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Client-side conversion of string to bool
author Adam Chlipala <adam@chlipala.net>
date Thu, 25 Dec 2014 18:32:27 -0500
parents 4be82596b8e3
children e1724f279db7
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adam@2088 1 ========
adam@2088 2 20141206
adam@2088 3 ========
adam@2088 4
adam@2088 5 - New HTML5 form widget tags and attributes
adam@2088 6 - New command-line option for HTTP servers: '-T', to set recv() timeout
adam@2088 7 - New C function uw_remoteSock() for use in FFI code
adam@2088 8 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and optimization
adam@2088 9
adam@2065 10 ========
adam@2065 11 20140830
adam@2065 12 ========
adam@2065 13
adam@2065 14 - New HTML attribute: 'role'
adam@2065 15 - Bug fixes
adam@2065 16
adam@2059 17 ========
adam@2059 18 20140819
adam@2059 19 ========
adam@2059 20
adam@2059 21 - Improvements to HTML model
adam@2059 22 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@2059 23
adam@2051 24 ========
adam@2051 25 20140807
adam@2051 26 ========
adam@2051 27
adam@2051 28 - New .urp directive: 'file'
adam@2051 29 - Support for 'aria-*' attributes in HTML
adam@2051 30 - Default value of 'jsFunc' for less-safe FFI
adam@2051 31 - Client-side implementation of Basis function 'strsindex'
adam@2051 32 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and documentation
adam@2051 33
adam@2036 34 ========
adam@2036 35 20140704
adam@2036 36 ========
adam@2036 37
adam@2036 38 - New syntactic shorthand for antiquoting subqueries
adam@2036 39 - New Top members: max and min
adam@2036 40 - 'sql_injectable_prim' instance for 'url'
adam@2036 41 - Bug fixes
adam@2036 42
adam@2027 43 ========
adam@2027 44 20140615
adam@2027 45 ========
adam@2027 46
adam@2027 47 - New syntactic sugar: 'let E where DS end' for 'let DS in E end'
adam@2027 48 - Add 'onChange' attributes to more tags.
adam@2027 49 - New standard library function: String.trim
adam@2027 50 - Start treating Ur/Web tag <button> as real HTML tag <button>,
adam@2027 51 with special handling of 'value' attribute as tag content.
adam@2027 52 - Bug fixes
adam@2027 53
adam@2018 54 ========
adam@2018 55 20140531
adam@2018 56 ========
adam@2018 57
adam@2018 58 - Parsing extension: monadic bind supports patterns, like "(x, y) <- a; b"
adam@2018 59 - New, optional less safe FFI
adam@2018 60 - New HTML tags: <tbody>, <tfoot>, <thead>
adam@2018 61 - HTML5 data-* attributes
adam@2018 62 - HTML5 semantic tags
adam@2018 63 - Syntactic sugar extension: allow parens grouping joins in FROM clauses
adam@2018 64 - Bug fixes and documentation improvements
adam@2018 65
adam@2003 66 ========
adam@2003 67 20140426
adam@2003 68 ========
adam@2003 69
adam@2003 70 - New Basis functions having to do with dates and times, wrapped nicely in new
adam@2003 71 Datetime module of standard library
adam@2003 72 - New .urp directives: 'html5', 'neverInline', 'noMangleSql'
adam@2003 73 - New command-line arguments: '-explainEmbed', '-stop'
adam@2003 74 - Changes to C FFI interface, especially for uw_register_transactional()
adam@2003 75 - 'Basis.getEnv' now always calls UNIX getenv() outside a page handler.
adam@2003 76 - Changed <active> to avoid generating an empty <span> for empty content.
adam@2003 77 - New HTML tag: <pre>
adam@2003 78 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference, optimizations, and documentation
adam@2003 79
adam@1950 80 ========
adam@1950 81 20131231
adam@1950 82 ========
adam@1950 83
adam@1950 84 - Performance optimizations for Ur/Web's standalone HTTP servers
adam@1950 85 - New command-line options for those servers: '-k' and '-q'
adam@1950 86 - New HTML pseudo-tag: <script>
adam@1950 87 - Trying to recv() from a different client's channel now triggers a run-time
adam@1950 88 error.
adam@1950 89 - New compiler command-line argument: -print-cinclude
adam@1950 90 - Bug fixes and improvements to optimizations, error messages, and documentation
adam@1950 91
adam@1911 92 ========
adam@1911 93 20131124
adam@1911 94 ========
adam@1911 95
adam@1911 96 - Extend 'where con' to allow descending into submodule structure
adam@1911 97 - Type inference improvements
adam@1911 98 - Treat transactional FFI functions as effectful by default,
adam@1911 99 so that 'effectful'/'benignEffectful' .urp directives aren't necessary
adam@1911 100 - Interpret 'table' signature items more flexibly,
adam@1911 101 automatically adding (Ur) constraints to support
adam@1911 102 a kind of subtyping over (SQL) constraint sets
adam@1911 103 - New header file scheme to support FFI code in either of C or C++
adam@1911 104 - New command-line arguments: -ccompiler, -print-ccompiler
adam@1911 105 - More HTML tags: <dd>, <dl>, <dt>, <em>, and <strong>
adam@1911 106 - Add 'rel' attribute to <a>
adam@1911 107 - New type synonym 'xhead'
adam@1911 108 - Refactored the development Mercurial repository to remove autogenerated files
adam@1911 109 - More integration with Autotools distribution functionality
adam@1911 110 - Improvements to documentation and compiler error messages
adam@1911 111 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1911 112
adam@1851 113 ========
adam@1851 114 20130421
adam@1851 115 ========
adam@1851 116
adam@1851 117 - Allow any FFI module to declare new HTML tags
adam@1851 118 - Ignore polymorphism in JavaScript calls to custom FFI functions, allowing a
adam@1851 119 kind of simple dynamic typing (unsafe, of course)
adam@1851 120 - Add some name-mangling rules to allow XML attribute 'name' and attributes with
adam@1851 121 dashes
adam@1851 122 - New Basis members: pow and tryRpc
adam@1851 123 - Add 'placeholder' attribute for <password>
adam@1851 124 - New standard library functions: Option.unsafeGet
adam@1851 125 - Add ./configure MLTONARGS option for MLTON arguments
adam@1851 126 - Bug fixes and documentation improvements
adam@1851 127
adam@1826 128 ========
adam@1826 129 20120925
adam@1826 130 ========
adam@1826 131
adam@1826 132 - Changes to optimization/compilation strategy that can speed up compilation and
adam@1826 133 reduce code size dramatically
adam@1826 134 - New .urp directives: 'coreInline' and 'monoInline'
adam@1826 135 - 'show' instance for 'sql_query'
adam@1826 136 - Improvements to compiler error messages
adam@1826 137 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1826 138
adam@1806 139 ========
adam@1806 140 20120807
adam@1806 141 ========
adam@1806 142
adam@1806 143 - Client-side mouse and keyboard event handlers are now functions over records.
adam@1806 144 - More flexibility in local type class instances
adam@1806 145 - Remove 'class' declaration; use 'con' instead now.
adam@1806 146 - SQL window functions
adam@1806 147 - New HTML pseudo-tag: <active>
adam@1806 148 - New Basis members: getenv (and associated functions), giveFocus
adam@1806 149 - New Top member: postFields (to process POST form data when called by some external script)
adam@1806 150 - HTTP daemons take '-a' option to set IP address to listen on
adam@1806 151 - More global mouse event hooks
adam@1806 152 - Bug fixes and performance improvements
adam@1806 153
adam@1771 154 ========
adam@1771 155 20120519
adam@1771 156 ========
adam@1771 157
adam@1771 158 - Compatibility fixes for new Automake and GCC versions
adam@1771 159 - Allow synchronous RPC's in 'onunload' code
adam@1771 160 - Start of special cases for parsing CSS class names: interpret "table" as identifier 'tabl'
adam@1771 161 (since 'table' is an Ur/Web keyword)
adam@1771 162 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and optimization
adam@1771 163
adam@1758 164 ========
adam@1758 165 20120512
adam@1758 166 ========
adam@1758 167
adam@1758 168 - New support for CSS style code embedded in Ur/Web programs.
adam@1758 169 Two recommended usage methods:
adam@1758 170 1. Use 'style' attributes with normal CSS syntax inside string literals.
adam@1758 171 2. Generate styles programmatically with the Style module of the Gui library
adam@1758 172 (distributed separately).
adam@1758 173 - 'dynStyle' attribute, which is to 'style' as 'dynClass' is to 'class'
adam@1758 174 - Parsing of standard syntax for 'class' attributes, via specially interpreted
adam@1758 175 string literals
adam@1758 176 - New optional suffix for 'rewrite' in .urp files: [-]
adam@1758 177 - Compiler error message improvements, including simplification of types
adam@1758 178 - New command line parameters: '-boot', '-dumpTypesOnError', '-unifyMore'
adam@1758 179 - New .urp directives: 'linker'
adam@1758 180 - Support for speeding up compilation by caching type inference results:
adam@1758 181 Run 'urweb daemon start' to spawn a background process,
adam@1758 182 'urweb daemon stop' to kill it.
adam@1758 183 - Enforcement of uniqueness of top-level module names across a project
adam@1758 184 - Adjust error message format to match Emacs compilation mode defaults
adam@1758 185 - More HTML attributes added
adam@1758 186 - New antiquote syntax for 'PRIMARY KEY'
adam@1758 187 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and platform compatibility
adam@1758 188
adam@1705 189 ========
adam@1705 190 20120329
adam@1705 191 ========
adam@1705 192
adam@1705 193 - New JavaScript FFI function: setInnerHTML
adam@1705 194 - Bug fixes
adam@1705 195 - Documentation improvements
adam@1705 196
adam@1693 197 ========
adam@1693 198 20120310
adam@1693 199 ========
adam@1693 200
adam@1693 201 - 'ORDER BY RANDOM'
adam@1693 202 - New Basis members: diffInMilliseconds, toMilliseconds
adam@1693 203 - <radio> widget now returns 'option string' instead of 'string'
adam@1693 204 - '-dumpSource' command-line flag
adam@1693 205 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1693 206
adam@1669 207 ========
adam@1669 208 20120110
adam@1669 209 ========
adam@1669 210
adam@1669 211 - Improvements to type inference and error messages
adam@1669 212 - New 'dynClass' pseudo-attribute for most HTML tags
adam@1669 213 - New 't.*' notation for selecting all columns of a table
adam@1669 214 - New SQL functions: 'lower' and 'upper'
adam@1669 215 - 'timeFormat' .urp directive
adam@1669 216 - Client-side 'debug' and 'naughtyDebug' calls use a browser debug console, if available
adam@1669 217 - Allow 'source' values to be returned by RPCs
adam@1669 218 - Change the HTML context classification scheme in 'Basis'
adam@1669 219 - Rename 'Top.id' to 'ident' to avoid clash with 'Basis.id'
adam@1669 220 - More client-side function implementations
adam@1669 221 - Some expanded reference manual sections
adam@1669 222 - Tweak to linker command line argument order (to prevent issues with new Ubuntu versions)
adam@1669 223 - Bug fixes
adam@1669 224
adam@1616 225 ========
adam@1616 226 20111127
adam@1616 227 ========
adam@1616 228
adam@1616 229 - Improvements to type inference and error messages
adam@1616 230 - New Basis members: ceil, float, null, round, trunc
adam@1616 231 - New SQL expression forms: 'IF..THEN..ELSE', 'COALESCE', and 'LIKE'
adam@1616 232 - Support for the full set of HTML character entities
adam@1616 233 - Client-side versions of some time-related functions
adam@1616 234 - New URWEB_PG_CON environment variable
adam@1616 235 - Allow arguments for 'con' signature items, not just declarations
adam@1616 236 - Bug fixes and performance improvements
adam@1616 237 - Tweaks for idiosyncrasies of OS X (like deprecated OpenSSL)
adam@1616 238
adam@1509 239 ========
adam@1561 240 20110917
adam@1509 241 ========
adam@1509 242
adam@1509 243 - Start of official tutorial
adam@1509 244 - Compiler support for generating nice tutorial HTML from literate source files
adam@1509 245 - New protocol 'static' for generating static pages
adam@1561 246 - Replace GCCARGS 'configure' variable with CCARGS
adam@1561 247 - Better support for compilation with Clang (including on OS X)
adam@1561 248 - Fancier 'configure' script with versioning
adam@1523 249 - Applications consult URWEB_STACK_SIZE environment variable to determine thread
adam@1523 250 stack size
adam@1561 251 - HTML tag IDs now drawn from an abstract type
adam@1561 252 - New Basis functions: diffInSeconds, mkMonad, onClick, onDblclick, onKeydown,
adam@1561 253 onKeypress, onKeyup, onMousedown, onMouseup, preventDefault, stopPropagation,
adam@1561 254 toSeconds
adam@1561 255 - Add <image> tag
adam@1561 256 - Add 'target' attribute for <a>
adam@1561 257 - New compiler command-line option: -dumpTypes
adam@1561 258 - New syntactic sugar for computed ORDER BY clauses
adam@1561 259 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1509 260
adam@1492 261 ========
adam@1492 262 20110715
adam@1492 263 ========
adam@1492 264
adam@1492 265 - Treat local variables the same as module-level variables, for the purpose of
adam@1492 266 implicit argument insertion
adam@1492 267 - New 'noXsrfProtection' directive for .urp files
adam@1492 268 - Non-debug builds omit source location information in error messages shown to
adam@1492 269 the user (but keep that information in log entries)
adam@1492 270 - Basis.getHeader and Basis.setHeader
adam@1492 271 - Basis.show_css_class
adam@1492 272 - Basis.currentUrlHasQueryString
adam@1492 273 - Make Basis.rand cryptographically secure
adam@1492 274 - Client-side versions of Basis.now and Basis.show_time
adam@1492 275 - Bug fixes
adam@1492 276 - Improvements to auto-configuration and build process (now builds with LLVM's
adam@1492 277 Clang!)
adam@1492 278 - Clarifications in the manual
adam@1492 279
adam@1458 280 ========
adam@1460 281 20110517
adam@1458 282 ========
adam@1458 283
adam@1458 284 - Cygwin compatibility
adam@1458 285 - Compatibility with Gentoo packaging process, including a .ebuild file
adam@1458 286 - Change typing of SQL subqueries, to indicate that they may always return NULL
adam@1458 287 (for no rows)
adam@1458 288 - Syntactic sugar for GROUP BY with variable numbers of columns
adam@1458 289 (using 'tab.{{c}}', where 'c :: {Type}')
adam@1458 290 - 'ALL' for SQL relational operators
adam@1458 291 - Add nullable types to the class for valid operands for SQL arithmetic
adam@1458 292 - 'alt' attribute for <img>
adam@1458 293 - <sup> and <sub> HTML tags
adam@1458 294 - Allow 'debug' and 'naughtyDebug' in client-side code, implemented with 'alert'
adam@1458 295 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1458 296
adam@1400 297 ========
adam@1414 298 20110123
adam@1400 299 ========
adam@1400 300
adam@1400 301 - Changes to encoding of SQL aggregate functions: nullable types may be
adam@1400 302 aggregated, and non-COUNT aggregates return nullable results.
adam@1400 303 - SQL subqueries may apply aggregate functions to columns bound in enclosing
adam@1400 304 queries.
adam@1400 305 - Switch from libmhash to OpenSSL.
adam@1400 306 - 'cdataChar', for injecting arbitrary character codes into XML
adam@1400 307 - 'crypt', for access to the standard UNIX password encryption routine
adam@1400 308 - 'readUtc', for parsing time strings in the UTC time zone
adam@1400 309 - Built-in 'time' type now stores microseconds (which for now are only used in
adam@1400 310 connection with Postgres timestamps).
adam@1400 311 - Client-side URL blessing and redirection
adam@1400 312 - 'currentUrlHasPost' function
adam@1400 313 - Transactional 'free' functions now passed an argument indicating whether the
adam@1400 314 runtime system expects to retry the transaction.
adam@1400 315 - Change tasks to allow task kind-specific inputs
adam@1400 316 - Add 'clientLeaves' and 'periodic' task kinds
adam@1400 317 - Support for externally-callable pages, via the 'postBody' and 'queryString'
adam@1400 318 types and the 'effectfulUrl' function
adam@1400 319 - 'minHeap' and 'alwaysInline' .urp options
adam@1400 320 - '-prefix' command-line option
adam@1400 321 - Comments in .urp files (lines starting with '#')
adam@1400 322 - Miscellaneous additions to the standard library
adam@1400 323 - Bug fixes and improvements to type inference and optimization
adam@1400 324
adam@1287 325 ========
adam@1315 326 20101102
adam@1287 327 ========
adam@1287 328
adam@1287 329 - Polymorphic variants (see Basis.variant)
adam@1297 330 - New 'onError' directive for .urp files
adam@1287 331 - (* *) and <!-- --> comments in XML
adam@1297 332 - Basis.classes, Basis.confirm, and Basis.tryDml
adam@1309 333 - New notations ::_ and :::_, for constructor parameters of unknown kind
adam@1297 334 - Invocations like 'urweb foo' will compile foo.ur as a single-file project,
adam@1297 335 even if no foo.urp exists
adam@1309 336 - '-limit' command-line flag and 'limit' .urp directive
adam@1297 337 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adam@1287 338
adamc@1259 339 ========
adamc@1273 340 20100603
adamc@1259 341 ========
adamc@1259 342
adamc@1259 343 - Changed URL escaping convention, to avoid confusing proxies.
adamc@1259 344 The new convention is like the normal one, but with '.' instead of '%'.
adamc@1261 345 - Changed JavaScript compilation of recursive functions to use thunks.
adamc@1261 346 This change avoids most costs of functions not referenced on particular
adamc@1261 347 pages, reducing loading time dramatically.
adamc@1273 348 - Support HTTP caching of application-specific JavaScript code
adamc@1273 349 - Bug fixes
adamc@1259 350
adamc@1255 351 ========
adamc@1255 352 20100506
adamc@1255 353 ========
adamc@1255 354
adamc@1255 355 - New experimental checker for information flow and access control policies
adamc@1255 356 (See demo at http://www.impredicative.com/ur/scdv/)
adamc@1255 357
adamc@1197 358 ========
adamc@1197 359 20100401
adamc@1197 360 ========
adamc@1197 361
adamc@1197 362 - Subquery expressions and FROM items
adamc@1197 363 - Low-level support for SELECT with no FROM clause
adamc@1197 364 - Fixes for DBMS-portability of relational operators
adamc@1197 365
adamc@1183 366 ========
adamc@1190 367 20100325
adamc@1183 368 ========
adamc@1183 369
adamc@1188 370 - -verbose flag
adamc@1188 371 - COUNT(col) SQL aggregate function
adamc@1188 372 - 'benignEffectful' and 'safeGet' .urp commands
adamc@1188 373 - Remove Basis.getRequestHeader, since it can be used to circumvent cookie
adamc@1188 374 security
adamc@1190 375 - Rename Top.foldR*X to map*X
adamc@1188 376 - Bug fixes and optimization improvements
adamc@1183 377
adamc@1166 378 ========
adamc@1166 379 20100213
adamc@1166 380 ========
adamc@1166 381
adamc@1166 382 - Improvements to 'configure'; should now fail if any uncommon but required
adamc@1166 383 package is missing
adamc@1166 384 - Other fixes to configuration, build system, and C code portability
adamc@1166 385 - sigfile .urp directive & -sigfile command-line option
adamc@1166 386 - .urp files with no directives no longer need to begin with blank lines.
adamc@1166 387 - Other bug fixes
adamc@1166 388
adamc@1137 389 ========
adamc@1137 390 20100130
adamc@1137 391 ========
adamc@1137 392
adamc@1137 393 - Conversion to an Automake-based build system, for greater portability in
adamc@1137 394 building shared libraries
adamc@1137 395 - -path and -root command-line flags
adamc@1137 396 - Exported page handling functions (i.e., those page-generating functions
adamc@1137 397 appearing in the main module's signature) may now take any number of
adamc@1137 398 arguments, including 0.
adamc@1137 399
adamc@1123 400 ========
adamc@1123 401 20100112
adamc@1123 402 ========
adamc@1123 403
adamc@1123 404 - Basis.serialized type family, for storing more types in the database
adamc@1123 405 - Basis.textBlob, for building blobs from strings
adamc@1123 406 - Basis.debug function, for server-side debug printing
adamc@1123 407 - Bug fixes & optimization improvements
adamc@1123 408
adamc@1065 409 ========
adamc@1103 410 20091230
adamc@1065 411 ========
adamc@1065 412
adamc@1093 413 - Automatic insertion of implicit arguments in more positions
adamc@1065 414 - Reifying expressions as URLs and redirecting to them explicitly
adamc@1070 415 - More syntactic sugar for SQL
adamc@1070 416 - Typing of SQL queries no longer exposes which tables were used in joins but
adamc@1070 417 had none of their fields projected
adamc@1075 418 - Tasks
adamc@1095 419 - Dynamic linking of the runtime system
adamc@1077 420 - Optimization improvements
adamc@1103 421 - Bug fixes
adamc@1065 422
adamc@1050 423 ========
adamc@1056 424 20091203
adamc@1050 425 ========
adamc@1050 426
adamc@1050 427 - Extended cookie interface (breaks backward compatibility for 'setCookie')
adamc@1050 428 - Bug fixes
adamc@1056 429 - Extended UTF-8 characters in HTML
adamc@1050 430
adamc@1043 431 ========
adamc@1043 432 20091124
adamc@1043 433 ========
adamc@1043 434
adamc@1043 435 - Improved Internet Explorer compatibility
adamc@1043 436
adamc@1020 437 ========
adamc@1033 438 20091108
adamc@1020 439 ========
adamc@1020 440
adamc@1020 441 - Bug fixes
adamc@1020 442 - Optimization improvements
adamc@1021 443 - Removed a restriction that prevented some RPCs and calls to sleep or recv
adamc@1021 444 from compiling
adamc@1020 445
adamc@999 446 ========
adamc@999 447 20091012
adamc@999 448 ========
adamc@999 449
adamc@999 450 - Small bug fixes affecting MySQL and SQLite
adamc@999 451
adamc@988 452 ========
adamc@997 453 20091009
adamc@988 454 ========
adamc@988 455
adamc@988 456 - Bug fixes
adamc@988 457 - Improvement to choice of line number to cite in record unification error
adamc@988 458 messages
adamc@994 459 - SELECT DISTINCT
adamc@996 460 - New extra demos: orm1 and versioned1
adamc@988 461
adamc@985 462 ========
adamc@985 463 20090926
adamc@985 464 ========
adamc@985 465
adamc@985 466 - Reimplemented client-side code generation to use an interpreter, rather than
adamc@985 467 compilation to JavaScript; this avoids common browser flaws: lack of
adamc@985 468 optimization of tail calls and occasional bugs in closure handling.
adamc@985 469 - Bug fixes
adamc@985 470
adamc@968 471 ========
adamc@968 472 20090919
adamc@968 473 ========
adamc@968 474
adamc@968 475 - Bug fixes
adamc@968 476 - Optimization improvements
adamc@968 477 - Expanded grid demo in demo/more: optional columns, sorting, filtering,
adamc@968 478 paging, selecting rows, aggregate row
adamc@968 479
adamc@929 480 ========
adamc@929 481 20090912
adamc@929 482 ========
adamc@929 483
adamc@929 484 - Bug fixes
adamc@929 485 - Optimization improvements
adamc@929 486 - New set of extra demos in demo/more
adamc@929 487
adamc@914 488 ========
adamc@914 489 20090825
adamc@914 490 ========
adamc@914 491
adamc@914 492 - Many bug fixes
adamc@914 493 - Remote procedure calls must be marked with the new 'rpc' function.
adamc@914 494 - Some tweaks to enable usage on OSX (suggested by Paul Snively)
adamc@914 495
adamc@897 496 ========
adamc@897 497 20090718
adamc@897 498 ========
adamc@897 499
adamc@897 500 - New application protocols: CGI and FastCGI
adamc@897 501 - New database backends: MySQL and SQLite
adamc@897 502 - More JavaScript events added to tags in standard library
adamc@897 503 - New manual section on using the foreign function interface (FFI)
adamc@897 504
adamc@852 505 ========
adamc@852 506 20090623
adamc@852 507 ========
adamc@852 508
adamc@852 509 - Many bug fixes
adamc@852 510 - Mutually-recursive datatypes
adamc@852 511 - SML-style pattern-matching syntax for "fun", "fn", and local "val"
adamc@852 512 - Backwards-incompatible change to syntax of formal constructor parameters to
adamc@852 513 value-level functions, to support the previous change
adamc@852 514 - Path map support inspired by SML/NJ CM and MLton ML Basis
adamc@852 515 - Start of some new standard library modules
adamc@852 516 - Some improvements to JavaScript runtime, including better error handling
adamc@852 517
adamc@716 518 ========
adamc@790 519 20090505
adamc@716 520 ========
adamc@716 521
adamc@716 522 - Reimplement constructor class resolution to be more general and Prolog-like
adamc@716 523 - SQL table constraints
adamc@770 524 - URLs
adamc@736 525 - Client-side error handling callbacks
adamc@736 526 - CSS
adamc@736 527 - Signing cookie values cryptographically to thwart cross site request forgery
adamc@744 528 - Blobs and HTTP file upload
adamc@752 529 - SQL outer joins
adamc@755 530 - SQL views
adamc@756 531 - Subforms
adamc@768 532 - C and JavaScript FFI
adamc@768 533 - Path rewriting
adamc@716 534
adamc@702 535 ========
adamc@702 536 20090405
adamc@702 537 ========
adamc@702 538
adamc@702 539 - Asynchronous message-passing and the associated server-side client
adamc@702 540 bookkeeping
adamc@702 541 - Reimplement parts of the client-side runtime system to avoid space leaks
adamc@702 542 - spawn and sleep
adamc@702 543 - Expand the constructor class instance rule format
adamc@702 544
adamc@663 545 ========
adamc@663 546 20090312
adamc@663 547 ========
adamc@663 548
adamc@663 549 - Replace type-level "fold" with "map"
adamc@663 550 - Replace expression-level "fold" with folders, defined in Top and
adamc@663 551 supported by some special compiler inference
adamc@663 552 - Replace guarded constructors with guarded types, introduced only by
adamc@663 553 guarded expression abstraction, and with a new explicit application form
adamc@663 554 - Kind polymorphism
adamc@663 555 - Generalize type classes to constructor classes
adamc@663 556 - Initial compilation of client-side code to JavaScript
adamc@663 557 - Initial support for mixed client- and server-side programming (i.e., "AJAX")
adamc@665 558 - src/coq: Coq formalization of a core Ur-like calculus
adamc@663 559
adamc@506 560 ========
adamc@561 561 20081209
adamc@506 562 ========
adamc@506 563
adamc@506 564 - Optimization: Fusing page writes with calls to recursive functions
adamc@523 565 - Optimization of bottleneck compiler phases
adamc@561 566 - Reference manual
adamc@561 567 - SQL arithmetic operators
adamc@506 568
adamc@504 569 ========
adamc@504 570 20081120
adamc@504 571 ========
adamc@504 572
adamc@504 573 - Fix bug that sometimes led to omission of initial "<html>" in pages
adamc@504 574 - Take advantage of nested functions in some demos
adamc@504 575 - "profile" option that may appear in .urp files, to enable gprof profiling
adamc@663 576 - "-guided-demo" option that works like "-demo" but uses less screen space for
adamc@663 577 prose
adamc@504 578
adamc@467 579 ========
adamc@497 580 20081118
adamc@467 581 ========
adamc@467 582
adamc@467 583 - Nested function definitions
adamc@467 584 - Primitive "time" type
adamc@467 585 - Nullable SQL columns (via "option")
adamc@467 586 - Cookies
adamc@663 587 - Compiler: Specialization of functions to known arguments (especially of
adamc@663 588 function type)
adamc@467 589
adamc@435 590 ========
adamc@435 591 20081028
adamc@435 592 ========
adamc@435 593
adamc@435 594 - Add GCCARGS configure option
adamc@435 595
adamc@433 596 ========
adamc@433 597 20081027
adamc@433 598 ========
adamc@433 599
adamc@433 600 - On missing inputs, print an error message, but don't exit the web server.
adamc@434 601 - Remove need for "() <-" notation.
adamc@433 602
adamc@433 603 ========
adamc@433 604 20081026
adamc@433 605 ========
adamc@433 606
adamc@433 607 - Change 'sed' call to work on OSX.
adamc@433 608 - Avoid including or linking libpq files on apps that don't use SQL.