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@ -7,18 +7,15 @@ Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.
Changes in 2.0.8 (since 2.0.7):
* TODO
** Reorder points in order of importance and make comprehensible
** Assemble thanks
* Notable changes
** New keyword arguments for procedures that open files
Several procedures that open files now support keyword arguments to
request binary I/O or to specify the character encoding for text files.
The following procedures that open files now support keyword arguments
to request binary I/O or to specify the character encoding for text
files: `open-input-file', `open-output-file', `call-with-input-file',
`call-with-output-file', `with-input-from-file', `with-output-to-file',
and `with-error-to-file'.
It is also now possible to specify whether Guile should scan files for
Emacs-style coding declarations. This scan was done by default in
@ -26,7 +23,7 @@ versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.7, but now must be explicitly requested.
See "File Ports" in the manual for details.
** New guile.m4
** Rewritten guile.m4
The `guile.m4' autoconf macros have been rewritten to use `guild' and
`pkg-config' instead of the deprecated `guile-config' (which itself
@ -40,7 +37,7 @@ Macros" in the manual, for more information.
Guile now correctly identifies absolute paths on Windows (MinGW), and
creates files on that platform according to its path conventions. See
XXX in the manual, for all details.
"File System" in the manual, for all details.
In addition, the new Gnulib imports provide `select' and `poll' on
Windows builds.
@ -48,7 +45,7 @@ Windows builds.
As an incompatible change, systems that are missing <sys/select.h> were
previously provided a public `scm_std_select' C function that defined a
version of `select', but unhappily it also provided its own incompatible
definitions for FD_SET, FD_ZERO, and other system interface. Guile
definitions for FD_SET, FD_ZERO, and other system interfaces. Guile
should not be setting these macros in public API, so this interface was
removed on those plaforms (basically only MinGW).
@ -84,7 +81,7 @@ complete reduction of forms such as:
`string-join' now handles huge lists efficiently.
`get-bytevector-some' is much faster.
`get-bytevector-some' now uses buffered input, which is much faster.
Finally, `array-ref', `array-set!' on arrays of rank 1 or 2 is now
faster, because it avoids building a rest list. Similarly, the
@ -128,16 +125,6 @@ more information.
Docstrings can now be placed immediately after the `case-lambda' or
`case-lambda*' keyword. See "Case-lambda" in the manual.
** `get-bytevector-some' much faster; may read less than possible
`get-bytevector-some' has been made much faster, but may now read less
than possible, in accordance with the R6RS definition.
** SRFI-45 exports `promise?'; promises print more nicely
SRFI-45 now exports a `promise?' procedure that works with its promises,
and its promises print more nicely.
** Improved handling of Unicode byte order marks
See "BOM Handling" in the manual for details.
@ -223,6 +210,11 @@ These are `scm_array_fill_int', `scm_ra_eqp', `scm_ra_lessp',
See "SRFI-41" in the manual.
** SRFI-45 exports `promise?'
SRFI-45 now exports a `promise?' procedure that works with its promises.
Also, its promises now print more nicely.
** New HTTP client procedures
See "Web Client" for documentation on the new `http-head', `http-post',