release newLISP version 10.0

[Lutz]

• A new generation of newLISP

Release notes: http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newLIS ... lease.html

All files: http://www.newlisp.org/downloads

Ps: checksums done with: openssl dgst -sha1

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[Kazimir Majorinc]

Congratulations, best wishes and thanks.

[newdep]

champagne! <...PloP...>

[unixtechie]

champagne and fireworks ;))))

[cormullion]

Congratulations! Time to start coding!

Days to competition deadline:

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> (load "http://unbalanced-parentheses.nfshost.com/downloads/timeutilities.lsp.txt")
> (Duration:list-to-string (:period-to-list (Duration (:period (Time) (Time 2008 12 31 23 59 59)))))
"23d 04h 25m 45s"

(well, I don't recommend you download and run code like this... :)

[itistoday]

Congrats! :-D

(btw Lutz, are you on Twitter?)

[itistoday]

Ack! Can't run the intel .pkg, it reports that I've got a newer version of newlisp installed (I don't, I have 9.9.96).

[Lutz]

Do the uninstall, then install again.

or do manually:

sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/newLISPpackage.pkg/

this is part of the uninstall.command script (you dbl-click on it) in the installation newlisp-10.0.0-intel.dmg

I am not on twitter.

thanks for all the congratulations, also posted the newlisp_manual.pdf 2 hours ago.

[itistoday]

Sorry, I didn't mean to make that sound like a cry for help, was just reporting it in case this was something you wanted to know about.

[newdep]

Lutz,

What again where the right printing formats when you want to
print the newlisp manual?


Edit: fount it...
Print double sided on 8.5x11 inch or DIN A4 size paper, then cut to 7 x 9 inches and bind.

[cormullion]

Yes, I often get that "newer package" problem too. I don't really understand why, but it happened in earlier releases too.

[ale870]

Wow! Congratulations and thank you!
newLisp is the best scripting language I ever used!

[donkey]

Wonderful, I've been waiting for this :). Best regards!

[pjot]

After some days of testing and trying really hard to find a bug, I couldn't find anything.... One moment I thought there was something with the UTF-8 stuff but it appeared to be a bug on my side :-)

So congrats! I will convert my old stuff to newLisp10 :-)

Peter

[xytroxon]

newLISP 10.0 Manuel's errors er. "manual" spelling errors ;)

(search for -> and replace with)

amnd -> and

arccosine -> arc-cosine used else where

"terms are of different arity" parity?

avalailable -> available

diffferent -> different

eturned -> returned

exection -> execution

fuction -> function

implixit -> implicit

initilization -> initialization

interation -> iteration

loalhost -> localhost

loded -> loaded

otherwis -> otherwize

prefined -> predefined

ramaining -> remaining

specifiy -> specify

standrad -> standard

structurei -> structure (think I reported this earlier)

surroundng -> surrounding

sytem -> system

useres -> users

-- xytroxon

[xytroxon]

Some I just found in Code Patterns to fix (may be some variable names)

caugth

chracter

conventsions

differencing

distibuted

eilnpsw

elmnt

exampls

extabish

fropm

fucntion

funcion

indetd

nde

netcat

nodep

nohup

prodcons

resuls

solutions

somefile

sring

transfomed

-- xytroxon

[Lutz]

Thanks to xytroxon and all the others sending in corrections for documentation. A new version of Code Patterns is online here:

http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/CodePatterns.html

The manual was updated last on december 20th.

There will be a 10.0.1 maintenance release update during the first week of January, fixing some bugs and updating some external files. Most of these files are already online, i.e. stat.lsp and newLISPdoc.html.

Many thanks to everybody in the community for their participation and advice.

To all a good transition into a happy and peaceful year 2009.

[Jeremy Dunn]

Sorry Xytotron, there is a typo in your typos! it should be

otherwis -> otherwise

not

otherwis -> otherwize

[xytroxon]

Sorry Xytotron, there is a typo in your typos! it should be

otherwis -> otherwise

not

otherwis -> otherwize

Thankzzz!

Muzzzt of been the early AM hour here... ;)

--xytroxon

[didi]

I can't write-line to a file , maybe a bug, maybe i'm to dumb - i tried it in a program and than with the original-sample from the manual:

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( set 'out-file (open "myfile" "write" ))
( write-line "hello there" out-file )
( close out-file )

leads to :
ERR: string expected in function write-line : out-file

my system : windows-xp

[xytroxon]

You are confused by the "string device" syntax verses the "file device" syntax...

Change:

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( write-line "hello there" out-file )

To:

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( write-line out-file "hello there" )

-- xytroxon

[Lutz]

'write-line' changed order of parameters for 10.0, but unfortunately the string device example in the reference didn't get converted, now corrected:

http://www.newlisp.org/newlisp_manual.html#write-line

the I/O device is now always the first parameter

[didi]

Thanks for the fast help - now it works fine.

[newBert]

newLISP 10.0 Manual

Functions with memory

A default function can update the lexically isolated static variables contained inside its namespace:

;; a function with memory

(define (Gen:Gen x)
(if Gen:acc
(inc Gen:acc x)
(set Gen:acc x)))

(Gen 1) → 1
(Gen 1) → 2
(Gen 2) → 4
(Gen 3) → 7

gen:acc → 7

The first time the Gen function is called, its accumulator is set to the value of the argument. Each successive call increments Gen's accumulator by the argument's value.

The definition of Gen:Gen shows, how a fuction is put in its own namespace without using the surroundng (context 'Gen) and (context MAIN) statements. In that case only symbols qualified by the namespace prefix will end up in the Gen context. In the above example the variable x is still part of MAIN.

and the example causes an error:

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ERR: symbol expected in function set : acc
called from user defined function Gen

(set Gen:acc x) ought to be replaced by (setq Gen:acc x) or (set 'Gen:acc x)

[DrDave]

newLISP 10.0 Manual

A default function can update the lexically isolated static variables contained inside its namespace:

;; a function with memory

(define (Gen:Gen x)
(if Gen:acc
(inc Gen:acc x)
(setq Gen:acc x)))

On v.9.9.4 Win32 I additionally had to add a quote to the inc code:
replace (inc Gen:acc x)
with (inc 'Gen:acc x)

(Don't have v10 installed on this computer.)