Sunday, 28 November 2021
Jim Tcl version 0.81
ANNOUNCE: Jim Tcl version 0.81
Jim Tcl 0.81 has been released and is available from:
https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl
Find out all about Jim Tcl at http://jim.tcl.tk/
CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.80
This release contains bug fixes plus a number of additional features. A summary is below. See git for the full changelog.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.
Bugs fixed in version 0.81
info complete
- return 0 if the script is missing an end quotesqlite3
- return integers as 64 bit values, not 32 bit
Features and improvements added in version 0.81
- New redis client extension
expr
- TIP 582 - support comments in expressions- Many commands now accept “safe” integer expressions rather than simple integers:
loop
,range
,incr
,string repeat
,lrepeat
,pack
,unpack
,rand
string
andlist
indexes now accept “safe” integer expressionsloop
can now omit the start value- New
xtrace
command for execution trace support - Add
history keep
- Add support for
lsearch -index
andlsearch -stride
, the latter per TIP 351 lsort -index
now supports multiple indices- Add support for
lsort -stride
open
now supports POSIX-style access argumentssdl
extension now supports SDL2, and basic text support is added as well as polling support- ABI version checking is now available to allow dynamic modules to verify they are loaded into a compatible interpreter
Possible incompatibilities in version 0.81
- If the
--compat
configure option is not set,expr
now only allows a single argument (per TIP 526)
Steve Bennett (steveb@workware.net.au)
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