ats2-postiats-0.1.1:


This is the tenth release of ATS2, the successor of the ATS
programming language. The compiler for ATS2 is given the name
ATS/Positats, ATS2/Postiats or simply Postiats.

The official website for ATS is:

http://www.ats-lang.org

ATS-Postiats is hosted at github:

https://github.com/githwxi/ATS-Postiats

Major releases of ATS2 are available at:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ats2-lang/

Major releases of external packages for ATS2 are available at:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ats2-lang-contrib/

Here is a list of major additions and changes since the last release:

1. Adding support for checking funarg-pattern exhaustiveness
2. Adding run-time support for handling funarg-pattern matching failure
3. Default namespace is assumed for staloadloc if none is given explicitly.
4. Stopping non-template constants from being implemented in the body of a
   function (during type-checking)
5. Improving/fixing libats/stringbuf
6. Supporting the compilation of list-patterns:
   val+ $list(x1, x2, x3) = $list_t{int}(1, 2, 3)
   val () = assertloc (x1 = 1 && x2 = 2 && x3 = 3)
   val+ $list(x1, x2, x3) = $list_vt{int}(1, 2, 3) // freed
   val () = assertloc (x1 = 1 && x2 = 2 && x3 = 3)
7. Improving/fixing libats/deqarray and libats/dynarray