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diff --git a/miralib/manual/32 b/miralib/manual/32 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a54d084 --- /dev/null +++ b/miralib/manual/32 @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +_R_E_C_E_N_T_ _C_H_A_N_G_E_S + +January 2020 (version 2.066) + +The Miranda source code has been revised to conform to the C11 standard +and to run on both 64 and 32 bit platforms. Earlier releases were 32 +bit only. + +December 2019 (version 2.057) + +Miranda type `char' now includes all Unicode characters, which can be +specified by hexadecimal escape codes in char and string constants. For +example '\x5d2' is the Hebrew letter Gimel. + +The lexical syntax of Miranda has been extended to include octal and +hexadecimal numerals - e.g. 0o777 is 511 and 0xffffffff is 4294967295. + +See man section 11 (literals) for details of both the above. + +Functions showoct, showhex :: num->[char] have been added to the +standard environment. + +Data types with "laws", declared obsolete at release two, have finally +gone. Strictness annotations: `!' on fields of an algebraic data type +remain part of the language, see man section 20 (algebraic data types). + +The flag -exp, for executable scripts, has gone and is replaced by +-exec, see man section 31/4 (Using Miranda to build UNIX commands). +This is not backwards compatible (sorry) but the change needed is +trivial. If you have a magic script + #!/usr/bin/mira -exp + expression + definitions... +change it to + #!/usr/bin/mira -exec + main = expression + definitions... +The new mechanism executes `main' wherever it is in the script (whereas +-exp required an expression on the second line). + +_O_l_d_e_r_ _C_h_a_n_g_e_s (in reverse date order) + +September 2009 (version 2.044) + +The environment variable MIRAPROMPT may be set to a string to be used as +the Miranda session prompt instead of the default "Miranda ". + +For reading/writing binary files in UTF-8 locale, stdenv is extended by + readb, Stdoutb, Tofileb, Appendfileb +these behave similarly to + read, Stdout, Tofile, Appendfile +but transfer data as bytes with no conversions from/to UTF-8. See new +manual section 31/9. + +August 2008 (version 2.041, 2.042) + +Miranda now detects if it is in UTF-8 locale and converts from/to UTF-8 +on reading/writing string and char values. + +May 2006 (version 2.032) + +The commands /nostrictif, /strictif to control enforcement of `if' in +guard syntax have gone. The `if' has been part of Miranda's syntax +since 1988. In case there are surviving if-less scripts, you can use + mira -nostrictif +or set the environment variable NOSTRICTIF to any non-empty string. + +New command /recheck makes mira check if any loaded script has been +updated before every evaluation, instead of only after /edit (/norecheck +to disable). Appropriate if an editor window is running concurrently +with the Miranda session window. The setting is remembered for +subsequent sessions. Formerly enabled by setting environment variable +RECHECKMIRA to a non-empty string - that method still works also. + +mira now checks that it has miralib of same version number - exits with +error message otherwise. An explicit mira -lib <path> overrides this +but it is in general inadvisable to run mira with wrong miralib. + +_H_i_s_t_o_r_y_ _o_f_ _M_i_r_a_n_d_a_ _r_e_l_e_a_s_e_s + +1 May 1985 - alpha test, released to University of Kent only. + +October 1985 - beta test (version 0.292 for VAX, 0.293 for SUN) +Distributed to 88 sites. + +April 1987 - release one (version 1.009 or 1.016 or 1.019) +Added literate scripts, library mechanism: %export, %include, (n+k) patterns. +Around 250 sites. + +October 1989 - release two (versions 2.0xx for various machines) +Added unbounded size integers, %free, faster SK reduction m/c +Around 550 sites by mid-90's. + +May 2006 - revised and released as free software (but not open source). + +Nov 2019 - revised and made open source. + +Jan 2020 - revised to C11 standard and made 64 bit compatible. |