e99678 | 2004-05-02 | Martin Nilsson | | Changes since Pike 7.6:
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6bf19a | 2002-09-15 | Peter Bortas | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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cd683a | 2001-07-27 | Johan Sundström | |
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4d48e4 | 2004-10-30 | Martin Stjernholm | | o New syntax to index from the end in range operations.
A "<" can be added before an index in the [..] operator to count
from the end instead. This is convenient to e.g. chop off the last
element in an array: a[..<1].
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0c37ae | 2004-12-30 | Henrik Grubbström (Grubba) | | o Several declarations and definitions (most notably the debug and
runtime flags) have moved from main.h to pike_embed.h, in an attempt
to add support for embedding.
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4d48e4 | 2004-10-30 | Martin Stjernholm | | o New `[..] operator function.
Range operations have been separated from the `[] operator function
and is handled by a new `[..] which provides greater control in how
the range bounds are specified. For compatibility, if there is no
`[..] then `[] is still called for range operations.
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85b3d3 | 2004-12-19 | Henrik Grubbström (Grubba) | | o Generalized this and this_program.
It is now possible to refer to inherits in objects. Example:
class A {
int a;
void foo() { werror("A\n"); }
}
class B {
inherit A;
int b;
void foo() { werror("B\n"); }
A::this_program get_a() { return A::this; }
}
In the above B()->get_a() will return an object with two symbols,
'a' and 'foo', but B()->get_a()->foo() will still write "B\n".
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73fe40 | 2004-11-14 | Martin Stjernholm | | o Unicode escapes.
Pike now understands the common way to escape unicode chars, using
\uxxxx and \Uxxxxxxxx escapes. These escapes works both in string
and character literals and in the preprocessor. The latter means
that unicode escapes can be used in identifiers, which is useful if
they contain characters that can't be represented raw in the source
code charset.
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d863e6 | 2004-09-03 | David Gourdelier | | o Stdio.*
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5e18f7 | 2004-09-03 | Henrik Grubbström (Grubba) | | Stdio.cp can now work recursively in a directory tree.
Stdio.cp now keeps permissions when copying.
Added Stdio.recursive_mv which works on every OS and also when the
destination isn't on the same filesystem as the source.
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d863e6 | 2004-09-03 | David Gourdelier | |
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7b31f7 | 2004-05-10 | Martin Nilsson | | o Process.popen
Process.popen is now able to run in nonblocking mode. If a second
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5e18f7 | 2004-09-03 | Henrik Grubbström (Grubba) | | argument is provided a file object will be opened with that mode
and return, enabling two way communication with the new process.
o bin/precompile.pike
Voidable pointer types are no longer promoted to mixed.
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6de0ec | 2004-05-11 | Henrik Grubbström (Grubba) | |
o PIKE_PORTABLE_BYTECODE
--with-portable-bytecode is now the default. Pike programs that have
been dumped on one architecture now can be decoded on another.
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95d087 | 2004-11-09 | Mirar (Pontus Hagland) | |
o Math.Matrix
Multiplication were bugged and gave B*A instead of A*B. Now fixed.
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9e891d | 2005-02-09 | Martin Stjernholm | | o Destruct reason passed to lfun::destroy.
lfun::destroy now receives an integer flag that tells why the object
is being destructed, e.g. if it was an explicit call to destroy(),
running out of references, or reaped by the garbage collector.
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afa482 | 2006-12-29 | Martin Nilsson | |
These integers are defined in the new Object module as
DESCTRUCT_EXPLICIT, DESTRUCT_NO_REFS, DESTRUCT_GC and
DESTRUCT_CLEANUP.
o Unicode
Case information and the Unicode module are updated to Unicode
5.0.0.
Extensions and New Functions
o Calendar.Badi
Support for the Badi calendar used in the Baha'i religion.
New Modules
o ADT.Set
ADT.Set implements a datatype for sets. These sets behave much
like multisets, except that they are restricted to containing only
one instance of each member value.
From a performance viewpoint, it is probably more efficient for a
Pike program to use mappings to serve as sets, rather than using an
ADT.Set,so ADT.Set is mainly provided for the sake of completeness
and code readability.
o Protocols.DNS_SD
This module provides an interface to DNS Service Discovery. The
functionality of DNS-SD is described at <http://www.dns-sd.org/>.
Using the Proctocols.DNS_SD.Service class a Pike program can
announce services, for example a web site or a database server, to
computers on the local network.
When registering a service you need to provide the service name.
service type, domain and port number. You can also optionally
specify a TXT record. The contents of the TXT record varies between
different services; for example, a web server can announce a path
to a web page, and a printer spooler is able to list printer
features such as color support or two-sided printing.
The service is registered on the network for as long as the instance
of the Service class is valid.
o Bittorrent.Tracker
Bittorrent tracker with support for scraping and UDP extension.
o Protocols.HTTP.Server.Proxy
A simple HTTP proxy.
o Standards.TLD
Country domains and other TLDs according to IANA. Useful when
parsing log information or providing live information about clients
connecting to your server.
o Tools.Shoot
Several new tests have been added to benchmark and improve on
various aspects of Pike. ReplaceParallel and ReplaceSerial compares
the time it takes to replace multiple substrings of a string in a
single call to replace and with subsequent calls.
TagRemoveArraySscanf, TagRemoveDivide, TagRemoveLoop,
TagRemoveParserHTML, TagRemovePCRE, TagRemoveSearch and
TagRemoveSscanf compares different methods of completing the same
task, to remove XML tags from a string.
o Web.CGI
Provides a CGI interface on the callee side. Retrieves information
from environment variables and populates the variables in the
Request object.
New lib:
Protocols.LDAP module.pmod
Sql.Sql dsn
sqlite
sql_array_result
sql_object_result
tds
-x test_pike
New src:
embed/libpike
tmodule
code/amd64
Fuse
Protocols.DNS_SD
Charset gb18030
gbk
Parser c.c / pike.c
GTK2
SQLite
Incompatible changes
These incompatible changes can be solved by adding #pike 7.6 to your
source file or starting Pike with -V7.6.
o Array.transpose_old
This function is removed.
o _Charset
This internal module has had most of its content removed.
o Debug.describe_program
The API for this debug function has changed.
o Image.Image
The functions select_colors(), map_closest(), map_fast() and
map_fs() has been removed. Use Image.Colortable operations instead.
o Parser.XML
The XML parsers are now stricter in verifying the correctness
of the XML. The function compat_allow_errors can be called in the
create method of the Parser.XML.Simple and Parser.XML.Validating
(with "7.6" as argument for 7.6 compatibility). Parser.XML.Tree can
be created with PARSE_COMPAT_ALLOW_ERRORS_7_6 as flag.
o Protocols.LDAP.client
The "dn" field wasn't properly utf-8 decoded in 7.6 and earlier. If
your application does it yourself, you need to use the compatibility
version of this class.
o spider.XML
The spider module no longer contains the XML parser. The functions
isbasechar(), iscombiningchar(), isdigit(), isextender(),
isfirstnamechar(), ishexchar(), isidiographic(), isletter(),
isnamechar() and isspace() has also been moved to the Parser module.
o Sql.Sql
Pike will no longer create a .column entry in SQL query responses if
there is no table name.
o Standards.UUID
Functions new() and new_string() has been removed. Use
make_version1(-1)->encode() and make_version1(-1)->str() instead.
o Stdio
The functions read_file(), read_bytes(), write_file() and
append_file() now always throw errors upon errors, to allow easier
use as errno doesn't have to be checked. read_file() and
read_bytes() still returns 0 if the file does not exists.
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