The Jim Interpreter

Saturday, 31 October 2020

Jim Tcl version 0.80

ANNOUNCE: Jim Tcl version 0.80

Jim Tcl 0.80 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 0.79

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 0.80

• return -level 0 -code xxx now returns the correct result
• regexp - fix an issue with failed optional group
• oo - fix an issue when no class variables are given
• oo - fix super invocation with multiple inheritance levels
• tailcall - fix to avoid growing the C stack frame
• regsub -all with \A now works correctly
• scan - fix an issue with chars vs bytes in utf-8 mode
• aio - fix eventloop and eof for ssl connections
• lsearch -regexp - fix the case where the pattern begins with a dash
• lsearch -command - handle the case with too few args
• Disallow renaming a local proc with upcall to avoid inconsistent behaviour

Features and improvements added in version 0.80

• Dictionaries now preserve insertion order
• string map and string compare now support embedded nulls
• string match and other glob matches now support embedded nulls
• Variable and proc names now support embedded nulls
• Interactive mode now prints results containing embedded nulls
• Generate a build warning if system is non-Y2038 compliant
• package names added as an alias for package list
• file rootname, file dirname are now more consistent with Tcl
• aio - add Server Name Indication (SNI) ssl support
• aio - add socket pty support
• The 0d radix prefix is now supported for decimal (base 10)
• String comparison operators lt, gt, le and ge are now supported
• dict getwithdefault (and the alias dict getdef) are now supported
• Build has coverage support, and test coverage is now over 90%
• Performance improvements in a number of areas

Steve Bennett (steveb@workware.net.au)