0.pre8.85

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1650,15 +1650,23 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
     Baumann)
   * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
     specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
+  * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
+    required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
+    DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.  (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
   * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
     not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
   * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
     Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
     Martinez)
-  * Experimental native threads support, on x86 Linux.  This is not 
+  * Experimental native threads support, on x86 Linux.  This is not
     compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to the target
-    features.  See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual for 
+    features.  See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual for
     details.
+  * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
+    call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
+    collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING.  If you were doing 
+    this you were probably losing anyway.
+
   * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
     repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
@@ -1672,6 +1680,15 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
     ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
        forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
        causes an error;
+    ** condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
+       times;  (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
+    ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY);  (thanks to
+       Gerd Moellmann)
+    ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns;
+    ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
+       arguments contain duplicated elements;
+    ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros;
+    ** ... and associates exactly its own restarts with a condition;
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles