The Jim Interpreter

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 quote
• sqlite3 - 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 and list indexes now accept “safe” integer expressions
• loop can now omit the start value
• New xtrace command for execution trace support
• Add history keep
• Add support for lsearch -index and lsearch -stride, the latter per TIP 351
• lsort -index now supports multiple indices
• Add support for lsort -stride
• open now supports POSIX-style access arguments
• sdl 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)