retroforth/RELEASE-NOTES
crc e812604b69 begin use of .retro instead of .forth
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# RETRO 2019.7
This is the changelog for the development builds of Retro.
The version number is likely to change; I'm targetting an
early July window for this release.
## Bug Fixes
- all
- strl* functions now renamed, included on all builds
- `d:add-header` is extended by retro.forth to remap
spaces back to underscores when creating headers
- fix overflow issue with `n:MIN`, `n:MAX`
- build
- fix compile issue under Solaris
- retro-unix
- `clock:year` corrected
- `clock:month` corrected
- examples
- fixed issue in mail.forth
## Build
- Merged Linux & BSD Makefiles
## Core Language
- new words
- `a:fetch`
- `a:store`
- `s:replace-all`
- renamed
- `a:nth` to `a:th`
- `v:update-using` to `v:update`
- performance improvements
- `times`
- `times<with-index>`
- `while`
- `until`
## Documentation
- merged BSD, Linux, macOS build instructions
- updated Starting instructions
- added implementation notes on arrays
- updated the initial word table in rx.muri
- added a man page for retro-describe
## Toolchain
- fixed a bug in the glossary server
## Examples
- new examples
- bury.forth
- compat.forth
- gopher.forth
- magic-8th-ball.forth
- mandelbrot.forth
- RFC865.forth
- RFC867.forth
- shell.forth
- sqlite3 wrapper
- unix-does-user-exist.forth
- improved examples
- 99bottles.forth
- edit.forth
- other
- publish-examples.forth now uses `retro-document`
to generate glossaries
## General
- reorganized directory tree
## I/O
- retro-unix (rre)
- added `clock:utc:` namespace
- remove gopher downloader
- add sockets interface
- add `unix:slurp-pipe`
## Interfaces
- retro-compiler
- runtime now supports scripting arguments
- retro-unix
- remove FullScreenListener
- ok prompt now a hook
- rewrite the listener
- retro-c#
- restored this to the source tree
- native
- better `0x` prefix handling
## Notes for the future:
In a future release, the examples will start using a `.retro`
file name extension rather than `.forth` to avoid possible
confusion with other systems that use `.forth` (e.g., MPE).