ats2-postiats-0.0.6:


Date: February 16, 2014

This is the sixth 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. Symbol for overloading no longer require to be declared first.
2. Adding libats-hwxi/cstream for supporting a simple style of lexing
3. Adding a direct API for Simple DirectMedia Layer 2.0 (SDL2).
4. Both static/extern function names are now stamped at the end.
5. Fixing a bug in pattern matching: left-values should be dereferenced!
6. Polymorphic data constructors no longer require explicit type arguments
   (for compilation purpose).
7. Handling of template parameters is greatly improved.