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@@ -1,107 +1,175 @@ -This message announces the availability of Scheme Library release slib3a3. +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 the Bigloo, Chez, DrScheme, ELK, GAMBIT, Jscheme, -MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, -SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM 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://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB_COPYING.txt). +(http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB_COPYING.txt). Documentation and distributions in several formats are linked from SLIB's home page: - http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html + http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html Links to distributions of SLIB and related softwares are at the end of this message. -=-=- -slib3a3 news: - -Multi-dimensional linear interpolation and resampling of arrays are -added. Case-folding of symbols is removed from SLIB. It should work -with implementations which are case-sensitive when reading symbols. - - * grapheps.scm (graph:plot): Plot multiple traces from array. - (functions->array): Generalizes graph:plot-function. - - * root.scm (integer-sqrt): Changed to algorithm attributed to - Bradley Lucier by Steve VanDevender. - * slib.texi (Root Finding): integer-sqrt changed to floor of sqrt. - - * linterp.scm (interpolate-array-ref, resample-array!): Added. - - * bytenumb.scm (bytes->ieee-float, bytes->ieee-double) - (ieee-float->bytes, ieee-double->bytes): Fixed for -0.0. - * bytenumb.scm (ieee-float->bytes, ieee-double->bytes): Handle 0/0 - in srfi-70 arithmetic. - - * guile.init (slib:load, slib:load-from-path): Adapted patch from - Thomas Bushnell BSG for loading into SLIB module. - * guile.init (home-vicinity): Check for getenv first. - (*features*): Fixed array, system, etc. - (system->line): Fixed return status (thanks to Rob Browning). - (guile:wrap-case-insensitive): Removed; sources now case clean. - * guile.init (system->line): Added features line-i/o and hash. - (implementation-vicinity): Fixed to parent directory of ice-9. - * guile.init (sub-vicinity): Downcased software-type symbols. - - * dirs.scm, transact.scm, batch.scm, prec.scm, - Template.scm, *.init: Downcased all software-type symbols. - * require.scm, mklibcat.scm, mkclrnam.scm, alistab.scm, Makefile: - Downcased *slib-version* symbol. - - * top-refs.scm (top-refs:expression): Check for lists before - walking CASE and COND clauses (srfi-61.scm macro broke it). - - * http-cgi.scm (query-alist->parameter-list): Fixed order of nary - fields. - * http-cgi.scm (http:status-line): Changed to HTTP-1.0; works - better in MS-Windows. - * db2html.scm (command:make-editable-table): Boolean "arity". - - * peanosfc.scm (peano-coordinates->natural) - (natural->peano-coordinates): Non-negative versions. - * phil-spc.scm (hilbert-coordinates->integer): nbits calculation - was missing (incorrectly used rank). - (bitwise-laminate, bitwise-delaminate): Removed unused functions. - - * slib.texi (SRFI): Added table mapping SRFI to feature. - (Scheme Syntax Extension Packages): Moved most SRFIs here. - * srfi.scm: Removed comments about copyright. - * mklibcat.scm (and-let*, receive, define-record-type) - (guarded-cond-clause): Added aliases for srfi-2, srfi-8, srfi-9, - and srfi-61. - * Makefile (srfiles): Most srfi-* moved from txiscms. - (srfiles): Added srfi-61. - - * slib.spec: Updated from RedHat version from Jindrich Novy. - * slib.spec (%post): Commented out install-info. - * slib.spec (install): Make slib executable. - * slib.spec: Fixed for rpmbuild version 4.3.1 - * Makefile (rpm): Program name changed to rpmbuild. - -From: Ivan Shmakov - * srfi-61.scm (cond): Added extension. +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://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib3a3.zip - http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-3a3-1.noarch.rpm - swissnet.ai.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib3a3.zip - swissnet.ai.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-3a3-1.noarch.rpm + 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://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-psd1-3.tar.gz - swissnet.ai.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-psd1-3.tar.gz + 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.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/packages/schelog/ + 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.gnu.org:pub/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.0.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.8.tar.gz |