ats2-postiats-0.0.7:


Date: March 30, 2014

This is the seventh 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. Supporting stack-allocated closures
2. Fixing errmsg for a non-template being treated as a template
3. Changing default funclo-kind from FUNCLOptr to FUNCLOref
4. Fixing level-4 errmsg handling
5. Fixing a bug in the handling of lte_cls_cls (see: bug-2014-03-12)
6. Supporting creation of aliases for namespaces:
   staload $UNSAFE // opening the namespace $UNSAFE
   staload UN = $UNSAFE // forming an alias for $UNSAFE
7. Supporting creation of local namespaces // to-be-explained
8. Supporting tcc-0.9.26 for compiling C code generated from ATS source