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Document new infix operators
author Adam Chlipala <adam@chlipala.net>
date Thu, 05 Mar 2015 14:58:34 -0500
parents f1c4edf0a655
children 88a8a656003f
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adam@2117 1 ========
adam@2117 2 20150214
adam@2117 3 ========
adam@2117 4
adam@2117 5 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and optimization
adam@2117 6
adam@2100 7 ========
adam@2100 8 20150103
adam@2100 9 ========
adam@2100 10
adam@2100 11 - New antiquote syntax for 'ORDER BY' clauses
adam@2100 12 - New standard library function: List.mem
adam@2100 13 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference
adam@2100 14
adam@2088 15 ========
adam@2088 16 20141206
adam@2088 17 ========
adam@2088 18
adam@2088 19 - New HTML5 form widget tags and attributes
adam@2088 20 - New command-line option for HTTP servers: '-T', to set recv() timeout
adam@2088 21 - New C function uw_remoteSock() for use in FFI code
adam@2088 22 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and optimization
adam@2088 23
adam@2065 24 ========
adam@2065 25 20140830
adam@2065 26 ========
adam@2065 27
adam@2065 28 - New HTML attribute: 'role'
adam@2065 29 - Bug fixes
adam@2065 30
adam@2059 31 ========
adam@2059 32 20140819
adam@2059 33 ========
adam@2059 34
adam@2059 35 - Improvements to HTML model
adam@2059 36 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@2059 37
adam@2051 38 ========
adam@2051 39 20140807
adam@2051 40 ========
adam@2051 41
adam@2051 42 - New .urp directive: 'file'
adam@2051 43 - Support for 'aria-*' attributes in HTML
adam@2051 44 - Default value of 'jsFunc' for less-safe FFI
adam@2051 45 - Client-side implementation of Basis function 'strsindex'
adam@2051 46 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and documentation
adam@2051 47
adam@2036 48 ========
adam@2036 49 20140704
adam@2036 50 ========
adam@2036 51
adam@2036 52 - New syntactic shorthand for antiquoting subqueries
adam@2036 53 - New Top members: max and min
adam@2036 54 - 'sql_injectable_prim' instance for 'url'
adam@2036 55 - Bug fixes
adam@2036 56
adam@2027 57 ========
adam@2027 58 20140615
adam@2027 59 ========
adam@2027 60
adam@2027 61 - New syntactic sugar: 'let E where DS end' for 'let DS in E end'
adam@2027 62 - Add 'onChange' attributes to more tags.
adam@2027 63 - New standard library function: String.trim
adam@2027 64 - Start treating Ur/Web tag <button> as real HTML tag <button>,
adam@2027 65 with special handling of 'value' attribute as tag content.
adam@2027 66 - Bug fixes
adam@2027 67
adam@2018 68 ========
adam@2018 69 20140531
adam@2018 70 ========
adam@2018 71
adam@2018 72 - Parsing extension: monadic bind supports patterns, like "(x, y) <- a; b"
adam@2018 73 - New, optional less safe FFI
adam@2018 74 - New HTML tags: <tbody>, <tfoot>, <thead>
adam@2018 75 - HTML5 data-* attributes
adam@2018 76 - HTML5 semantic tags
adam@2018 77 - Syntactic sugar extension: allow parens grouping joins in FROM clauses
adam@2018 78 - Bug fixes and documentation improvements
adam@2018 79
adam@2003 80 ========
adam@2003 81 20140426
adam@2003 82 ========
adam@2003 83
adam@2003 84 - New Basis functions having to do with dates and times, wrapped nicely in new
adam@2003 85 Datetime module of standard library
adam@2003 86 - New .urp directives: 'html5', 'neverInline', 'noMangleSql'
adam@2003 87 - New command-line arguments: '-explainEmbed', '-stop'
adam@2003 88 - Changes to C FFI interface, especially for uw_register_transactional()
adam@2003 89 - 'Basis.getEnv' now always calls UNIX getenv() outside a page handler.
adam@2003 90 - Changed <active> to avoid generating an empty <span> for empty content.
adam@2003 91 - New HTML tag: <pre>
adam@2003 92 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference, optimizations, and documentation
adam@2003 93
adam@1950 94 ========
adam@1950 95 20131231
adam@1950 96 ========
adam@1950 97
adam@1950 98 - Performance optimizations for Ur/Web's standalone HTTP servers
adam@1950 99 - New command-line options for those servers: '-k' and '-q'
adam@1950 100 - New HTML pseudo-tag: <script>
adam@1950 101 - Trying to recv() from a different client's channel now triggers a run-time
adam@1950 102 error.
adam@1950 103 - New compiler command-line argument: -print-cinclude
adam@1950 104 - Bug fixes and improvements to optimizations, error messages, and documentation
adam@1950 105
adam@1911 106 ========
adam@1911 107 20131124
adam@1911 108 ========
adam@1911 109
adam@1911 110 - Extend 'where con' to allow descending into submodule structure
adam@1911 111 - Type inference improvements
adam@1911 112 - Treat transactional FFI functions as effectful by default,
adam@1911 113 so that 'effectful'/'benignEffectful' .urp directives aren't necessary
adam@1911 114 - Interpret 'table' signature items more flexibly,
adam@1911 115 automatically adding (Ur) constraints to support
adam@1911 116 a kind of subtyping over (SQL) constraint sets
adam@1911 117 - New header file scheme to support FFI code in either of C or C++
adam@1911 118 - New command-line arguments: -ccompiler, -print-ccompiler
adam@1911 119 - More HTML tags: <dd>, <dl>, <dt>, <em>, and <strong>
adam@1911 120 - Add 'rel' attribute to <a>
adam@1911 121 - New type synonym 'xhead'
adam@1911 122 - Refactored the development Mercurial repository to remove autogenerated files
adam@1911 123 - More integration with Autotools distribution functionality
adam@1911 124 - Improvements to documentation and compiler error messages
adam@1911 125 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1911 126
adam@1851 127 ========
adam@1851 128 20130421
adam@1851 129 ========
adam@1851 130
adam@1851 131 - Allow any FFI module to declare new HTML tags
adam@1851 132 - Ignore polymorphism in JavaScript calls to custom FFI functions, allowing a
adam@1851 133 kind of simple dynamic typing (unsafe, of course)
adam@1851 134 - Add some name-mangling rules to allow XML attribute 'name' and attributes with
adam@1851 135 dashes
adam@1851 136 - New Basis members: pow and tryRpc
adam@1851 137 - Add 'placeholder' attribute for <password>
adam@1851 138 - New standard library functions: Option.unsafeGet
adam@1851 139 - Add ./configure MLTONARGS option for MLTON arguments
adam@1851 140 - Bug fixes and documentation improvements
adam@1851 141
adam@1826 142 ========
adam@1826 143 20120925
adam@1826 144 ========
adam@1826 145
adam@1826 146 - Changes to optimization/compilation strategy that can speed up compilation and
adam@1826 147 reduce code size dramatically
adam@1826 148 - New .urp directives: 'coreInline' and 'monoInline'
adam@1826 149 - 'show' instance for 'sql_query'
adam@1826 150 - Improvements to compiler error messages
adam@1826 151 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1826 152
adam@1806 153 ========
adam@1806 154 20120807
adam@1806 155 ========
adam@1806 156
adam@1806 157 - Client-side mouse and keyboard event handlers are now functions over records.
adam@1806 158 - More flexibility in local type class instances
adam@1806 159 - Remove 'class' declaration; use 'con' instead now.
adam@1806 160 - SQL window functions
adam@1806 161 - New HTML pseudo-tag: <active>
adam@1806 162 - New Basis members: getenv (and associated functions), giveFocus
adam@1806 163 - New Top member: postFields (to process POST form data when called by some external script)
adam@1806 164 - HTTP daemons take '-a' option to set IP address to listen on
adam@1806 165 - More global mouse event hooks
adam@1806 166 - Bug fixes and performance improvements
adam@1806 167
adam@1771 168 ========
adam@1771 169 20120519
adam@1771 170 ========
adam@1771 171
adam@1771 172 - Compatibility fixes for new Automake and GCC versions
adam@1771 173 - Allow synchronous RPC's in 'onunload' code
adam@1771 174 - Start of special cases for parsing CSS class names: interpret "table" as identifier 'tabl'
adam@1771 175 (since 'table' is an Ur/Web keyword)
adam@1771 176 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and optimization
adam@1771 177
adam@1758 178 ========
adam@1758 179 20120512
adam@1758 180 ========
adam@1758 181
adam@1758 182 - New support for CSS style code embedded in Ur/Web programs.
adam@1758 183 Two recommended usage methods:
adam@1758 184 1. Use 'style' attributes with normal CSS syntax inside string literals.
adam@1758 185 2. Generate styles programmatically with the Style module of the Gui library
adam@1758 186 (distributed separately).
adam@1758 187 - 'dynStyle' attribute, which is to 'style' as 'dynClass' is to 'class'
adam@1758 188 - Parsing of standard syntax for 'class' attributes, via specially interpreted
adam@1758 189 string literals
adam@1758 190 - New optional suffix for 'rewrite' in .urp files: [-]
adam@1758 191 - Compiler error message improvements, including simplification of types
adam@1758 192 - New command line parameters: '-boot', '-dumpTypesOnError', '-unifyMore'
adam@1758 193 - New .urp directives: 'linker'
adam@1758 194 - Support for speeding up compilation by caching type inference results:
adam@1758 195 Run 'urweb daemon start' to spawn a background process,
adam@1758 196 'urweb daemon stop' to kill it.
adam@1758 197 - Enforcement of uniqueness of top-level module names across a project
adam@1758 198 - Adjust error message format to match Emacs compilation mode defaults
adam@1758 199 - More HTML attributes added
adam@1758 200 - New antiquote syntax for 'PRIMARY KEY'
adam@1758 201 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and platform compatibility
adam@1758 202
adam@1705 203 ========
adam@1705 204 20120329
adam@1705 205 ========
adam@1705 206
adam@1705 207 - New JavaScript FFI function: setInnerHTML
adam@1705 208 - Bug fixes
adam@1705 209 - Documentation improvements
adam@1705 210
adam@1693 211 ========
adam@1693 212 20120310
adam@1693 213 ========
adam@1693 214
adam@1693 215 - 'ORDER BY RANDOM'
adam@1693 216 - New Basis members: diffInMilliseconds, toMilliseconds
adam@1693 217 - <radio> widget now returns 'option string' instead of 'string'
adam@1693 218 - '-dumpSource' command-line flag
adam@1693 219 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1693 220
adam@1669 221 ========
adam@1669 222 20120110
adam@1669 223 ========
adam@1669 224
adam@1669 225 - Improvements to type inference and error messages
adam@1669 226 - New 'dynClass' pseudo-attribute for most HTML tags
adam@1669 227 - New 't.*' notation for selecting all columns of a table
adam@1669 228 - New SQL functions: 'lower' and 'upper'
adam@1669 229 - 'timeFormat' .urp directive
adam@1669 230 - Client-side 'debug' and 'naughtyDebug' calls use a browser debug console, if available
adam@1669 231 - Allow 'source' values to be returned by RPCs
adam@1669 232 - Change the HTML context classification scheme in 'Basis'
adam@1669 233 - Rename 'Top.id' to 'ident' to avoid clash with 'Basis.id'
adam@1669 234 - More client-side function implementations
adam@1669 235 - Some expanded reference manual sections
adam@1669 236 - Tweak to linker command line argument order (to prevent issues with new Ubuntu versions)
adam@1669 237 - Bug fixes
adam@1669 238
adam@1616 239 ========
adam@1616 240 20111127
adam@1616 241 ========
adam@1616 242
adam@1616 243 - Improvements to type inference and error messages
adam@1616 244 - New Basis members: ceil, float, null, round, trunc
adam@1616 245 - New SQL expression forms: 'IF..THEN..ELSE', 'COALESCE', and 'LIKE'
adam@1616 246 - Support for the full set of HTML character entities
adam@1616 247 - Client-side versions of some time-related functions
adam@1616 248 - New URWEB_PG_CON environment variable
adam@1616 249 - Allow arguments for 'con' signature items, not just declarations
adam@1616 250 - Bug fixes and performance improvements
adam@1616 251 - Tweaks for idiosyncrasies of OS X (like deprecated OpenSSL)
adam@1616 252
adam@1509 253 ========
adam@1561 254 20110917
adam@1509 255 ========
adam@1509 256
adam@1509 257 - Start of official tutorial
adam@1509 258 - Compiler support for generating nice tutorial HTML from literate source files
adam@1509 259 - New protocol 'static' for generating static pages
adam@1561 260 - Replace GCCARGS 'configure' variable with CCARGS
adam@1561 261 - Better support for compilation with Clang (including on OS X)
adam@1561 262 - Fancier 'configure' script with versioning
adam@1523 263 - Applications consult URWEB_STACK_SIZE environment variable to determine thread
adam@1523 264 stack size
adam@1561 265 - HTML tag IDs now drawn from an abstract type
adam@1561 266 - New Basis functions: diffInSeconds, mkMonad, onClick, onDblclick, onKeydown,
adam@1561 267 onKeypress, onKeyup, onMousedown, onMouseup, preventDefault, stopPropagation,
adam@1561 268 toSeconds
adam@1561 269 - Add <image> tag
adam@1561 270 - Add 'target' attribute for <a>
adam@1561 271 - New compiler command-line option: -dumpTypes
adam@1561 272 - New syntactic sugar for computed ORDER BY clauses
adam@1561 273 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1509 274
adam@1492 275 ========
adam@1492 276 20110715
adam@1492 277 ========
adam@1492 278
adam@1492 279 - Treat local variables the same as module-level variables, for the purpose of
adam@1492 280 implicit argument insertion
adam@1492 281 - New 'noXsrfProtection' directive for .urp files
adam@1492 282 - Non-debug builds omit source location information in error messages shown to
adam@1492 283 the user (but keep that information in log entries)
adam@1492 284 - Basis.getHeader and Basis.setHeader
adam@1492 285 - Basis.show_css_class
adam@1492 286 - Basis.currentUrlHasQueryString
adam@1492 287 - Make Basis.rand cryptographically secure
adam@1492 288 - Client-side versions of Basis.now and Basis.show_time
adam@1492 289 - Bug fixes
adam@1492 290 - Improvements to auto-configuration and build process (now builds with LLVM's
adam@1492 291 Clang!)
adam@1492 292 - Clarifications in the manual
adam@1492 293
adam@1458 294 ========
adam@1460 295 20110517
adam@1458 296 ========
adam@1458 297
adam@1458 298 - Cygwin compatibility
adam@1458 299 - Compatibility with Gentoo packaging process, including a .ebuild file
adam@1458 300 - Change typing of SQL subqueries, to indicate that they may always return NULL
adam@1458 301 (for no rows)
adam@1458 302 - Syntactic sugar for GROUP BY with variable numbers of columns
adam@1458 303 (using 'tab.{{c}}', where 'c :: {Type}')
adam@1458 304 - 'ALL' for SQL relational operators
adam@1458 305 - Add nullable types to the class for valid operands for SQL arithmetic
adam@1458 306 - 'alt' attribute for <img>
adam@1458 307 - <sup> and <sub> HTML tags
adam@1458 308 - Allow 'debug' and 'naughtyDebug' in client-side code, implemented with 'alert'
adam@1458 309 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1458 310
adam@1400 311 ========
adam@1414 312 20110123
adam@1400 313 ========
adam@1400 314
adam@1400 315 - Changes to encoding of SQL aggregate functions: nullable types may be
adam@1400 316 aggregated, and non-COUNT aggregates return nullable results.
adam@1400 317 - SQL subqueries may apply aggregate functions to columns bound in enclosing
adam@1400 318 queries.
adam@1400 319 - Switch from libmhash to OpenSSL.
adam@1400 320 - 'cdataChar', for injecting arbitrary character codes into XML
adam@1400 321 - 'crypt', for access to the standard UNIX password encryption routine
adam@1400 322 - 'readUtc', for parsing time strings in the UTC time zone
adam@1400 323 - Built-in 'time' type now stores microseconds (which for now are only used in
adam@1400 324 connection with Postgres timestamps).
adam@1400 325 - Client-side URL blessing and redirection
adam@1400 326 - 'currentUrlHasPost' function
adam@1400 327 - Transactional 'free' functions now passed an argument indicating whether the
adam@1400 328 runtime system expects to retry the transaction.
adam@1400 329 - Change tasks to allow task kind-specific inputs
adam@1400 330 - Add 'clientLeaves' and 'periodic' task kinds
adam@1400 331 - Support for externally-callable pages, via the 'postBody' and 'queryString'
adam@1400 332 types and the 'effectfulUrl' function
adam@1400 333 - 'minHeap' and 'alwaysInline' .urp options
adam@1400 334 - '-prefix' command-line option
adam@1400 335 - Comments in .urp files (lines starting with '#')
adam@1400 336 - Miscellaneous additions to the standard library
adam@1400 337 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and optimization
adam@1400 338
adam@1287 339 ========
adam@1315 340 20101102
adam@1287 341 ========
adam@1287 342
adam@1287 343 - Polymorphic variants (see Basis.variant)
adam@1297 344 - New 'onError' directive for .urp files
adam@1287 345 - (* *) and <!-- --> comments in XML
adam@1297 346 - Basis.classes, Basis.confirm, and Basis.tryDml
adam@1309 347 - New notations ::_ and :::_, for constructor parameters of unknown kind
adam@1297 348 - Invocations like 'urweb foo' will compile foo.ur as a single-file project,
adam@1297 349 even if no foo.urp exists
adam@1309 350 - '-limit' command-line flag and 'limit' .urp directive
adam@1297 351 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1287 352
adamc@1259 353 ========
adamc@1273 354 20100603
adamc@1259 355 ========
adamc@1259 356
adamc@1259 357 - Changed URL escaping convention, to avoid confusing proxies.
adamc@1259 358 The new convention is like the normal one, but with '.' instead of '%'.
adamc@1261 359 - Changed JavaScript compilation of recursive functions to use thunks.
adamc@1261 360 This change avoids most costs of functions not referenced on particular
adamc@1261 361 pages, reducing loading time dramatically.
adamc@1273 362 - Support HTTP caching of application-specific JavaScript code
adamc@1273 363 - Bug fixes
adamc@1259 364
adamc@1255 365 ========
adamc@1255 366 20100506
adamc@1255 367 ========
adamc@1255 368
adamc@1255 369 - New experimental checker for information flow and access control policies
adamc@1255 370 (See demo at http://www.impredicative.com/ur/scdv/)
adamc@1255 371
adamc@1197 372 ========
adamc@1197 373 20100401
adamc@1197 374 ========
adamc@1197 375
adamc@1197 376 - Subquery expressions and FROM items
adamc@1197 377 - Low-level support for SELECT with no FROM clause
adamc@1197 378 - Fixes for DBMS-portability of relational operators
adamc@1197 379
adamc@1183 380 ========
adamc@1190 381 20100325
adamc@1183 382 ========
adamc@1183 383
adamc@1188 384 - -verbose flag
adamc@1188 385 - COUNT(col) SQL aggregate function
adamc@1188 386 - 'benignEffectful' and 'safeGet' .urp commands
adamc@1188 387 - Remove Basis.getRequestHeader, since it can be used to circumvent cookie
adamc@1188 388 security
adamc@1190 389 - Rename Top.foldR*X to map*X
adamc@1188 390 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adamc@1183 391
adamc@1166 392 ========
adamc@1166 393 20100213
adamc@1166 394 ========
adamc@1166 395
adamc@1166 396 - Improvements to 'configure'; should now fail if any uncommon but required
adamc@1166 397 package is missing
adamc@1166 398 - Other fixes to configuration, build system, and C code portability
adamc@1166 399 - sigfile .urp directive & -sigfile command-line option
adamc@1166 400 - .urp files with no directives no longer need to begin with blank lines.
adamc@1166 401 - Other bug fixes
adamc@1166 402
adamc@1137 403 ========
adamc@1137 404 20100130
adamc@1137 405 ========
adamc@1137 406
adamc@1137 407 - Conversion to an Automake-based build system, for greater portability in
adamc@1137 408 building shared libraries
adamc@1137 409 - -path and -root command-line flags
adamc@1137 410 - Exported page handling functions (i.e., those page-generating functions
adamc@1137 411 appearing in the main module's signature) may now take any number of
adamc@1137 412 arguments, including 0.
adamc@1137 413
adamc@1123 414 ========
adamc@1123 415 20100112
adamc@1123 416 ========
adamc@1123 417
adamc@1123 418 - Basis.serialized type family, for storing more types in the database
adamc@1123 419 - Basis.textBlob, for building blobs from strings
adamc@1123 420 - Basis.debug function, for server-side debug printing
adamc@1123 421 - Bug fixes & optimization improvements
adamc@1123 422
adamc@1065 423 ========
adamc@1103 424 20091230
adamc@1065 425 ========
adamc@1065 426
adamc@1093 427 - Automatic insertion of implicit arguments in more positions
adamc@1065 428 - Reifying expressions as URLs and redirecting to them explicitly
adamc@1070 429 - More syntactic sugar for SQL
adamc@1070 430 - Typing of SQL queries no longer exposes which tables were used in joins but
adamc@1070 431 had none of their fields projected
adamc@1075 432 - Tasks
adamc@1095 433 - Dynamic linking of the runtime system
adamc@1077 434 - Optimization improvements
adamc@1103 435 - Bug fixes
adamc@1065 436
adamc@1050 437 ========
adamc@1056 438 20091203
adamc@1050 439 ========
adamc@1050 440
adamc@1050 441 - Extended cookie interface (breaks backward compatibility for 'setCookie')
adamc@1050 442 - Bug fixes
adamc@1056 443 - Extended UTF-8 characters in HTML
adamc@1050 444
adamc@1043 445 ========
adamc@1043 446 20091124
adamc@1043 447 ========
adamc@1043 448
adamc@1043 449 - Improved Internet Explorer compatibility
adamc@1043 450
adamc@1020 451 ========
adamc@1033 452 20091108
adamc@1020 453 ========
adamc@1020 454
adamc@1020 455 - Bug fixes
adamc@1020 456 - Optimization improvements
adamc@1021 457 - Removed a restriction that prevented some RPCs and calls to sleep or recv
adamc@1021 458 from compiling
adamc@1020 459
adamc@999 460 ========
adamc@999 461 20091012
adamc@999 462 ========
adamc@999 463
adamc@999 464 - Small bug fixes affecting MySQL and SQLite
adamc@999 465
adamc@988 466 ========
adamc@997 467 20091009
adamc@988 468 ========
adamc@988 469
adamc@988 470 - Bug fixes
adamc@988 471 - Improvement to choice of line number to cite in record unification error
adamc@988 472 messages
adamc@994 473 - SELECT DISTINCT
adamc@996 474 - New extra demos: orm1 and versioned1
adamc@988 475
adamc@985 476 ========
adamc@985 477 20090926
adamc@985 478 ========
adamc@985 479
adamc@985 480 - Reimplemented client-side code generation to use an interpreter, rather than
adamc@985 481 compilation to JavaScript; this avoids common browser flaws: lack of
adamc@985 482 optimization of tail calls and occasional bugs in closure handling.
adamc@985 483 - Bug fixes
adamc@985 484
adamc@968 485 ========
adamc@968 486 20090919
adamc@968 487 ========
adamc@968 488
adamc@968 489 - Bug fixes
adamc@968 490 - Optimization improvements
adamc@968 491 - Expanded grid demo in demo/more: optional columns, sorting, filtering,
adamc@968 492 paging, selecting rows, aggregate row
adamc@968 493
adamc@929 494 ========
adamc@929 495 20090912
adamc@929 496 ========
adamc@929 497
adamc@929 498 - Bug fixes
adamc@929 499 - Optimization improvements
adamc@929 500 - New set of extra demos in demo/more
adamc@929 501
adamc@914 502 ========
adamc@914 503 20090825
adamc@914 504 ========
adamc@914 505
adamc@914 506 - Many bug fixes
adamc@914 507 - Remote procedure calls must be marked with the new 'rpc' function.
adamc@914 508 - Some tweaks to enable usage on OSX (suggested by Paul Snively)
adamc@914 509
adamc@897 510 ========
adamc@897 511 20090718
adamc@897 512 ========
adamc@897 513
adamc@897 514 - New application protocols: CGI and FastCGI
adamc@897 515 - New database backends: MySQL and SQLite
adamc@897 516 - More JavaScript events added to tags in standard library
adamc@897 517 - New manual section on using the foreign function interface (FFI)
adamc@897 518
adamc@852 519 ========
adamc@852 520 20090623
adamc@852 521 ========
adamc@852 522
adamc@852 523 - Many bug fixes
adamc@852 524 - Mutually-recursive datatypes
adamc@852 525 - SML-style pattern-matching syntax for "fun", "fn", and local "val"
adamc@852 526 - Backwards-incompatible change to syntax of formal constructor parameters to
adamc@852 527 value-level functions, to support the previous change
adamc@852 528 - Path map support inspired by SML/NJ CM and MLton ML Basis
adamc@852 529 - Start of some new standard library modules
adamc@852 530 - Some improvements to JavaScript runtime, including better error handling
adamc@852 531
adamc@716 532 ========
adamc@790 533 20090505
adamc@716 534 ========
adamc@716 535
adamc@716 536 - Reimplement constructor class resolution to be more general and Prolog-like
adamc@716 537 - SQL table constraints
adamc@770 538 - URLs
adamc@736 539 - Client-side error handling callbacks
adamc@736 540 - CSS
adamc@736 541 - Signing cookie values cryptographically to thwart cross site request forgery
adamc@744 542 - Blobs and HTTP file upload
adamc@752 543 - SQL outer joins
adamc@755 544 - SQL views
adamc@756 545 - Subforms
adamc@768 546 - C and JavaScript FFI
adamc@768 547 - Path rewriting
adamc@716 548
adamc@702 549 ========
adamc@702 550 20090405
adamc@702 551 ========
adamc@702 552
adamc@702 553 - Asynchronous message-passing and the associated server-side client
adamc@702 554 bookkeeping
adamc@702 555 - Reimplement parts of the client-side runtime system to avoid space leaks
adamc@702 556 - spawn and sleep
adamc@702 557 - Expand the constructor class instance rule format
adamc@702 558
adamc@663 559 ========
adamc@663 560 20090312
adamc@663 561 ========
adamc@663 562
adamc@663 563 - Replace type-level "fold" with "map"
adamc@663 564 - Replace expression-level "fold" with folders, defined in Top and
adamc@663 565 supported by some special compiler inference
adamc@663 566 - Replace guarded constructors with guarded types, introduced only by
adamc@663 567 guarded expression abstraction, and with a new explicit application form
adamc@663 568 - Kind polymorphism
adamc@663 569 - Generalize type classes to constructor classes
adamc@663 570 - Initial compilation of client-side code to JavaScript
adamc@663 571 - Initial support for mixed client- and server-side programming (i.e., "AJAX")
adamc@665 572 - src/coq: Coq formalization of a core Ur-like calculus
adamc@663 573
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adamc@561 575 20081209
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adamc@506 578 - Optimization: Fusing page writes with calls to recursive functions
adamc@523 579 - Optimization of bottleneck compiler phases
adamc@561 580 - Reference manual
adamc@561 581 - SQL arithmetic operators
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adamc@504 584 20081120
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adamc@504 586
adamc@504 587 - Fix bug that sometimes led to omission of initial "<html>" in pages
adamc@504 588 - Take advantage of nested functions in some demos
adamc@504 589 - "profile" option that may appear in .urp files, to enable gprof profiling
adamc@663 590 - "-guided-demo" option that works like "-demo" but uses less screen space for
adamc@663 591 prose
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adamc@497 594 20081118
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adamc@467 597 - Nested function definitions
adamc@467 598 - Primitive "time" type
adamc@467 599 - Nullable SQL columns (via "option")
adamc@467 600 - Cookies
adamc@663 601 - Compiler: Specialization of functions to known arguments (especially of
adamc@663 602 function type)
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adamc@435 605 20081028
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adamc@435 607
adamc@435 608 - Add GCCARGS configure option
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adamc@433 611 20081027
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adamc@433 613
adamc@433 614 - On missing inputs, print an error message, but don't exit the web server.
adamc@434 615 - Remove need for "() <-" notation.
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adamc@433 618 20081026
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adamc@433 620
adamc@433 621 - Change 'sed' call to work on OSX.
adamc@433 622 - Avoid including or linking libpq files on apps that don't use SQL.