9.0.2) on not-invertible matrices
upgraded to better random number generation in 'rand' and 'random'
(not available on Win32)
fixed (rotate '(1) -1)
9.0.9
another fix for 'nth' and protected symbols
if 'httpd-conf' returns 'nil' nothing will be processed, this can be
used to completely hand off CGI request processing to httpd-conf
9.0.10
moved env variable creation of DOCOUMENT_ROOT earlier, so it is available
in httpd-conf.lsp
added httpd-conf.lspi to the examples directory in the source distribution,
now filters csertain file extensions and does not allow access to files
outside the web directory tree specified with the -w option:
newlisp httpd-conf.lsp -http -d 8080 -w /wwwdocs
or outside the startup directory if no -w is given, also takes care
of request for directories when no trailing '/' is present
cleaned up nthArray and implicitIndexList/array code
trying to 'set-nth' and empty list should return the empty list not nil
more tests in qa-dot and qa-comma for symbol protection and 'nth'
9.0.11
rework of whole indexing area, now correctly honors symbol protection in
all modes if symbol is nested inside an expression. The old flat mode:
(nth i j alist)
is much slower, instead use one of the following modes:
(nth (alist i j)) or (alist i j) or (nth (alist aref)) or (alist aref)
ehere aref is a list of nymbers, i.e.: (1 2), same modes in set-nth,nth-set
reworked nil and empty list detection throughout all files. 'nil' and the
empty list '() are logic false, things work like this:
(map true? '(nil () 0 "")) => (nil nil true true)
(map nil? '(nil () 0 "")) => (true nil nil nil)
(map not '(nil () 0 "")) => (true true nil nil)
(map null? '(nil () 0 "")) => (true true true true)
in v9.0.0:
(true? '()) => true, which was wrong because also
(true? (not '()) => true, which is correct
this affects filter and index usage with true? as predicate, but does not
affect: if, unless, while, until, do-while, do-until, which always worked
correctly assuming '() as logical false
'name' also can take contexts i.e.:
(set 'L:L '(a b cd)) (set 'x L) (name x) => "L"
now when evaluating a context by itself it returns the default symbol
if the default symbol does not exists it gets created:
(set 'foo:foo '(a b c d e f g))
(foo) => foo:foo
(eval (foo)) => '(a b c d e f g)
this can be used for reference passing:
(define (mysort ctx func)
(sort (eval (ctx)) func))
(mysort foo >) => (g f e d c b a)
foo:foo => (g f e d c b a)
previously a passed context could only be used for functions using
index lists and implicit indexing as in (nth-set (ctx idx) value) etc.
now functions working on the entire list can be used with reference passed
data. THIS FUNCTIONALITY HAS BEEN DISABLED IN 9.0.14, as a workaround
use (sym (name ctx) ctx) to retrieve the functor
9.0.12
the newLISP-tk installer now contains a file md5-checksums.txt with
checksums for newlisp-tk.exe, newlisp.exe and newlisp.dll
bit not ~ was still on 32 bits now 64 like all integer arithmetik since 9.0
all buffer variables moved to size_t and ssize_t type in preparation for
64-bit model LP64 compile for 64-bit memory addressing.
get-char, get-int, get-float and get-string failed when using on 64-bit
addresses, which where not truncated correctly on little-endian CPUs.
This affected the mysql.lsp and mysql5.lsp modules when using with newLISP
versions 8.9.7 and later and on Intel CPUs. On Mac PPC and other big-endian
architectures this problem did not occur. All other modules where not affected
on any architecture.
<,>,<=,>=,= when given only one argument compare agains 0, "" or (),
all other data types return true as before
(< 1) =>nil, (= 0) =>true, (> "abc") => true, (= "") =>true etc.
64-bit file poisitioning fixed under Win32 (now runs qa-lfs)
9.0.13
fixed problems in the new <,>,<=,>=,= single argument feature
9.0.14
further fix in 64-bit ~ function
a context feature intoduced in 9.0.11 to extract the default functor from an
unknown context has been disabled, instead use the workaround:
(set 'foo:foo '(a b c d e f g))
(set 'ctx foo)
(sym (name ctx) ctx) => foo:foo
(sort (eval (sym (name ctx) ctx)) >) => (g f e d c b a)
foo:foo => (g f e d c b a)
a more elegant way will be supplied in the future
both string and list versions of 'explode' now return an empty list if optional
length <= 0
'nt-set/set-nth' did not honor constant protection of default functors
now compiles for LP64 64-bit memory model on 64-bit LINUX using the makefile:
make -f makefile_linux64LP64
or simply:
make linux64LP64
the old makefile for making a ILP32 32-bit newlisp on 64-bit LINUX has been
renamed:
make -f makefile_linux64ILP32
or simply:
make linux64ILP32
tested on a AMD64 CPU with LINUX 2.6 64-bit Fedora 3
enjoy up to 17,179,869,184 gigabytes or 16 exabytes of RAM, on AMD64
the LP64 compiled version is 12 to 25% faster than the ILP32 version
avoid sign extension when unpacking signed 32bit into unsigned 32bit displayed
in 64-bit: (unpack "lu" (pack "ld" -1)) => (4294967295) ; not (-1)
added 'get-long' and "Ld", "Lu" 64-bit packing formats
new 'parse-date' for parsing date strings (not yet working for Win32)
9.0.15
more manual additions and changes, moved all predicates into own group
fixed dynamic symbols compare
fixed warnings fo missing -Wno-strict-alasing GCC message on older Solaris
and BSD GCC versions
fixed parsing of [text] tag on 64-bit compiles
fixed 'flt' for TRU64 compile
tried Linux debian package, Ok on Ubuntu, will be included from now on
in newlisp.org releases, but appreciate help in getting it into Ubunto
and Debian for inclusion into their lists
The Tru64UNIX compile using makefile_tru64 is now a large pointer model LP64
compile, thanks to Peter for porting and testing on an Alpha CPU
added makefile_darwin_LP64 for 64-bit compile/link, but cannot test it
on my PPC-G4 (I believe I need a G5 for this)
fixed 'char' on UTF-8, bug due to 64-bit changes
LP64 mode for Solaris workng, use makefile_solarisLP64
new 'make test' to run qa-dot, qa-net, qa-xml
9.0.16
OS/2 compile flavor now part of distribution
fix for Solaris in some networking routines broken in 9.0.2 !
fixed: (dup x -1), which was broken since 9.0.14
'make test' now does qa-dot, qa-xml, qa-setsig, qa-net all one after
another. The qa-setsig script will drop out on Win32 with a message.
A small change in the 'test-process' routine in the qa-dot script will
cause less failure message for 'process' on slow computers.
qa-dot now will set to locale "en_US' when testing an UTF-8 version,
this has been done to suppress failure messages for UTF-8 'upper-case'
and 'lower-case' which do not work in the default 'C' locale in
UTF-8 mode on some platforms.
qa-comma always sets to "de_DE"
'asinh', 'acosh', 'atanh' complete the triginometric functions
up to 8 'callback' routines cain be defined to be called by an imported
library, example for Glut lib:
(glutDisplayFunc (callback 0 'draw))
(glutKeyboardFunc (callback 1 'keyboard))
(glutMouseFunc (callback 2 'mouse))
up to four parameters (32-bit ints) are received by the user-defined
callback handlers. See the file newlisp-9.0.16/examples/opengl-demo.lsp
for details. Note that OpenGL passes floating point data, which are only
handled correctly on x86 based platforms. On the Mac PPC this file will
not work (although the callback interface itself does work, but no
drawing will be visible).
9.0.17
fixed 'non-blocking' bug for write on Linux, thanks Peter!
number of maximum cells was not reported correctly in 64-bit newLISP
'ref' and 'ref-all' now can take a comparison functor (like 'sort') for
comparison: (ref-all key List func), if no func is specified
assumes = (equal), ref-all now much faster on big lists with many finds.
'find' and 'replace' (both in their list forms) can take a comparison
functor like 'sort', 'ref', 'ref-all'.
'replace' for lists now also processes $0 (old entry) in replacement
expression.
using replace for lists with 'match' or 'unify' as comparison functor
makes 'replace' as powerful as 'replace for strings with regular expressions.
This is an important new feature with many applications. It also gives
the much overlooked 'match' and 'unify' the more frequent usage they deserve.
new logic functions 'exists' and 'for-all' apply a condition to each
element in a list and return the result.
match now will accept atoms in the entry expressions to make it usable
for 'ref' and 'ref-all'
9.0.18
fixed a bug in (pop )
9.0.19
(find [