New release (was: Build fails on SuSE 8.1)

[Torbjörn Lager]

Kevin,

 > You will be pleased to know that, after a great deal of discussion,
 > the new syntax is completely backwards compatible with the current
 > syntax. In particular the currently available syntax for dictionary
 > update / access (D.k := E / D.k) will still work.

I'm pleased to hear that. Thanks for the info, and good luck with the 
parsing problem.

Cheers,
Torbjörn


Kevin Glynn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Torbjörn Lager writes:
>  > Hi All,
>  > 
>  > Will the "uniform state proposal" (where @ and := are used for getting 
>  > and setting values of cells and attributes, etc.) be implemented in the 
>  > planned new release?
>  > 
> 
> The "uniform state proposal" will be available in the next major
> release,  but there are no plans for it to appear in the 1.2 series of
> releases.
> 
> I have had the implementation knocking around for a few months and
> will shortly put it in the CVS repository.  The main stumbling block
> at the moment is that I cannot get bison to produce portable, working
> parsers.  I will investigate that when I have a bit of time. 
> 
>  > The reason I'm asking is that I'm planning a course using the van Roy % 
>  > Haridi book. The book is using the new syntax, so it would be nice if 
>  > the implementation also did. ON THE OTHER HAND, if the new syntax 
>  > introduces backward compatibility problems, e.g. by breaking code in the 
>  > Mogul or in other libraries, then I'm not so sure I would want the 
>  > change to take effect so soon... If necessary, I'm prepared to make the 
>  > necessary changes to the stuff that I myself have placed in the Mogul 
>  > right away, but I suspect that not everyone is...
>  > 
> 
> You will be pleased to know that, after a great deal of discussion,
> the new syntax is completely backwards compatible with the current
> syntax. In particular the currently available syntax for dictionary
> update / access (D.k := E / D.k) will still work.
> 
>  > And hey, what happened to the GTK stuff? Will that be part of the new 
>  > release? (Not important, I'm just curious...)
>  > 
> 
> Sorry,  can't help you there ...
> 
> regards
> 
> k
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