retroforth/RELEASE_NOTES.md

RETRO 12 - 2017.12

Bug fixes:

• Now builds using GCC (thanks to wuehlmaus in the IRC channel for discovering a bug related to the order of linker arguments when dealing with GCC)
• Now builds on older Ubuntu systems with broken GNU make.

Language Improvements:

• ASCII constants are now using class:data (reducing image size by nearly 500 cells and removing call/return overhead when used)
• s:with-format now supports _
• Added s:split-on-string
• Added s:index-of-string
• Added s:replace
• Added s:tokenize
• Added s:tokenize-on-string

Interfaces:

• RRE has significant improvements.

  • Added gets to read a string

  • a unix: namespace with access to system-specific functionality:

    • unix:system
    • unix:popen
    • unix:pclose
    • unix:fork
    • unix:wait
    • unix:exec0
    • unix:exec1
    • unix:exec2
    • unix:exec3
    • unix:getpid
    • unix:kill
    • unix:getenv
    • unix:putenv
    • unix:chdir
    • unix:write
    • unix:sleep

  • Additions to f:

    • f:sin
    • f:cos
    • f:tan
    • f:asin
    • f:acos
    • f:atan

  • Addtions to file:

    • file:spew

  • Interactive mode (line buffered) when launched with -i:

    rre -i

  • Interactive mode (character buffered) when launched with -c:

    rre -c

  • When launching with -i or -c you can also use -f to specify a file to load:

    rre -c -f filename.ext

  • bin/listener now uses rre directly and no longer has to copy the RETRO code into a temporary file.

Other:

• added a c# implementation of the REPL

Documentation:

• Added a Building.md with some notes on the build process.
• Fixed formatting issues in the LICENSE.md (thanks to Mateusz Piotrowski)
• Added a database (tab separated data) of the words
• Added a glossary tool to search, edit, and extract data from the words database

Examples:

• Added edit.forth, a functional text/code editor

Final Notes:

Special thanks go to wuehlmaus for his help in testing everything and very useful feedback.