Re: [pure-lang-users] Pure 0.6 round out

[Eddie R. <er...@bm...>]

On Sun 07/09/08  7:05 AM , Albert Graef Dr....@t-... sent:
> release, as it's taken shape in svn during the past two weeks. If you 
> still have some bug reports, now is the time!

I haven't been able to test lately. Sorry, I've been having to use Java to do some GUI/ODBC/CSV stuff for work. Some of 
you will probably tell me that I should be using VB for this, but VB costs more than my budget. I would like to use Pure 
for this someday time willing :) Java used to be small and clean but now it's an ugly hack and I had forgoten how verbose 
it is. I would use mzscheme for this, but srpersist only works on version 209 and there is no table or list view widget 
in the GUI kit. There is a table widget in PlaneT but that doesn't work on version 209. John, do you know of a scheme 
that has a GUI kit with a table, grid, or list view widget and an ODBC library? If Ocaml's ODBC module came as a binary, 
I would used that, but I cannot afford the VC compiler to compile it. I don't know if Mingw will compile it or not. 
Anyway, Java is already on all of the office computers and so my applications are ready to go with no installing.

> (Eddie, I haven't forgotten about the matrix/vector stuff, but with all
> the important new features already in 0.6, I just think it's better to 
> do a release now and then start working on the GSL support
> immediately.)

That is ok, I haven't had time see above. 

> - Macros: These are implemented as rewriting rules which are applied at
> - Thunks a.k.a. "futures": These are realized as anonymous
> - Private namespaces. You can now declare symbols as private in a 
> - Sentries (object finalizers) and references (mutable expression 
> - User-defined hook for the expression printer (__show__). This allows 
> The manual has been updated, too, so you can find further details

Wow, Albert has been a busy bee ;-) With a few libraries like GSL, ODBC, a GUI kit, and some kind of mechanism to move my 
programs to the office computers, I'll have a nice tool for most if not all of my tasks.

e.r.