gmane.lisp.clisp.announce

ILC

Sam Steingold — 2008-10-29T13:30:48

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS INTERNATIONAL LISP CONFERENCE 2009 Lisp: The Next 50 Years http://www.international-lisp-conference.org Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA March 22-25, 2009 Sponsored by the Association of Lisp Users General Information: The Association of Lisp Users is pleased to announce the 2009 International Lisp Conference will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sunday through Wednesday, March 22-25, 2009. The emphasis will be on present and future applications of technologies that have been or might soon be associated with the Lisp programming language and/or related languages and software. We encourage submissions in diverse areas, including but not limited to: language design and implementation, memory management, software engineering, mathematical and scientific computing, artificial intelligence, database processing and data mining, business intelligence, performance analysis, parallel processing, quantum computing, bioinformatics, telecommunications and networking, the semantic web, music, domain-specific languages, and entertainment technologies. ILC09 is not limited to topics discussed in previous symposia. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic may communicate by electronic mail with the program chair prior to submission. Explaining a known idea in a new way may make as strong a contribution as inventing a new one. We encourage the submission of "pearls": elegant essays that illustrate an idea, for example by developing a short program. (A pearl should be concise, instructive, self-contained, and entertaining. Your pearl is likely to be rejected if your readers get bored, if the material gets too complicated, if too much specialized knowledge is needed, or if the writing is inelegant. The key to writing a good pearl is polishing.) There is no formal separation of categories and no need to explicitly label pearls as such: all papers, whether pearl or otherwise, will be judged on a combination of correctness, significance, novelty, clarity, and elegance. Each paper should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. Authors should strive to make their papers understandable to a broad audience. Alongside our usual four-day program of tutorials, prominent invited speakers, and excellent technical sessions, this year we will also consider demonstration sessions. The official language of the conference is English. Further details are available at the conference web site: http://www.international-lisp-conference.org Technical Program: Original submissions in all areas related to the conference themes are invited for the following categories. Papers: Technical papers of up to 15 pages that describe original results ("research papers") or explain known ideas in new ways ("pearls"). Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for demonstrations of tools, libraries, and applications. Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to 180 minutes. Panel discussions: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for discussions about current themes. Panel discussion proposals must mention panel members who are willing to partake in a discussion. Lightning talks: Abstracts of up to one page for talks to last for no more than 5 minutes. Important Dates: Please send contributions before the submission deadline to the program committee (ilc09-program-committee at alu.org). Deadline for submissions: December 9, 2009 Notification of acceptance or rejection: January 9, 2009 Deadline for final paper submissions: February 9, 2009 Organizing Committee: Conference Chair: Daniel Weinreb (ITA Software) General correspondence: ilc09-organizing-committee at alu.org Program Chair: Guy L. Steele Jr. (Sun Microsystems Laboratories) Contact: ilc09-program-committee at alu.org Local chair: Howard Shrobe (MIT) Technical Program Committee: to be announced soon -- ________________________________________ Daniel Weinreb http://danweinreb.org/blog/ Lisp: The Next 50 Years: http://ilc09.org

GNU CLISP 2.47 (2008-10-23) released

Sam Steingold — 2008-10-24T03:01:13

ANSI Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. GNU CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe University and Michael Stoll of Munich University, both in Germany. It conforms to the ANSI Common Lisp standard, and offers many extensions. It runs on most GNU and Unix systems (GNU/Linux, GNU/Hurd, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Tru64, HP-UX, BeOS, IRIX, AIX, Mac OS X and others) and on other systems (Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista, Windows 95/98/ME) and needs only 4 MB of RAM. It is Free Software and may be distributed under the terms of GNU GPL, while it is possible to distribute commercial proprietary applications compiled with GNU CLISP. The user interface comes in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian and Danish, and can be changed during run time. GNU CLISP includes an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, CLOS, MOP, a foreign language interface, a socket interface, i18n, fast bignums, arbitrary precision floats and more. An X11 interface is available through CLX, Garnet, CLUE/CLIO. GNU CLISP runs Maxima, ACL2 and many other Common Lisp packages. More information at , , and . Sources and selected binaries are available by anonymous ftp from and its mirrors. 2.47 (2008-10-23) ================= Important notes --------------- * New module DBUS interfaces to the D-Bus message bus system. See for details. * New function EXT:PROBE-PATHNAME can figure out whether the existing pathname refers to a file or a directory. See for details. * New function EXT:CANONICALIZE lets you easily canonicalize a value before processing it. See for details. * New user variable CUSTOM:*REOPEN-OPEN-FILE* controls CLISP behavior when opening an already open file. See for details. * New SETFable function OS:FILE-SIZE extends FILE-LENGTH to pathname designators and lets you change file size. See for details. New function OS:USER-SHELLS returns the list of legal user shells. See for details. New SETFable functions OS:HOSTID and OS:DOMAINNAME. See for details. * Module readline has been upgraded to readline 5.2 (older versions 5.0 and 5.1 are, of course, still supported). See for details. * LOAD now uses DIRECTORY only for wild *LOAD-PATHS* components, thus speeding up the most common cases and preventing the denial-of-service attack whereas CLISP would not start if a file with a name incompatible with *PATHNAME-ENCODING* is present in USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME. * ROOM now prints some GC statistics and returns the same values as GC. See for details. * New user variable CUSTOM:*HTTP-LOG-STREAM* controls EXT:OPEN-HTTP logging. See for details. * Bug fixes: + Comparison of floats and rationals never underflows. [ 2014262 ] + When failing to convert a huge LONG-FLOAT to a RATIONAL, signal an ARITHMETIC-ERROR instead of blowing the stack. [ 2015118 ] + Restored TYPECODES g++ compilation [ 2015118 ], which allowed fixing a few GC-safety bugs. + Fixed a segfault when signaling some UNBOUND-VARIABLE errors in some interpreted code on MacOS X (introduced in 2.46). [ 2020784 ] Thanks to Vladimir Tzankov gmail.com>. + Fixed input after switching a :DOS stream to binary. [ 2022362 ] + Support circular objects in EQUAL and EQUALP hash-tables. [ 2029069 ] + Avoid C namespace pollution. [ 2146126 ] + Fix timeout precision in NEW-CLX. [ 2188102 ] * ANSI compliance: + The sets of declaration and type names are disjoint. + FLET, LABELS and MACROLET respect declarations.

D-Bus CLISP module is available from CVS

Sam Steingold — 2008-07-31T22:00:39

Hi A new CLISP FFI module dbus interfaces to the D-Bus message bus system. See . The sources are available from . Please try it out. Sam.

GNU CLISP 2.46 (2008-07-02) released

Sam Steingold — 2008-07-02T16:23:47

GNU CLISP 2.45 (2008-05-15) released

Sam Steingold — 2008-05-15T14:51:00

GNU CLISP 2.44 (2008-02-02) released

Sam Steingold — 2008-02-03T03:34:23

GNU CLISP 2.43 (2007-11-18) released

Sam Steingold — 2007-11-18T18:44:16

GNU CLISP 2.42 (2007-10-16) released

Sam Steingold — 2007-10-16T16:54:32

GDBM module available

Masayuki Onjo — 2007-09-11T15:17:44

Hello, everyone. I made a GDBM interface module for the CLISP. You can download it from: http://lispuser.net/files/clisp/gdbm.tar.gz It provides the GNU Database Manager (GDBM) interface that manages data files that contation key/data pairs. Regards -- Masayuki Onjo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/

GNU CLISP 2.41 (2006-10-13) released

Sam Steingold — 2006-10-13T04:55:10

GNU CLISP 2.41 (2006-10-13) released

Sam Steingold — 2006-10-13T04:55:10

GNU CLISP 2.40 (2006-09-23)

Sam Steingold — 2006-10-01T19:09:17

GNU CLISP 2.39 (2006-07-16)

Sam Steingold — 2006-07-17T17:27:40

GNU CLISP 2.38 (2006-01-24) released

Sam Steingold — 2006-01-24T17:37:35

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.lang.lisp as well. ANSI Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. GNU CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe University and Michael Stoll of Munich University, both in Germany. It mostly supports the Lisp described in the ANSI Common Lisp standard. It runs on most GNU and Unix systems (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Tru64, HP-UX, BeOS, NeXTstep, IRIX, AIX and others) and on other systems (Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98/ME) and needs only 4 MB of RAM. It is Free Software and may be distributed under the terms of GNU GPL, while it is possible to distribute commercial proprietary applications compiled with GNU CLISP. The user interface comes in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian and Danish, and can be changed at run time. GNU CLISP includes an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, CLOS, MOP, a foreign language interface, sockets, i18n, fast bignums and more. An X11 interface is available through CLX, Garnet, CLUE/CLIO. GNU CLISP runs Maxima, ACL2 and many other Common Lisp packages. More information at , , and . Sources and selected binaries are available by anonymous ftp from and its mirrors. 2.38 (2006-01-24) ================= User visible changes -------------------- * SAVEINITMEM can create standalone executables. Thanks to Frank Buß frank-buss.de> for the idea. SAVEINITMEM also accepts :NORC argument do disable RC-file loading. See for details. * POSIX:SYSLOG no longer recognizes "%m" and other formatting instructions. For your safety and security, please do all formatting in Lisp. * Fixed the OPEN :IF-EXISTS :APPEND bug introduced in 2.37. * Fixed a crash on woe32 in opening files with names longer than MAX_PATH. * Module berkeley-db now supports Berkeley DB 4.4.

GNU CLISP 2.37 (2006-01-02)

Sam Steingold — 2006-01-02T17:07:30

GNU CLISP 2.36

Sam Steingold — 2005-12-05T00:58:15

CLISP 2.35 (2005-08-29) released

Sam Steingold — 2005-08-29T20:34:32

GNU CLISP 2.34 (2005-07-20)

Sam Steingold — 2005-07-21T14:33:29

ANSI Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. GNU CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe University and Michael Stoll of Munich University, both in Germany. It mostly supports the Lisp described in the ANSI Common Lisp standard. It runs on most Unix workstations (Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Tru64, HP-UX, BeOS, NeXTstep, IRIX, AIX and others) and on other systems (Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98/ME) and needs only 4 MB of RAM. It is Free Software and may be distributed under the terms of GNU GPL, while it is possible to distribute commercial proprietary applications compiled with GNU CLISP. The user interface comes in German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch and Russian, and can be changed at run time. GNU CLISP includes an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, CLOS, MOP, a foreign language interface, sockets, i18n, fast bignums and more. An X11 interface is available through CLX, Garnet, CLUE/CLIO. GNU CLISP runs Maxima, ACL2 and many other Common Lisp packages. More information at , , and . Sources and selected binaries are available by anonymous ftp from and its mirrors. 2.34 (2005-07-20) ================= Important notes --------------- * All .fas files generated by previous CLISP versions are invalid and must be recompiled. This is caused by the addition of MOP, the DEFSETF fixes, and the TRANSLATE-PATHNAME and MAKE-HASH-TABLE enhancements. Set CUSTOM:*LOAD-OBSOLETE-ACTION* to :COMPILE to automate this. See for details. * The name of the Run-Control file has changed from '_clisprc' to '.clisprc' on all platforms. If you are using woe32, please rename your Run-Control file. * Modules i18n, regexp, and syscalls are now present even in the base linking set. Do not pass, e.g., "--with-module=regexp" to configure. User visible changes -------------------- * The CLOS MetaObject Protocol is supported: + New class METAOBJECT. + Classes: New classes STANDARD-READER-METHOD, STANDARD-WRITER-METHOD, FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS. New functions ENSURE-CLASS. New generic functions CLASS-DIRECT-SUPERCLASSES, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST, CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS, CLASS-SLOTS, CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS. New customizable generic functions For class creation: ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS, VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS, COMPUTE-DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-INITARGS, COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST, COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION, COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-INITARGS, COMPUTE-SLOTS, COMPUTE-DEFAULT-INITARGS, READER-METHOD-CLASS, WRITER-METHOD-CLASS. For notification about subclasses: CLASS-DIRECT-SUBCLASSES, ADD-DIRECT-SUBCLASS, REMOVE-DIRECT-SUBCLASS. + Generic Functions: New classes FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS, FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT. New functions ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION, SET-FUNCALLABLE-INSTANCE-FUNCTION, COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-METHOD-AS-FUNCTION. New generic functions GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME, GENERIC-FUNCTION-METHODS, GENERIC-FUNCTION-METHOD-CLASS, GENERIC-FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST, GENERIC-FUNCTION-METHOD-COMBINATION, GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER, GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS. New customizable generic functions ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION-USING-CLASS, COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION, COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS, COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS-USING-CLASSES. + Methods: New generic functions METHOD-FUNCTION, METHOD-GENERIC-FUNCTION, METHOD-LAMBDA-LIST, METHOD-SPECIALIZERS, ACCESSOR-METHOD-SLOT-DEFINITION. New functions EXTRACT-LAMBDA-LIST, EXTRACT-SPECIALIZER-NAMES. + Method-Combinations: New generic function FIND-METHOD-COMBINATION. New customizable generic function COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-METHOD. + Slot-Definitions: New classes SLOT-DEFINITION, STANDARD-SLOT-DEFINITION, DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION, STANDARD-DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION, EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION, STANDARD-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION. New generic functions SLOT-DEFINITION-NAME, SLOT-DEFINITION-INITFORM, SLOT-DEFINITION-INITFUNCTION, SLOT-DEFINITION-TYPE, SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION, SLOT-DEFINITION-INITARGS, SLOT-DEFINITION-READERS, SLOT-DEFINITION-WRITERS, SLOT-DEFINITION-LOCATION. New customizable generic functions DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS, EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS. + Specializers: New classes SPECIALIZER, EQL-SPECIALIZER. New generic functions SPECIALIZER-DIRECT-GENERIC-FUNCTIONS, SPECIALIZER-DIRECT-METHODS. New functions EQL-SPECIALIZER-OBJECT, INTERN-EQL-SPECIALIZER. New customizable generic functions ADD-DIRECT-METHOD, REMOVE-DIRECT-METHOD. + Slot access: New generic functions SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS, (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS, SLOT-MAKUNBOUND-USING-CLASS. New functions STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS, FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS. + Dependent object notification: New functions MAP-DEPENDENTS. New customizable generic functions ADD-DEPENDENT, REMOVE-DEPENDENT, UPDATE-DEPENDENT. See for details, and for a list of differences between CLISP and "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol". *FEATURES* now contains :MOP. * CLISP now supports programming with case sensitive symbols. This is the default when CLISP is started with the new command line option "-modern". See for details. * Several new datatypes that manage weak references: WEAK-LIST, WEAK-AND-RELATION, WEAK-OR-RELATION, WEAK-MAPPING, WEAK-AND-MAPPING, WEAK-OR-MAPPING, WEAK-ALIST. New functions - for WEAK-LIST: MAKE-WEAK-LIST, WEAK-LIST-P, WEAK-LIST-LIST, (SETF WEAK-LIST-LIST), - for WEAK-AND-RELATION: MAKE-WEAK-AND-RELATION, WEAK-AND-RELATION-P, WEAK-AND-RELATION-LIST, - for WEAK-OR-RELATION: MAKE-WEAK-OR-RELATION, WEAK-OR-RELATION-P, WEAK-OR-RELATION-LIST, - for WEAK-MAPPING: MAKE-WEAK-MAPPING, WEAK-MAPPING-P, WEAK-MAPPING-PAIR, WEAK-MAPPING-VALUE, (SETF WEAK-MAPPING-VALUE), - for WEAK-AND-MAPPING: MAKE-WEAK-AND-MAPPING, WEAK-AND-MAPPING-P, WEAK-AND-MAPPING-PAIR, WEAK-AND-MAPPING-VALUE, (SETF WEAK-AND-MAPPING-VALUE), - for WEAK-OR-MAPPING: MAKE-WEAK-OR-MAPPING, WEAK-OR-MAPPING-P, WEAK-OR-MAPPING-PAIR, WEAK-OR-MAPPING-VALUE, (SETF WEAK-OR-MAPPING-VALUE), - for WEAK-ALIST: MAKE-WEAK-ALIST, WEAK-ALIST-P, WEAK-ALIST-TYPE, WEAK-ALIST-CONTENTS, (SETF WEAK-ALIST-CONTENTS), WEAK-ALIST-ASSOC, WEAK-ALIST-RASSOC, WEAK-ALIST-VALUE, (SETF WEAK-ALIST-VALUE). See for details. * You can create formatting streams of class EXT:FILL-STREAM. See for details. * SUBTYPEP can determine subtype relationship and type equivalence much better than it could before. * When *PRINT-READABLY* is true, symbols are now printed with package marker and vertical bars. * ANSI CL compliance issues: + Issue is implemented: The scope of declarations that do not apply to bindings, such as free SPECIAL, NOTINLINE or OPTIMIZE declarations, includes only the body forms and no longer includes the initforms of the LAMBDA/LET/LET*/MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND bindings. + Vectors of element type NIL are now strings in all aspects. But the type BASE-STRING does _not_ include vectors of element type NIL. + TYPE-OF now returns STANDARD-CHAR instead of CHARACTER when possible. + The type COMPILED-FUNCTION no longer encompasses generic functions. + TYPE-OF now returns COMPILED-FUNCTION or STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION instead of FUNCTION when possible. + The space character is printed as "#\ " if CUSTOM:*PRINT-SPACE-CHAR-ANSI* is true. + The # no longer has the nickname "". The syntax :FOO for keywords still works, but is now special cased in the reader. + Class redefinition with DEFCLASS no longer modifies the previous class if it doesn't have a "proper name". + Class redefinition with DEFCLASS removes accessor methods that have been installed through the previous DEFCLASS definition of the same class. + Generic function redefinition with DEFGENERIC removes methods that have been installed through the previous DEFGENERIC definition of the same function. + The set of qualifiers allowed for methods that are combined with a method combination defined through the short form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now includes the name of the method combination instead of the operator. + FIND-METHOD now gives an error if the list of specializers has a wrong length. + ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT, ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT, ARRAY-RANK-LIMIT are now fixnums. + SHORT-FLOATs whose absolute value is an integer in the range between 10^5 and 10^7 are now printed with full precision. + Operations combining rational and floating-point numbers now return a floating-point result if CUSTOM:*FLOATING-POINT-RATIONAL-CONTAGION-ANSI* is true. When the mathematical result in a situation is rational, a warning is issued if CUSTOM:*WARN-ON-FLOATING-POINT-RATIONAL-CONTAGION* is true. + Class redefinition with DEFCLASS now updates existing instances as specified. + An ABORT restart is now always installed. + UPDATE-INSTANCE-FOR-DIFFERENT-CLASS does the required argument checking. + Passing invalid initialization arguments to MAKE-INSTANCE and similar now generates a PROGRAM-ERROR instead of just an ERROR. + Documentation strings are now attached to class objects, not just to their name. + Arrays with total array size 0 are printed in a lossy way if CUSTOM:*PRINT-EMPTY-ARRAYS-ANSI* is true and *PRINT-READABLY* is false. + Allow () to match NIL in destructuring lambda lists. + Documentation strings at a place where only declarations and forms are allowed now give a warning, not an error. + LAST, BUTLAST and NBUTLAST check their list argument for circularity. + Different LOAD-TIME-VALUE forms that are EQUAL but not EQ are no longer coalesced by COMPILE-FILE. + DEFSETF lambda-lists now support &ENVIRONMENT. + DEFSETF lambda-lists are no longer destructuring lambda-lists. + NAMESTRING no longer accepts an optional second argument. + SETF of VALUES now uses only the first value of each subform. + SPECIAL declarations of variables are now correctly respected inside macro expanders defined through MACROLET within the declaration's scope. + (EXPORT NIL), (UNEXPORT NIL), (IMPORT NIL), (SHADOWING-IMPORT NIL), (SHADOW NIL) are now nops. + An attempt to create a condition from an invalid condition designator now always results in a TYPE-ERROR being signalled. + The reader's errors are now of type READER-ERROR when they should be. + READ-DELIMITED-LIST now returns NIL when *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. + Printing of multidimensional arrays now respects *PRINT-LEVEL*. + As required by 19.2.3, *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is merged into pathnames before accessing the file system. + LOGICAL-PATHNAME now gives an error if the argument string does not contain a host specification. + The PRINT-UNREADABLE macro prints extraneous spaces if CUSTOM:*PRINT-UNREADABLE-ANSI* is true. + In the #n= and #n# reader syntax, the integer n may now be larger than 7 digits. + IN-PACKAGE forms with constant arguments are no longer executed by the compiler if they occur in a non-null lexical environment. + COMPILE-FILE now always returns the TRUENAME of its output file. + GET-SETF-EXPANSION now accepts NIL as the environment argument to mean null lexical environment Thanks to Paul F. Dietz dls.net> and his ANSI compliance suite, which helped detect some of these deficiencies. Thanks to Yuji Minejima nifty.ne.jp> and his ANSI compliance suite, which helped detect some of these deficiencies. * Global error handlers can now be installed and removed using EXT:SET-GLOBAL-HANDLER, EXT:WITHOUT-GLOBAL-HANDLERS, and -on-error command line option. See and for details. * TRANSLATE-PATHNAME and TRANSLATE-LOGICAL-PATHNAME accept a new keyword argument :ABSOLUTE which makes them convert their return values to absolute pathnames. See and for details. * New function EXT:ABSOLUTE-PATHNAME. See for details. * New function EXT:ELASTIC-NEWLINE and new FORMAT directive "~.". See and for details. Through this function, CLISP no longer produces spurious blank lines when a program uses the convention of printing a #\Newline before each line. * TRACE has a new option :MAX-DEPTH, that is useful to avoid infinite recursions in the tracer. See for details. * The function LENGTH and a few other sequence functions now signal a TYPE-ERROR when a circular list has been given as argument. * Function UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE is now as precise as possible. See for details. * In non-interactive batch mode, *ERROR-OUTPUT* now uses the system's standard error stream, instead of the standard output stream. * The macros MUFFLE-CERRORS, APPEASE-CERRORS and EXIT-ON-ERROR now treat CONTINUE restarts which require interactive user intervention like other restarts. Only non-interactive CONTINUE restarts are silently invoked. * LOAD :OBSOLETE-ACTION can now also be :COMPILE to automatically recompile the obsolete *.fas file. LOAD can now ignore erroneous forms using SKIP and STOP restarts. See for details. * References from within macros defined through MACROLET to variables or functions defined in the lexical environment outside the MACROLET form now signal an error. Previously, this resulted in undefined behavior. * The FFI recognizes the c-type declaration (FFI:C-POINTER ) to handle references without conversion to/from Lisp structures. See for details. * The FFI variable FFI:*FOREIGN-ENCODING* can now be a multibyte encoding. The warning "*FOREIGN-ENCODING*: reset to ASCII" at startup is gone. * New FFI constructor functions FFI:FOREIGN-VARIABLE and FFI:FOREIGN-FUNCTION, more operators are now exported (FFI:FOREIGN-VALUE, FFI:PARSE-C-TYPE). See and for details. * FFI macro FFI:C-LINES can now be used to fine-tune initialization and finalization. See for details. * New FFI function FFI:CLOSE-FOREIGN-LIBRARY can be used to unload a library. See for details. * New FFI low-level accessor FFI:MEMORY-AS. See for details. * Foreign functions and variables can now be documented using the :DOCUMENTATION option to FFI:DEF-CALL-OUT and FFI:DEF-C-VAR. * Buffered streams now are suitable for interactive streams. It is no longer necessary to use :BUFFERED NIL to avoid blocking in various situations. * Function EXT:READ-BYTE-SEQUENCE takes a new keyword argument :INTERACTIVE. See for details. * Methods on GRAY:STREAM-READ-BYTE-SEQUENCE and GRAY:STREAM-WRITE-BYTE-SEQUENCE now need to accept a second optional argument. * The possible values of the :WEAK argument of MAKE-HASH-TABLE are changed: Use :KEY-AND-VALUE instead of :EITHER, :KEY-OR-VALUE instead of :BOTH now. * The :LIBRARY option argument to EXT:DEF-CALL-OUT and EXT:DEF-C-VAR is now evaluated (i.e., it can now be a variable) and may take a value of :DEFAULT and :NEXT in addition to being a string as before. See and for details. * New user variable CUSTOM:*PRINT-SYMBOL-PACKAGE-PREFIX-SHORTEST* allows using the shortest package (nick)name as the symbol prefix. See for details. * The user commands can now be extended using CUSTOM:*USER-COMMANDS*. See for details. * Initialization and finalization of the CLISP process can now be augmented with CUSTOM:*INIT-HOOKS* and CUSTOM:*FINI-HOOKS*. See and for details. * SET functions (like UNION et al) are now much faster on large lists. * The second, optional argument of EXT:SPECIAL-VARIABLE-P can no longer be T; please use (THE-ENVIRONMENT) instead. * New function EXT:FEATUREP - the run-time version of read-time #+/#-. See for details. * Bug fixes: + The interpreter no longer executes the body of (EVAL-WHEN (COMPILE) ...) forms. + Fixes to internationalized error messages. + When an interpreted INITIALIZE-INSTANCE method uses CALL-NEXT-METHOD with a modified argument list, MAKE-INSTANCE could in some cases initialize the new object three times instead of just once. + Fixed a compiler bug that could lead to incorrect code when a LAMBDA with SPECIAL-declared optional variables was compiled inline and the initforms of the optional variables depended on the values of the previous optional variables. + Passing a package as second argument of RENAME-PACKAGE led to an unjustified error. + Passing a displaced vector as argument to REVERSE could lead to an unjustified error. + FRESH-LINE did not work in some situations. + Fixed ATANH on complex numbers. + The macros EXT:LETF and EXT:LETF* now work correctly on symbol-macros. + Fixed a spurious crash of MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ in interpreted code. + Fixed a crash of (COPY-READTABLE NIL some-readtable). + Fixed a crash when using a hash-table as hash-table key. + Fixed a crash triggered by the READ-BYTE function on streams with element type ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE n), 24 < n < 32, on big-endian platforms. + Fixed a crash that occurred on glibc platforms when writing Unicode characters in the range #\U000E0000..#\U000E007F on a stream with an encoding other than UTF-8. + An invalid bignum could be returned by GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME on 64-bit platforms. + Third party code walkers can now handle HANDLER-BIND et al. * Woe32 distribution now comes with a binary driver clisp.exe. Do not copy it anywhere - create a shortcut to it instead! Use install.bat to automate shortcut creation. Modules ------- * New module matlab interfaces to and allows complicated matrix computations. See for details. * New module rawsock offers low-level socket access. Thanks to Fred and Don Cohens. See for details. * New module zlib interfaces to and allows compression and uncompression of vectors. See for details. * New module i18n now contains the GNU gettext interface as well as other functionality for Lisp program internationalization. See for details. * New module PARI interfaces to . See for details. * Module syscalls is significantly expanded. See for details. * Module berkeley-db is vastly expanded. See for details. Added support for Berkeley DB 4.3. * Modules now have an exit function. See for details. Portability ----------- * Heaps and memory images larger than 4 GB are now supported on 64-bit platforms. * Support files larger than 2 GB or 4 GB also on Windows. * Weak pointers now also work on platforms without mmap(). * Weak hash tables now also work on platforms without mmap(). * Dynamic modules now work on woe32 too. * On most 64-bit platforms, fixnums are now 49 bits wide (including the sign bit), instead of 33 bits wide.