[Chicken-users] CHICKEN 4.1.0 released

[felix winkelmann]

Hello!


CHICKEN 4.1.0 has been released.

What's new:

- Many many bugfixes, in particularly to the module and syntax systems.
- The new parameter "parantheses-synonyms" and the command-line
  option "-no-parantheses-synonyms" allow disabling list-like behaviour
  of "{ ... }" and "[ ... ]" tokens
- The new parameter "symbol-escape" and the command-line
  option "-no-symbol-escape" allows disabling "| ... |" symbol escape
  syntax
- Added command-line option "-r5rs-syntax" to disable CHICKEN-specific
  read-syntax
- Removed "macro?" and "undefine-macro!"
- Support for Microsoft Visual Studio / MSVC has been dropped
- The compiler provides now a simple flow-analysis pass that does
  basic checking of argument-counts and -types for core library procedure
  calls (new option "-scrutinize")
- New compiler-options "-no-argc-checks", "-no-bound-checks",
  "-no-procedure checks", "-no-procedure-checks-for-usual-bindings",
  "-types TYPEFILE" and "-consult-inline-file FILENAME"
- Added a "chicken-setup" stub-application to catch incorrect use of
  this tool (which has been replaced in 4.0.0 with "chicken-install")
- Changed "setup-install-flag" and "setup-verbose-flag" to
  "setup-install-mode" and "setup-verbose-mode" in "setup-api" module,
  the old names are still available but deprecated
- Posix unit:
  added "socket?", "block-device?" and "character-device?", deprecated
  redundant "stat-..." procedures
- Added "directory-exists?"
- "(for-each (lambda ...) X)" is compiled more efficiently
- The argument-count check for format-strings for "[sf]printf" with a constant
  string argument is done at compile-time

The tarball can be downloaded here:

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/chicken-4.1.0.tar.gz

Thanks to all who helped making this release.


cheers,
felix