| Function |
Description |
array |
(array i j k aList),
returns a 1
to 8 dimensional array and initializes optionally from flat list in
aList; all array acces modification via nth, set-nth and nth-set |
array-list |
(array-list myArray)
returns a
list conversion of myArray |
array? |
(aray? expr) tests
if expression
is a list |
source |
Returns the source to bind a
symbol in a string. Eliminates the need for a tmp
directory in new newlisp-tk |
| Function |
Description |
| deprecated functions eliminated |
all deprecated functions thrown
out: concat, remove, replace-nth,
sublist, substring, read-process,
read-url, write-process.
All have functional equivalent replacements with same syntax but
different names, see
manual chapter of Deprecated
Functions for detail. |
| modules |
changed cgi.lsp, stat.lsp,
spam-filter, httpd for deprecated
functions |
| dynamic context variables |
dynamic context var refs now
work inside contexts, this makes it possible to call constructors
from inside the class context |
format |
(format "%d" 1.23)
=> "1"
before this was not permitted(format "%5.2f" 10) => "10.00"
also allowed now |
seek |
(seek 0) now
returns numbers of
characters printed to stdout, works on BSD but on LINUX and Win32
will always return -1 |
integer |
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 |
float |
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 |
xml-parse |
1000+ times speedup in XML
parsing of bigger (several 100k) files |
net-listen, net-receive |
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 |
net-send-udp |
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 |
constant |
expansion of functionality
constant
primitive: now also protects against changes of variable contents by set-nth,
net-set, dotimes, for,
dolist, import and dotree.
Previousy it protected only from changes by set, set!,
setq, define and define-macro |
open |
"non-block" or "n"
as additional
option after "read" or "write" option in open
primitive (useful for
opening named pipes) |
net-select |
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 sockets |
apply |
apply works
reducing a list when
additional reduce count is
given |
load |
load takes multiple filenames |
sys-info |
the last number for operating
system flavor will show: 7 for Win32 DLL |
| newlisp-tk |
now has a UNIX man page 8.0.2 |
array |
now up to 16 indices 8.0.2 |
| RPM |
rpm package now part of release
8.0.2 |
$ |
system variables in regular
expression can now also be access using ($ 0) ($ 1) ... etc. 8.0.5 |
env |
env can be used instead of
deprecated getenv, putenv and environ
with same functionality 8.0.6 |
| Function |
Description |
| source, save |
arrays where not serialized
correctly in source and save (fixed in v. 8.0.2) |
rotate |
(rotate '())
crashed because of
list length zero |
catch throw |
fixed nested catch throw |
nth |
nth didn't work on
lambda expressions in 7502 |
-p -d |
logging did not work as
described (was always on with -p -d) |
net-send |
Broken Pipe on net-send
now
handled correctly on Linux/BSD is handled by socket stack on Win32 |
slice |
(slice str 1 -1)
does not crash
anymore (length arg should never be negative) |
process |
defunct zombie child processes
now cleaned up by 'process' on UNIXs |
regex |
fixed potential bug in regex
replace when replacement expression evaluates to no-string |
| error messages |
error message length limited to
1024 characters |
| newLISP-tk |
now starts even if primary fonts
are not found |
| arrays |
where not serialized correctly
in save and string 8.0.1 |
| parse |
will not stay in an infinite
loop when the break string is empty 8.0.3 |
| constant |
did not allow multiple arguments
8.0.3 |
| filter |
noew filters nil symbols
correctly 8.0.5 |
| error messages |
a cell leak was fixed occurring
under error conditions catched with catch |
| Ctrl-C |
Ctrl-C handler simple on Win32
and with continue, exit, reset menu on LINUX/BSD |
| modules |
added txt2pdf.lsp
as a new
module in the module directory. httpd
v.3.5 (8.0.2) |
| documentation |
new chapter about linking LISP
source and executable |
| documentation | new manual sub-chapter about Variable names and numbers syntax
in chapter Writing
applications with newLISP and Tcl/Tk |
| documentation | two additional file for viewing
manual in frames with index |
| documentation | Unix man page added (thanks
Nigel Brown) |
| Win32 installer |
the Win32 installer puts entries
in startmenu including an uninstall, the WIn32 installer puts a newLISP
icon in desktop and startmenu links |