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Fix tricky case of functor signature subsumption
author Adam Chlipala <adam@chlipala.net>
date Fri, 27 Nov 2015 15:28:12 -0500
parents 1d6e7e3405f6
children a7cc6c29d836
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adam@2193 1 ========
adam@2193 2 20151122
adam@2193 3 ========
adam@2193 4
adam@2193 5 - Daemon mode now supports shared caching of libraries across projects.
adam@2193 6 - Change behavior of SQL equality to do the intuitive thing for nullable types.
adam@2193 7 - Basis.fromMilliseconds
adam@2193 8 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and error messages
adam@2193 9
adam@2179 10 ========
adam@2179 11 20151018
adam@2179 12 ========
adam@2179 13
adam@2179 14 - Applications now reconnect to database server automatically after losing connection.
adam@2179 15 - Bug fixes and improvements to compatibility, documentation, and error messages
adam@2179 16
adam@2170 17 ========
adam@2170 18 20150819
adam@2170 19 ========
adam@2170 20
adam@2170 21 - Allow mouse and key events for <body>
adam@2170 22 - Add HTML 'align' attribute
adam@2170 23 - Add onChange handler to radioOption
adam@2170 24 - New literal [_LOC_] that is replaced with textual information on location in source file
adam@2170 25 - Add a simple 'make test' target
adam@2170 26 - Bug fixes and documentation improvements
adam@2170 27
adam@2146 28 ========
adam@2146 29 20150520
adam@2146 30 ========
adam@2146 31
adam@2146 32 - Change default behavior of client-side GUI event handlers:
adam@2146 33 By default, events are now passed to handlers on parent DOM nodes as well,
adam@2146 34 just like in normal JavaScript.
adam@2146 35 Call [preventDefault] or [stopPropagation] to tweak that behavior.
adam@2146 36 WARNING: This change may break backward compatibility!
adam@2146 37 - URIs specified with 'file' .urp directive are implicitly allowed to be referenced.
adam@2146 38 - New HTML tags: <fieldset>, <legend>
adam@2146 39 - New urweb-mode Emacs command: 'urweb-close-matching-tag'
adam@2146 40 - Bug fixes
adam@2146 41
adam@2131 42 ========
adam@2131 43 20150412
adam@2131 44 ========
adam@2131 45
adam@2131 46 - Several new infix operators for function composition, etc.
adam@2131 47 - Hexadecimal integer literals
adam@2131 48 - New HTML events: 'oncontextmenu', 'onmouseenter', and 'onmouseleave'
adam@2131 49 - New HTML attributes: 'download'
adam@2131 50 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@2131 51
adam@2117 52 ========
adam@2117 53 20150214
adam@2117 54 ========
adam@2117 55
adam@2117 56 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and optimization
adam@2117 57
adam@2100 58 ========
adam@2100 59 20150103
adam@2100 60 ========
adam@2100 61
adam@2100 62 - New antiquote syntax for 'ORDER BY' clauses
adam@2100 63 - New standard library function: List.mem
adam@2100 64 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference
adam@2100 65
adam@2088 66 ========
adam@2088 67 20141206
adam@2088 68 ========
adam@2088 69
adam@2088 70 - New HTML5 form widget tags and attributes
adam@2088 71 - New command-line option for HTTP servers: '-T', to set recv() timeout
adam@2088 72 - New C function uw_remoteSock() for use in FFI code
adam@2088 73 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and optimization
adam@2088 74
adam@2065 75 ========
adam@2065 76 20140830
adam@2065 77 ========
adam@2065 78
adam@2065 79 - New HTML attribute: 'role'
adam@2065 80 - Bug fixes
adam@2065 81
adam@2059 82 ========
adam@2059 83 20140819
adam@2059 84 ========
adam@2059 85
adam@2059 86 - Improvements to HTML model
adam@2059 87 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@2059 88
adam@2051 89 ========
adam@2051 90 20140807
adam@2051 91 ========
adam@2051 92
adam@2051 93 - New .urp directive: 'file'
adam@2051 94 - Support for 'aria-*' attributes in HTML
adam@2051 95 - Default value of 'jsFunc' for less-safe FFI
adam@2051 96 - Client-side implementation of Basis function 'strsindex'
adam@2051 97 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and documentation
adam@2051 98
adam@2036 99 ========
adam@2036 100 20140704
adam@2036 101 ========
adam@2036 102
adam@2036 103 - New syntactic shorthand for antiquoting subqueries
adam@2036 104 - New Top members: max and min
adam@2036 105 - 'sql_injectable_prim' instance for 'url'
adam@2036 106 - Bug fixes
adam@2036 107
adam@2027 108 ========
adam@2027 109 20140615
adam@2027 110 ========
adam@2027 111
adam@2027 112 - New syntactic sugar: 'let E where DS end' for 'let DS in E end'
adam@2027 113 - Add 'onChange' attributes to more tags.
adam@2027 114 - New standard library function: String.trim
adam@2027 115 - Start treating Ur/Web tag <button> as real HTML tag <button>,
adam@2027 116 with special handling of 'value' attribute as tag content.
adam@2027 117 - Bug fixes
adam@2027 118
adam@2018 119 ========
adam@2018 120 20140531
adam@2018 121 ========
adam@2018 122
adam@2018 123 - Parsing extension: monadic bind supports patterns, like "(x, y) <- a; b"
adam@2018 124 - New, optional less safe FFI
adam@2018 125 - New HTML tags: <tbody>, <tfoot>, <thead>
adam@2018 126 - HTML5 data-* attributes
adam@2018 127 - HTML5 semantic tags
adam@2018 128 - Syntactic sugar extension: allow parens grouping joins in FROM clauses
adam@2018 129 - Bug fixes and documentation improvements
adam@2018 130
adam@2003 131 ========
adam@2003 132 20140426
adam@2003 133 ========
adam@2003 134
adam@2003 135 - New Basis functions having to do with dates and times, wrapped nicely in new
adam@2003 136 Datetime module of standard library
adam@2003 137 - New .urp directives: 'html5', 'neverInline', 'noMangleSql'
adam@2003 138 - New command-line arguments: '-explainEmbed', '-stop'
adam@2003 139 - Changes to C FFI interface, especially for uw_register_transactional()
adam@2003 140 - 'Basis.getEnv' now always calls UNIX getenv() outside a page handler.
adam@2003 141 - Changed <active> to avoid generating an empty <span> for empty content.
adam@2003 142 - New HTML tag: <pre>
adam@2003 143 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference, optimizations, and documentation
adam@2003 144
adam@1950 145 ========
adam@1950 146 20131231
adam@1950 147 ========
adam@1950 148
adam@1950 149 - Performance optimizations for Ur/Web's standalone HTTP servers
adam@1950 150 - New command-line options for those servers: '-k' and '-q'
adam@1950 151 - New HTML pseudo-tag: <script>
adam@1950 152 - Trying to recv() from a different client's channel now triggers a run-time
adam@1950 153 error.
adam@1950 154 - New compiler command-line argument: -print-cinclude
adam@1950 155 - Bug fixes and improvements to optimizations, error messages, and documentation
adam@1950 156
adam@1911 157 ========
adam@1911 158 20131124
adam@1911 159 ========
adam@1911 160
adam@1911 161 - Extend 'where con' to allow descending into submodule structure
adam@1911 162 - Type inference improvements
adam@1911 163 - Treat transactional FFI functions as effectful by default,
adam@1911 164 so that 'effectful'/'benignEffectful' .urp directives aren't necessary
adam@1911 165 - Interpret 'table' signature items more flexibly,
adam@1911 166 automatically adding (Ur) constraints to support
adam@1911 167 a kind of subtyping over (SQL) constraint sets
adam@1911 168 - New header file scheme to support FFI code in either of C or C++
adam@1911 169 - New command-line arguments: -ccompiler, -print-ccompiler
adam@1911 170 - More HTML tags: <dd>, <dl>, <dt>, <em>, and <strong>
adam@1911 171 - Add 'rel' attribute to <a>
adam@1911 172 - New type synonym 'xhead'
adam@1911 173 - Refactored the development Mercurial repository to remove autogenerated files
adam@1911 174 - More integration with Autotools distribution functionality
adam@1911 175 - Improvements to documentation and compiler error messages
adam@1911 176 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1911 177
adam@1851 178 ========
adam@1851 179 20130421
adam@1851 180 ========
adam@1851 181
adam@1851 182 - Allow any FFI module to declare new HTML tags
adam@1851 183 - Ignore polymorphism in JavaScript calls to custom FFI functions, allowing a
adam@1851 184 kind of simple dynamic typing (unsafe, of course)
adam@1851 185 - Add some name-mangling rules to allow XML attribute 'name' and attributes with
adam@1851 186 dashes
adam@1851 187 - New Basis members: pow and tryRpc
adam@1851 188 - Add 'placeholder' attribute for <password>
adam@1851 189 - New standard library functions: Option.unsafeGet
adam@1851 190 - Add ./configure MLTONARGS option for MLTON arguments
adam@1851 191 - Bug fixes and documentation improvements
adam@1851 192
adam@1826 193 ========
adam@1826 194 20120925
adam@1826 195 ========
adam@1826 196
adam@1826 197 - Changes to optimization/compilation strategy that can speed up compilation and
adam@1826 198 reduce code size dramatically
adam@1826 199 - New .urp directives: 'coreInline' and 'monoInline'
adam@1826 200 - 'show' instance for 'sql_query'
adam@1826 201 - Improvements to compiler error messages
adam@1826 202 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1826 203
adam@1806 204 ========
adam@1806 205 20120807
adam@1806 206 ========
adam@1806 207
adam@1806 208 - Client-side mouse and keyboard event handlers are now functions over records.
adam@1806 209 - More flexibility in local type class instances
adam@1806 210 - Remove 'class' declaration; use 'con' instead now.
adam@1806 211 - SQL window functions
adam@1806 212 - New HTML pseudo-tag: <active>
adam@1806 213 - New Basis members: getenv (and associated functions), giveFocus
adam@1806 214 - New Top member: postFields (to process POST form data when called by some external script)
adam@1806 215 - HTTP daemons take '-a' option to set IP address to listen on
adam@1806 216 - More global mouse event hooks
adam@1806 217 - Bug fixes and performance improvements
adam@1806 218
adam@1771 219 ========
adam@1771 220 20120519
adam@1771 221 ========
adam@1771 222
adam@1771 223 - Compatibility fixes for new Automake and GCC versions
adam@1771 224 - Allow synchronous RPC's in 'onunload' code
adam@1771 225 - Start of special cases for parsing CSS class names: interpret "table" as identifier 'tabl'
adam@1771 226 (since 'table' is an Ur/Web keyword)
adam@1771 227 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and optimization
adam@1771 228
adam@1758 229 ========
adam@1758 230 20120512
adam@1758 231 ========
adam@1758 232
adam@1758 233 - New support for CSS style code embedded in Ur/Web programs.
adam@1758 234 Two recommended usage methods:
adam@1758 235 1. Use 'style' attributes with normal CSS syntax inside string literals.
adam@1758 236 2. Generate styles programmatically with the Style module of the Gui library
adam@1758 237 (distributed separately).
adam@1758 238 - 'dynStyle' attribute, which is to 'style' as 'dynClass' is to 'class'
adam@1758 239 - Parsing of standard syntax for 'class' attributes, via specially interpreted
adam@1758 240 string literals
adam@1758 241 - New optional suffix for 'rewrite' in .urp files: [-]
adam@1758 242 - Compiler error message improvements, including simplification of types
adam@1758 243 - New command line parameters: '-boot', '-dumpTypesOnError', '-unifyMore'
adam@1758 244 - New .urp directives: 'linker'
adam@1758 245 - Support for speeding up compilation by caching type inference results:
adam@1758 246 Run 'urweb daemon start' to spawn a background process,
adam@1758 247 'urweb daemon stop' to kill it.
adam@1758 248 - Enforcement of uniqueness of top-level module names across a project
adam@1758 249 - Adjust error message format to match Emacs compilation mode defaults
adam@1758 250 - More HTML attributes added
adam@1758 251 - New antiquote syntax for 'PRIMARY KEY'
adam@1758 252 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and platform compatibility
adam@1758 253
adam@1705 254 ========
adam@1705 255 20120329
adam@1705 256 ========
adam@1705 257
adam@1705 258 - New JavaScript FFI function: setInnerHTML
adam@1705 259 - Bug fixes
adam@1705 260 - Documentation improvements
adam@1705 261
adam@1693 262 ========
adam@1693 263 20120310
adam@1693 264 ========
adam@1693 265
adam@1693 266 - 'ORDER BY RANDOM'
adam@1693 267 - New Basis members: diffInMilliseconds, toMilliseconds
adam@1693 268 - <radio> widget now returns 'option string' instead of 'string'
adam@1693 269 - '-dumpSource' command-line flag
adam@1693 270 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1693 271
adam@1669 272 ========
adam@1669 273 20120110
adam@1669 274 ========
adam@1669 275
adam@1669 276 - Improvements to type inference and error messages
adam@1669 277 - New 'dynClass' pseudo-attribute for most HTML tags
adam@1669 278 - New 't.*' notation for selecting all columns of a table
adam@1669 279 - New SQL functions: 'lower' and 'upper'
adam@1669 280 - 'timeFormat' .urp directive
adam@1669 281 - Client-side 'debug' and 'naughtyDebug' calls use a browser debug console, if available
adam@1669 282 - Allow 'source' values to be returned by RPCs
adam@1669 283 - Change the HTML context classification scheme in 'Basis'
adam@1669 284 - Rename 'Top.id' to 'ident' to avoid clash with 'Basis.id'
adam@1669 285 - More client-side function implementations
adam@1669 286 - Some expanded reference manual sections
adam@1669 287 - Tweak to linker command line argument order (to prevent issues with new Ubuntu versions)
adam@1669 288 - Bug fixes
adam@1669 289
adam@1616 290 ========
adam@1616 291 20111127
adam@1616 292 ========
adam@1616 293
adam@1616 294 - Improvements to type inference and error messages
adam@1616 295 - New Basis members: ceil, float, null, round, trunc
adam@1616 296 - New SQL expression forms: 'IF..THEN..ELSE', 'COALESCE', and 'LIKE'
adam@1616 297 - Support for the full set of HTML character entities
adam@1616 298 - Client-side versions of some time-related functions
adam@1616 299 - New URWEB_PG_CON environment variable
adam@1616 300 - Allow arguments for 'con' signature items, not just declarations
adam@1616 301 - Bug fixes and performance improvements
adam@1616 302 - Tweaks for idiosyncrasies of OS X (like deprecated OpenSSL)
adam@1616 303
adam@1509 304 ========
adam@1561 305 20110917
adam@1509 306 ========
adam@1509 307
adam@1509 308 - Start of official tutorial
adam@1509 309 - Compiler support for generating nice tutorial HTML from literate source files
adam@1509 310 - New protocol 'static' for generating static pages
adam@1561 311 - Replace GCCARGS 'configure' variable with CCARGS
adam@1561 312 - Better support for compilation with Clang (including on OS X)
adam@1561 313 - Fancier 'configure' script with versioning
adam@1523 314 - Applications consult URWEB_STACK_SIZE environment variable to determine thread
adam@1523 315 stack size
adam@1561 316 - HTML tag IDs now drawn from an abstract type
adam@1561 317 - New Basis functions: diffInSeconds, mkMonad, onClick, onDblclick, onKeydown,
adam@1561 318 onKeypress, onKeyup, onMousedown, onMouseup, preventDefault, stopPropagation,
adam@1561 319 toSeconds
adam@1561 320 - Add <image> tag
adam@1561 321 - Add 'target' attribute for <a>
adam@1561 322 - New compiler command-line option: -dumpTypes
adam@1561 323 - New syntactic sugar for computed ORDER BY clauses
adam@1561 324 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1509 325
adam@1492 326 ========
adam@1492 327 20110715
adam@1492 328 ========
adam@1492 329
adam@1492 330 - Treat local variables the same as module-level variables, for the purpose of
adam@1492 331 implicit argument insertion
adam@1492 332 - New 'noXsrfProtection' directive for .urp files
adam@1492 333 - Non-debug builds omit source location information in error messages shown to
adam@1492 334 the user (but keep that information in log entries)
adam@1492 335 - Basis.getHeader and Basis.setHeader
adam@1492 336 - Basis.show_css_class
adam@1492 337 - Basis.currentUrlHasQueryString
adam@1492 338 - Make Basis.rand cryptographically secure
adam@1492 339 - Client-side versions of Basis.now and Basis.show_time
adam@1492 340 - Bug fixes
adam@1492 341 - Improvements to auto-configuration and build process (now builds with LLVM's
adam@1492 342 Clang!)
adam@1492 343 - Clarifications in the manual
adam@1492 344
adam@1458 345 ========
adam@1460 346 20110517
adam@1458 347 ========
adam@1458 348
adam@1458 349 - Cygwin compatibility
adam@1458 350 - Compatibility with Gentoo packaging process, including a .ebuild file
adam@1458 351 - Change typing of SQL subqueries, to indicate that they may always return NULL
adam@1458 352 (for no rows)
adam@1458 353 - Syntactic sugar for GROUP BY with variable numbers of columns
adam@1458 354 (using 'tab.{{c}}', where 'c :: {Type}')
adam@1458 355 - 'ALL' for SQL relational operators
adam@1458 356 - Add nullable types to the class for valid operands for SQL arithmetic
adam@1458 357 - 'alt' attribute for <img>
adam@1458 358 - <sup> and <sub> HTML tags
adam@1458 359 - Allow 'debug' and 'naughtyDebug' in client-side code, implemented with 'alert'
adam@1458 360 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1458 361
adam@1400 362 ========
adam@1414 363 20110123
adam@1400 364 ========
adam@1400 365
adam@1400 366 - Changes to encoding of SQL aggregate functions: nullable types may be
adam@1400 367 aggregated, and non-COUNT aggregates return nullable results.
adam@1400 368 - SQL subqueries may apply aggregate functions to columns bound in enclosing
adam@1400 369 queries.
adam@1400 370 - Switch from libmhash to OpenSSL.
adam@1400 371 - 'cdataChar', for injecting arbitrary character codes into XML
adam@1400 372 - 'crypt', for access to the standard UNIX password encryption routine
adam@1400 373 - 'readUtc', for parsing time strings in the UTC time zone
adam@1400 374 - Built-in 'time' type now stores microseconds (which for now are only used in
adam@1400 375 connection with Postgres timestamps).
adam@1400 376 - Client-side URL blessing and redirection
adam@1400 377 - 'currentUrlHasPost' function
adam@1400 378 - Transactional 'free' functions now passed an argument indicating whether the
adam@1400 379 runtime system expects to retry the transaction.
adam@1400 380 - Change tasks to allow task kind-specific inputs
adam@1400 381 - Add 'clientLeaves' and 'periodic' task kinds
adam@1400 382 - Support for externally-callable pages, via the 'postBody' and 'queryString'
adam@1400 383 types and the 'effectfulUrl' function
adam@1400 384 - 'minHeap' and 'alwaysInline' .urp options
adam@1400 385 - '-prefix' command-line option
adam@1400 386 - Comments in .urp files (lines starting with '#')
adam@1400 387 - Miscellaneous additions to the standard library
adam@1400 388 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and optimization
adam@1400 389
adam@1287 390 ========
adam@1315 391 20101102
adam@1287 392 ========
adam@1287 393
adam@1287 394 - Polymorphic variants (see Basis.variant)
adam@1297 395 - New 'onError' directive for .urp files
adam@1287 396 - (* *) and <!-- --> comments in XML
adam@1297 397 - Basis.classes, Basis.confirm, and Basis.tryDml
adam@1309 398 - New notations ::_ and :::_, for constructor parameters of unknown kind
adam@1297 399 - Invocations like 'urweb foo' will compile foo.ur as a single-file project,
adam@1297 400 even if no foo.urp exists
adam@1309 401 - '-limit' command-line flag and 'limit' .urp directive
adam@1297 402 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1287 403
adamc@1259 404 ========
adamc@1273 405 20100603
adamc@1259 406 ========
adamc@1259 407
adamc@1259 408 - Changed URL escaping convention, to avoid confusing proxies.
adamc@1259 409 The new convention is like the normal one, but with '.' instead of '%'.
adamc@1261 410 - Changed JavaScript compilation of recursive functions to use thunks.
adamc@1261 411 This change avoids most costs of functions not referenced on particular
adamc@1261 412 pages, reducing loading time dramatically.
adamc@1273 413 - Support HTTP caching of application-specific JavaScript code
adamc@1273 414 - Bug fixes
adamc@1259 415
adamc@1255 416 ========
adamc@1255 417 20100506
adamc@1255 418 ========
adamc@1255 419
adamc@1255 420 - New experimental checker for information flow and access control policies
adamc@1255 421 (See demo at http://www.impredicative.com/ur/scdv/)
adamc@1255 422
adamc@1197 423 ========
adamc@1197 424 20100401
adamc@1197 425 ========
adamc@1197 426
adamc@1197 427 - Subquery expressions and FROM items
adamc@1197 428 - Low-level support for SELECT with no FROM clause
adamc@1197 429 - Fixes for DBMS-portability of relational operators
adamc@1197 430
adamc@1183 431 ========
adamc@1190 432 20100325
adamc@1183 433 ========
adamc@1183 434
adamc@1188 435 - -verbose flag
adamc@1188 436 - COUNT(col) SQL aggregate function
adamc@1188 437 - 'benignEffectful' and 'safeGet' .urp commands
adamc@1188 438 - Remove Basis.getRequestHeader, since it can be used to circumvent cookie
adamc@1188 439 security
adamc@1190 440 - Rename Top.foldR*X to map*X
adamc@1188 441 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adamc@1183 442
adamc@1166 443 ========
adamc@1166 444 20100213
adamc@1166 445 ========
adamc@1166 446
adamc@1166 447 - Improvements to 'configure'; should now fail if any uncommon but required
adamc@1166 448 package is missing
adamc@1166 449 - Other fixes to configuration, build system, and C code portability
adamc@1166 450 - sigfile .urp directive & -sigfile command-line option
adamc@1166 451 - .urp files with no directives no longer need to begin with blank lines.
adamc@1166 452 - Other bug fixes
adamc@1166 453
adamc@1137 454 ========
adamc@1137 455 20100130
adamc@1137 456 ========
adamc@1137 457
adamc@1137 458 - Conversion to an Automake-based build system, for greater portability in
adamc@1137 459 building shared libraries
adamc@1137 460 - -path and -root command-line flags
adamc@1137 461 - Exported page handling functions (i.e., those page-generating functions
adamc@1137 462 appearing in the main module's signature) may now take any number of
adamc@1137 463 arguments, including 0.
adamc@1137 464
adamc@1123 465 ========
adamc@1123 466 20100112
adamc@1123 467 ========
adamc@1123 468
adamc@1123 469 - Basis.serialized type family, for storing more types in the database
adamc@1123 470 - Basis.textBlob, for building blobs from strings
adamc@1123 471 - Basis.debug function, for server-side debug printing
adamc@1123 472 - Bug fixes & optimization improvements
adamc@1123 473
adamc@1065 474 ========
adamc@1103 475 20091230
adamc@1065 476 ========
adamc@1065 477
adamc@1093 478 - Automatic insertion of implicit arguments in more positions
adamc@1065 479 - Reifying expressions as URLs and redirecting to them explicitly
adamc@1070 480 - More syntactic sugar for SQL
adamc@1070 481 - Typing of SQL queries no longer exposes which tables were used in joins but
adamc@1070 482 had none of their fields projected
adamc@1075 483 - Tasks
adamc@1095 484 - Dynamic linking of the runtime system
adamc@1077 485 - Optimization improvements
adamc@1103 486 - Bug fixes
adamc@1065 487
adamc@1050 488 ========
adamc@1056 489 20091203
adamc@1050 490 ========
adamc@1050 491
adamc@1050 492 - Extended cookie interface (breaks backward compatibility for 'setCookie')
adamc@1050 493 - Bug fixes
adamc@1056 494 - Extended UTF-8 characters in HTML
adamc@1050 495
adamc@1043 496 ========
adamc@1043 497 20091124
adamc@1043 498 ========
adamc@1043 499
adamc@1043 500 - Improved Internet Explorer compatibility
adamc@1043 501
adamc@1020 502 ========
adamc@1033 503 20091108
adamc@1020 504 ========
adamc@1020 505
adamc@1020 506 - Bug fixes
adamc@1020 507 - Optimization improvements
adamc@1021 508 - Removed a restriction that prevented some RPCs and calls to sleep or recv
adamc@1021 509 from compiling
adamc@1020 510
adamc@999 511 ========
adamc@999 512 20091012
adamc@999 513 ========
adamc@999 514
adamc@999 515 - Small bug fixes affecting MySQL and SQLite
adamc@999 516
adamc@988 517 ========
adamc@997 518 20091009
adamc@988 519 ========
adamc@988 520
adamc@988 521 - Bug fixes
adamc@988 522 - Improvement to choice of line number to cite in record unification error
adamc@988 523 messages
adamc@994 524 - SELECT DISTINCT
adamc@996 525 - New extra demos: orm1 and versioned1
adamc@988 526
adamc@985 527 ========
adamc@985 528 20090926
adamc@985 529 ========
adamc@985 530
adamc@985 531 - Reimplemented client-side code generation to use an interpreter, rather than
adamc@985 532 compilation to JavaScript; this avoids common browser flaws: lack of
adamc@985 533 optimization of tail calls and occasional bugs in closure handling.
adamc@985 534 - Bug fixes
adamc@985 535
adamc@968 536 ========
adamc@968 537 20090919
adamc@968 538 ========
adamc@968 539
adamc@968 540 - Bug fixes
adamc@968 541 - Optimization improvements
adamc@968 542 - Expanded grid demo in demo/more: optional columns, sorting, filtering,
adamc@968 543 paging, selecting rows, aggregate row
adamc@968 544
adamc@929 545 ========
adamc@929 546 20090912
adamc@929 547 ========
adamc@929 548
adamc@929 549 - Bug fixes
adamc@929 550 - Optimization improvements
adamc@929 551 - New set of extra demos in demo/more
adamc@929 552
adamc@914 553 ========
adamc@914 554 20090825
adamc@914 555 ========
adamc@914 556
adamc@914 557 - Many bug fixes
adamc@914 558 - Remote procedure calls must be marked with the new 'rpc' function.
adamc@914 559 - Some tweaks to enable usage on OSX (suggested by Paul Snively)
adamc@914 560
adamc@897 561 ========
adamc@897 562 20090718
adamc@897 563 ========
adamc@897 564
adamc@897 565 - New application protocols: CGI and FastCGI
adamc@897 566 - New database backends: MySQL and SQLite
adamc@897 567 - More JavaScript events added to tags in standard library
adamc@897 568 - New manual section on using the foreign function interface (FFI)
adamc@897 569
adamc@852 570 ========
adamc@852 571 20090623
adamc@852 572 ========
adamc@852 573
adamc@852 574 - Many bug fixes
adamc@852 575 - Mutually-recursive datatypes
adamc@852 576 - SML-style pattern-matching syntax for "fun", "fn", and local "val"
adamc@852 577 - Backwards-incompatible change to syntax of formal constructor parameters to
adamc@852 578 value-level functions, to support the previous change
adamc@852 579 - Path map support inspired by SML/NJ CM and MLton ML Basis
adamc@852 580 - Start of some new standard library modules
adamc@852 581 - Some improvements to JavaScript runtime, including better error handling
adamc@852 582
adamc@716 583 ========
adamc@790 584 20090505
adamc@716 585 ========
adamc@716 586
adamc@716 587 - Reimplement constructor class resolution to be more general and Prolog-like
adamc@716 588 - SQL table constraints
adamc@770 589 - URLs
adamc@736 590 - Client-side error handling callbacks
adamc@736 591 - CSS
adamc@736 592 - Signing cookie values cryptographically to thwart cross site request forgery
adamc@744 593 - Blobs and HTTP file upload
adamc@752 594 - SQL outer joins
adamc@755 595 - SQL views
adamc@756 596 - Subforms
adamc@768 597 - C and JavaScript FFI
adamc@768 598 - Path rewriting
adamc@716 599
adamc@702 600 ========
adamc@702 601 20090405
adamc@702 602 ========
adamc@702 603
adamc@702 604 - Asynchronous message-passing and the associated server-side client
adamc@702 605 bookkeeping
adamc@702 606 - Reimplement parts of the client-side runtime system to avoid space leaks
adamc@702 607 - spawn and sleep
adamc@702 608 - Expand the constructor class instance rule format
adamc@702 609
adamc@663 610 ========
adamc@663 611 20090312
adamc@663 612 ========
adamc@663 613
adamc@663 614 - Replace type-level "fold" with "map"
adamc@663 615 - Replace expression-level "fold" with folders, defined in Top and
adamc@663 616 supported by some special compiler inference
adamc@663 617 - Replace guarded constructors with guarded types, introduced only by
adamc@663 618 guarded expression abstraction, and with a new explicit application form
adamc@663 619 - Kind polymorphism
adamc@663 620 - Generalize type classes to constructor classes
adamc@663 621 - Initial compilation of client-side code to JavaScript
adamc@663 622 - Initial support for mixed client- and server-side programming (i.e., "AJAX")
adamc@665 623 - src/coq: Coq formalization of a core Ur-like calculus
adamc@663 624
adamc@506 625 ========
adamc@561 626 20081209
adamc@506 627 ========
adamc@506 628
adamc@506 629 - Optimization: Fusing page writes with calls to recursive functions
adamc@523 630 - Optimization of bottleneck compiler phases
adamc@561 631 - Reference manual
adamc@561 632 - SQL arithmetic operators
adamc@506 633
adamc@504 634 ========
adamc@504 635 20081120
adamc@504 636 ========
adamc@504 637
adamc@504 638 - Fix bug that sometimes led to omission of initial "<html>" in pages
adamc@504 639 - Take advantage of nested functions in some demos
adamc@504 640 - "profile" option that may appear in .urp files, to enable gprof profiling
adamc@663 641 - "-guided-demo" option that works like "-demo" but uses less screen space for
adamc@663 642 prose
adamc@504 643
adamc@467 644 ========
adamc@497 645 20081118
adamc@467 646 ========
adamc@467 647
adamc@467 648 - Nested function definitions
adamc@467 649 - Primitive "time" type
adamc@467 650 - Nullable SQL columns (via "option")
adamc@467 651 - Cookies
adamc@663 652 - Compiler: Specialization of functions to known arguments (especially of
adamc@663 653 function type)
adamc@467 654
adamc@435 655 ========
adamc@435 656 20081028
adamc@435 657 ========
adamc@435 658
adamc@435 659 - Add GCCARGS configure option
adamc@435 660
adamc@433 661 ========
adamc@433 662 20081027
adamc@433 663 ========
adamc@433 664
adamc@433 665 - On missing inputs, print an error message, but don't exit the web server.
adamc@434 666 - Remove need for "() <-" notation.
adamc@433 667
adamc@433 668 ========
adamc@433 669 20081026
adamc@433 670 ========
adamc@433 671
adamc@433 672 - Change 'sed' call to work on OSX.
adamc@433 673 - Avoid including or linking libpq files on apps that don't use SQL.