The Jim Interpreter

Thursday, 22 December 2011

Jim Tcl version 0.73

ANNOUNCE: Jim Tcl version 0.73

Jim Tcl 0.73 has been released and is available from:

http://repo.or.cz/w/jimtcl.git or https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl

Find out all about Jim Tcl at http://jim.tcl.tk/

CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.72

This release incorporates bug fixes and many new features. A summary is below. See git for the full changelog.

Bugs fixed in version 0.73

• exec on cygwin now correctly passes $::env
• On mingw and cygwin, --shared creates libjim.dll rather than libjim.so
• UTF-8 case folding may change the encoded length
• Fix a regexp infinite loop on invalid UTF-8 strings
• Prevent infinite recursion in eval
• Don’t allow upvar to a higher level
• regexp counted matches may be wrong on subsequent use
• Form feed (\f) is a valid white space character
• Parsing bug for quoted orphan $
• Standard handles were not being kept open
• Fix edge cases with tailcall

Features added in version 0.73

• Added support for namespaces and the namespace command
• The “full” sqlite3 extension is included in the repo
• Built-in regexp now support non-capturing parentheses: (?:...)
• Added string replace and string totitle
• Added info statics to access proc static variables
• Added info alias to access the target of an alias
• Added build-jim-ext for easy separate building of loadable modules (extensions)
• local now works with any command, not just procs
• UTF-8 encoding past the basic multilingual plane (BMP) is supported
• Added tcl::prefix
• Added the history command to access command line editing and history from scripts
• Added a Tcl-compatible apply command
• Most extensions are now enabled by default
• Jim Tcl now compiles with MSVC on Windows (but no build support)

Steve Bennett (steveb@workware.net.au)