retroforth/RELEASE_NOTES.md

RETRO 12 - 2018.8

RETRO 12.2018.8 brings a significant number of changes to the language. Of particular note is the renaming of I/O words to group them into the standard namespaces. This will require a modest amount of changes to existing sources.

Bug fixes:

• use CELL instead of int in the VM
• glossary.forth now renders < > and & when serving the index as HTML

Build

Core Language

• renamed s:with-format to s:format
• renamed puts to s:put
• renamed putn to n:put
• renamed putf to f:put
• renamed putc to c:put
• renamed getc to c:get
• renamed gets to s:get
• renamed words to d:words
• add d:words-with
• add set:make
• add { and } to create sets
• removed tors

Interfaces

• rre:

  • rewrote command line handler
  • added "-t" command line argument to run tests
  • no longer use ```` for code blocks; use ~~~ instead
  • use ```` for automated tests
  • added f:NAN
  • added f:INF
  • added f:-INF
  • added f:nan?
  • added f:inf?
  • added f:-inf?
  • added f:sqrt
  • added f:round
  • added file:open<for-reading>
  • added file:open<for-append>
  • added file:open<for-writing>

• javascript/html

  • cleaned up user interface (closer to the iOS UI now)
  • simplified, cleaned up CSS a bit

Other:

Documentation:

• Glossary expanded to cover the new words

Examples:

• fix numerous spelling errors (thanks hannah!)
• add example showing a means of addressing specific bytes
• add example showing assertions
• add example showing hooks/deferred words
• add Casket, an HTTP/1.1 server
• add example showing a means of encoding floating point values into integer cells

Final Notes: