Removed public functions FEtype_error_plist().
Low level function getf() and get() renamed as ecl_get[f]().
Simplified the loops which deal with property lists.
Assertions ASSERT and CHECK-TYPE moved from conditions.lisp to assert.lisp; old definitions removed.
+ The bytecodes compiler now alloes a lambda list with &key and no keywords
+ WITH-HASHTABLE-ITERATOR implemented
+ QUIT is now silent
+ In MAKE-PATHNAME, values supplied with a value of NIL would be overwritten
by the content of :DEFAULTS.
delimiter_char removed. Function readc_stream and unreadc_stream renamed
to ecl_getc and ecl_ungetc. They now have a C-like behavior, do not
complain about EOF and return the special value EOF when the end of the
file is reached.
instance, now "HOME:FOO.LISP" matches the translation rule
("**/*.*" "~/**/*.*"), which formerly it did not. Also, add a logical
hostname for the home directory.
LAMBDA-PARAMETERS-LIMIT are both 64. Up to C-ARGUMENTS-LIMIT may be
passed to a function using C calling conventions. If the function is
to retrieve more arguments, (for instance through a &rest variable),
this can be done, but then the arguments have to be pushed on the lisp
stack. This method allows us to raise the CALL-ARGUMENTS-LIMIT up to
MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM. From a users point of view, there is no visible
change, excep the fact that a function may receive more arguments.
The function apply() has been replaced with cl_apply_from_stack().
The former took a pointer to the list of arguments. The latter assumes
that the last "narg" elements on the lisp stack are the arguments of
the function.
(DEFSETF XY (&KEY X Y) (STORE) ...).
* GET-SETF-EXPANSION now avoids generating temporary variables for immediate
values, such as keywords and integers.
* define-setf-method -> define-setf-expander,
* get-setf-method -> get-setf-expansion.
* (setf-expand-1) Now relies completely on get-setf-expansion and
macros are no longer favored over setf expanders.
* Export added reinitialize-instance, shared-initialize and
update-instance-for-redefined-class
+Deftype BIT-VECTOR would not expand to a vector type.
+Each compiled file has an entry point whose name is either
init_CODE() or another name based on the name of the source file.
The algorithm for computing these names has been slightly changed
so that the entry points of ECLS's own library do not conflict with
user defined entry points.
+A LET/LET* form in which the initializers for a variable have not
the expected type produce a warning, but the code is accepted. For
instance (LET (V) (DECLARE (TYPE FIXNUM V)) (SETQ V 1)) now
compiles.
+(SETF name), where name is a symbol, is now a valid function name in all
contexts. It is accepted by DEFUN, FUNCTION, FBOUNDP, FMAKUNBOUND, etc,
and it can be the on the function position in any form.
+New specialized arrays for (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) and (SIGNED-BYTE 8).
These hash tables can be dumped to help files which are understood by ECLS.
Most documentation strings have been moved back to the lisp source files
from which "SYS:help.doc" is built.
