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_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.
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