** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
+ ** various problems in the backquote readmacro
He also pointed out some bogus old entries in BUGS, and fixed
a number of bugs which came into existence in the pre7 branch
(internal to the CVS repository), so that they never showed
:SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
built into the system.
-?? minor incompatible change: The debugger prompt sequence now goes
+* minor incompatible change: The debugger prompt sequence now goes
"5]", "5[2]", "5[3]", etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls
to the debugger command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]",
"5]]]" sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
-?? minor incompatible change: The default output representation for
- unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike e.g. #\Newline, don't
- have names defined in the ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based
- on their ASCII symbolic names: #\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.
+* minor incompatible change: The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII
+ characters which, unlike e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names
+ specified in the ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their
+ ASCII symbolic names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU CL
+ names (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR.
?? Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
- internal symbols, but a few external symbols like
+ internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected.
+* minor incompatible change (part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes
+ to DIRECTORY behavior): DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes
+ NIL slots of its pathname argument to :WILD, and in particular
+ asking for the contents of a directory, which you used to be able
+ to do without explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/"),
+ now needs explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
* minor incompatible change: DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by
the old deprecated name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE
for the defined function, since declaiming return types involving