0.8.0.60:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1776,6 +1776,10 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
     variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
     most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
     were silently accepted).
+  * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
+    afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
+    functions defined in the same file.  This also permits the system
+    to warn on static type mismatches and function redefinition.
   * changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
     ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
     ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
@@ -1798,6 +1802,17 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
   * bug fix: defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
     subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
     (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
+  * increased compilation speed of long MULTIPLE-VALUES-BIND.
+  * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
+    has been included.
+  * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
+    SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
+    constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
+    respectively change and preserve the value.
+  * fixed bug 63: the code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
+    is better at handling symbol macros.
+  * bug fix: there is no longer a type named LENGTH.  (reported by
+    Raymond Toy)
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
     ** arbitrary numbers, not just reals, are allowed in certain
@@ -1806,6 +1821,24 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
        causes a type error.
     ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
        association between the name and a class.
+    ** generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
+       six methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
+       after the first few invocations.  (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
+    ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
+       values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
+    ** functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
+       object.
+    ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
+    ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new
+       method.
+    ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
+       is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
+       argument is true.
+    ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
+       which its argument is a member.
+    ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
+       argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
+       otherwise, it creates a new class.
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles