retroforth/RELEASE_NOTES.md

RETRO 12 - 2018.12

In this release, the executables have been renamed to avoid naming conflicts with other applications and packages.

old name       new name
==========     ================
rre            retro
embedimage     retro-embedimage
extend         retro-extend
muri           retro-muri
repl           retro-repl
ri             retro-ri
unu            retro-unu

The addition of the new | prefix makes compiler macros easier to write. Contrast:

:IF   &[ class:macro ; immediate
:THEN &] class:macro &choose class:word ; immediate

:IF   |[ ; immediate
:THEN |] |choose ; immediate

Bug Fixes

Build

• add Makefile.linux to help with building on some Linux systems
• recreate bin if it's not present

Core Language

• add c:to-number
• minor optimizations throughout
• s:format now treats \0 as ASCII NUL
• added prefix:| for use with compiler macros
• inline some stack shufflers for better performance and code density

Interfaces

retro (formerly rre)

• moved Windows implementation to interfaces/windows
• now starts the listener when run w/o any arguments
• added -s command line parameter to silence input echo & ok prompt
• merged in the FloatingPointEncoding words (u: namespace)
• added f:store, f:fetch

Tools

• added commentary to Unu

Other

Documentation

• Glossary expanded to cover the new words

Examples

Final Notes