retroforth/RELEASE_NOTES.md

RETRO 2019.12

This is the changelog for the development builds of Retro. The version number is likely to change; I'm targetting a July window for this release.

Bug Fixes

• (all) strl* functions now renamed, included on all builds
• (all) d:add-header is extended by retro.forth to remap spaces back to underscores
• (doc) fixed stack comments in glossary
• (ex ) fixed issue in mail.forth
• (rre) clock:year corrected
• (rre) clock:month corrected

Build

• Merged Linux & BSD Makefiles
• Now builds on Solaris

Core Language

• rename: a:nth to a:th
• rename: v:update-using to v:update
• add: a:fetch
• add: a:store
• add: s:replace-all
• faster: times
• faster: times<with-index>
• faster: while
• faster: until

Documentation

• merged BSD, Linux, macOS build instructions
• updated Starting instructions
• added implementation notes on arrays

Examples

• add bury.forth
• add compat.forth
• add gopher.forth
• add magic-8th-ball.forth
• add mandelbrot.forth
• add shell.forth
• add sqlite3 wrapper
• add unix-does-user-exist.forth
• improved 99bottles.forth
• improved edit.forth
• corrected an issue in mail.forth
• cleanup publish-examples.forth
• publish-examples.forth now uses retro-document to generate glossaries

General

• reorganized directory tree

I/O

• (rre) added clock:utc: namespace
• (rre) remove gopher downloader
• (rre) add sockets interface
• (rre) add unix:slurp-pipe

Interfaces

• retro-compiler: runtime now supports scripting arguments
• retro-unix: replaces earlier rre.c
• retro-windows: rre, adapted for windows
• retro-unix: remove FullScreenListener
• retro-unix: ok prompt now a hook
• retro-unix: rewrite the listener