functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
to warn on static type mismatches and function
redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
- * when issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
+ * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
+ * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
- handleable in a similar fashion; other than
- SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE, an implementation detail, no such
- note subtypes yet exist.
- * changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
+ handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
+ note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
+ but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
+ purpose above.)
+ * 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);
** type checking in branches (194bc).
- * VALUES declaration is disabled.
- * a short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
+ * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
checking).
* fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
- * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
+ * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
by Teemu Kalvas)
* bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
- lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
- * bug fix: defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
+ lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
+ * 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)
* fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
- integer argument).
+ integer argument)
* 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)
- * bug fix: in macro-like defining macros/special operators the
- implicit block does not enclose lambda list.
- * fixed bugs 10 and 43: VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER are not suitable as
- atomic type specifiers, and their use properly signals an error now.
- * bug fix: an argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
+ respectively change and preserve the value.
+ * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
+ is now better at handling symbol macros.
+ * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
+ CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
+ * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
+ implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
+ * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
+ enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
+ their use properly signals an error now.
+ * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
time, but signals a compile-time warning.
- * fixed simple vector readable printing.
+ * fixed simple vector readable printing
* bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
(reported by Markus Krummenacker)
* bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
* bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
- the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
- * fixed bug 235b: compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
- in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
- * bug fix: reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
- (e.g. '||::FOO) now works corectly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
+ the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
+ * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
+ in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
+ * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
+ (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
* 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
+ ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
- ** multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
+ ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
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
+ ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
- after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
+ 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
+ ** 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.
+ ** 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.