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This message announces the availability of Scheme Library release slib3a4.

SLIB is a portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility
functions for all standard Scheme implementations.

SLIB supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK 3.0, GAMBIT 3.0, Guile, JScheme,
MacScheme, MITScheme, PLT Scheme (DrScheme and MzScheme), Pocket
Scheme, RScheme, scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCM Mac, scsh, Stk, T3.1,
umb-scheme, and VSCM.

SLIB is free software.  It has a Permissive-Non-Warranty license
(http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB_COPYING.txt).

Documentation and distributions in several formats are linked from
SLIB's home page:

             http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html

Links to distributions of SLIB and related softwares are at the end of
this message.

				-=-=-
slib3a4 news:

+ Discreet Fourier Transforms of any rank.

+ Added SRFI-94 and SRFI-23

From Ivan Shmakov

  * scheme48.init (file-exists?): Much simplified.

From Kevin Ryde

  * guile.init: Fixed line-i/o in Guile >= 1.8.

  * srfi-1.scm (reduce-right): Was infinite loop.

From Ben Goetter

  * pscheme.init: Revised for Pscheme 1.3.

From Aubrey Jaffer

  * dft.scm (dft, dft-1): Added routines which use the best method
  for decimating each dimension.
  (dft:dft): Call 1d transform only with contiguous arrays.
  (sft, sft-1, fft, fft-1): Added optional array-prototype argument.
  (sft, sft-1): Slow Fourier transforms added.
  (dft:sft1d!, dft:fft1d!): Flipped polarity of exponent to agree
  with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_Fourier_transform.
  Generalized to any positive rank.
  Renamed from "fft.scm".

  * slib.texi (Sorting): Updated; cleaned up.
  (Sorting): Added optional KEY arguments.
  * sort.scm (merge!): Fixed.
  (sort!): Swap pairs so that list returned EQ? to argument.
  (sort, sort!, sorted?, merge, merge!): Added optional KEY argument.

  * tzfile.scm (tzfile:read): Use subbytes instead of subarray.
  * byte.scm (subbytes): Added.
  (subbytes-read!, subbytes-write): Renamed from substring-...

  * slib.texi (Irrational Real Functions)
  (Irrational Integer Functions): Sections added.
  * math-integer.scm, math-real.scm: Added SRFI-94.

  * slib.texi (Feature): Indexed number-system attribute features.
  * require.scm: Tightened number-system attribute features.

  * modular.scm (modular:characteristic, modular:+): Recoded so `-'
  has no more than 2 arguments.
  (mod, rem): Removed.
  (modular:characteristic): Renamed from modulus->integer.
  (modular:expt): Handle base = modulus - 1. Corrected documentation.

  * srfi-23.scm (error): Added.

  * simetrix.scm (SI:unit-infos): Updated u and eV to CODATA-2002.

  * peanosfc.scm (peano-coordinates->integer)
  (integer->peano-coordinates): Fixed; were broken for rank != 2.

  * subarray.scm (subarray): Handle reverse index ranges.

  * pnm.scm (pnm:array-write): Don't lose comments when recursing.

  * slib.spec (%files): Added man1/slib.1.gz.

  * grapheps.ps (sign): Cleaner than inline code.
  (setup-plot): Now handles decreasing axes.
  * grapheps.scm (plot): Handle list of lists data.

  * root.scm (integer-sqrt): Streamlined.
  (secant:find-root-1): Fixed internal argument mismatch
  for number-of-iterations case.

  * getopt.scm (*argv*): Removed (define *argv* *argv*).

  * solid.scm (solid:prism, solid:lumber): Added.

  * array.scm (make-shared-array): Work for rank-0 arrays.
  (equal?): Compare element-by-element of two arrays.
  (make-array): Return string or vector even if prototype is a
  strict array.
  (make-array): Return simple string or vector if possible.

  * strcase.scm (symbol-append): Work with case-sensitive or
  case-insensitive symbols.

  * Makefile (dvi, pdf): New tetex-3.0(-20.FC5) broke them -- fixed.
  (docs): Added target to make all documentation files and invoke xdvi.
  (texifiles): Added fdl.texi.
  (S48LIB): Renamed from LIB.
  (S48SLIB): Subdirectory of implementation-vicinity.
  (install48): Make $(S48SLIB) directory and files.

  * indexes.texi (Index): Removed "Full Table of Contents".
  * slib.texi (SRFI): Added @ftindex entries for SRFIs.
  Converted to @copying and GNU Free Documentation License.

  * mklibcat.scm: Change all slib files to `source'.

  * require.scm (catalog:get): Handle (home-vicinity) being false.
  (catalog:get): mklibcat is `source'.
  (require): Don't provide `new-catalog'.

  * *.init, Template.scm, require.scm (slib:features): Renamed from
  *features* to avoid conflict with Guile identifier.

  * vscm.init, umbscheme.init, Template.scm, t3.init, STk.init,
  scsh.init, scheme2c.init, RScheme.init, mitscheme.init,
  macscheme.init, jscheme.init, gambit.init, elk.init,
  DrScheme.init, chez.init, bigloo.init (slib:error): Capture
  `error' identifier (to survive redefinition).

  * elk.init (slib:error): Removed bad insertion.

  * bigloo.init (slib:features): Lacks object-hash.
  (slib:load): Fixed suffix lossage.
  (slib:features): Removed object->string and rationalize.

  * guile.init (char-code-limit): Reduced to workaround string
  ordering bug.
  (system, delete-file, open-file, make-array): Changed
  from define to set! to eliminate guile-1.8.0 warning:
  WARNING: (guile-user): imported module (ice-9 slib) overrides core binding
  (defined?, in-vicinity, port?, 1+, -1+, 1-): Removed
  definitions duplicating Guile defines.
  (*features*): Set, rather than define.
  (browse-url): Added.

  * scheme48.init: (slib:load-compiled): Loads a native SRFI module.
  Create "implcat" and new-catalog with native SRFI modules.
  (slib-primitives): Removed s48-modulo and s48-atan.

				-=-=-

SLIB is available from:
 http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib3a4.zip
 http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-3a4-1.noarch.rpm
 swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib3a4.zip
 swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-3a4-1.noarch.rpm

SLIB-PSD is a portable debugger for Scheme (requires emacs editor):
 http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-psd1-3.tar.gz
 swiss.csail.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-psd1-3.tar.gz

SCHELOG is an embedding of Prolog in Scheme+SLIB:
 http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/schelog/schelog.html

Programs for printing and viewing TexInfo documentation (which SLIB
has) come with GNU Emacs or can be obtained via ftp from:
 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.8.tar.gz