ats2-postiats-0.3.8:
This is the 45th release of ATS2, the successor of the
ATS programming language. The compiler for ATS2 is given
the name ATS/Positats, ATS2/Postiats or simply Postiats.
The official website for ATS is:
http://www.ats-lang.org
ATS-Postiats is hosted at github:
https://github.com/githwxi/ATS-Postiats
Major releases of ATS2 are available at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ats2-lang/
Major releases of external packages for ATS2 are available at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ats2-lang-contrib/
Here is a list of major additions and changes since the last release:
1. Adding libatscc/ML/option0
2. Adding libatscc/ML/matrix0
3. Minorly improving libatscc/ML/list0 and libatscc/ML/array0
4. Fixing missing cases in eval1_p2at (pats_dmacro2_eval1.dats)
5. Fixing and improving libats/funarray
6. Adding calls to the_dynconlst_add to ensure that every exception
constructor is declared in the generated C code.
7. Initiating building the "compiled" library libats/ML/COMPILE
8. Fixing a glitch in compiling polymorphic functions that call
function templates (auxmat_env in [pats_ccomp_template.dats])
A simple use case is found in doc/EXAMPLE/TESTATS/tempboxed.dats
9. Adding support for calling variadic functions in a type-safe way.
There is no attempt to add support for type-safe implementation of
variadic functions yet.
10. Supporting the user of the flag --gc for myatscc.