ats2-postiats-0.0.2:
Date: September 19, 2013
This is the second release of ATS2, the successor of the ATS
programming language. The compiler for ATS2 is given the name
ATS/Positats, ATS2/Postiats or simply Postiats.
The official website for ATS is:
http://www.ats-lang.org
ATS-Postiats is hosted at github:
https://github.com/githwxi/ATS-Postiats
Major releases of ATS2 are available at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ats2-lang/
Major releases of external packages for ATS2 are available at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ats2-lang-contrib/
Here is a list of major additions and changes since the last release:
1. Support for classdec.
This feature is primarily for building APIs in ATS for external
packages written in the OOP-style.
2. Support for ATS-package relocation.
This feature is primarily for renaming and relocating external ATS
packages (mostly library APIs). It is supposed to work together with
atspkgreloc, a tool that does the actual package relocation. The tool
is yet to be implemented.
3. Support for dot-notation overloading:
//
symintr .x .y
extern fun point_get_x (p: point): int
extern fun point_get_y (p: point): int
overload .x with point_get_x
overload .y with point_get_y
//
These declarations enable the following:
[p.x] translates into [point_get_x(p)]
[p.y] translates into [point_get_y(p)]
4. Fixing a very serious bug in pattern-matching compilation
5. Relocating contributed packages from ats2-lang to ats2-lang-contrib
6. Improving atslib: adding code, fixing bugs, improving documentation, etc.