Recent user-visible changes to Tcl: 1. No more [command1] [command2] construct for grouping multiple commands on a single command line. 2. Semi-colon now available for grouping commands on a line. 3. For a command to span multiple lines, must now use backslash-return at the end of each line but the last. 4. "Var" command has been changed to "set". 5. Double-quotes now available as an argument grouping character. 6. "Return" may be used at top-level. 7. More backslash sequences available now. In particular, backslash-newline may be used to join lines in command files. 8. New or modified built-in commands: case, return, for, glob, info, print, return, set, source, string, uplevel. 9. After an error, the variable "errorInfo" is filled with a stack trace showing what was being executed when the error occurred. 10. Command abbreviations are accepted when parsing commands, but are not recommended except for purely-interactive commands. 11. $, set, and expr all complain now if a non-existent variable is referenced. 12. History facilities exist now. See Tcl.man and Tcl_RecordAndEval.man. 13. Changed to distinguish between empty variables and those that don't exist at all. Interfaces to Tcl_GetVar and Tcl_ParseVar have changed (NULL return value is now possible). *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 14. Changed meaning of "level" argument to "uplevel" command (1 now means "go up one level", not "go to level 1"; "#1" means "go to level 1"). *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 15. 3/19/90 Added "info exists" option to see if variable exists. 16. 3/19/90 Added "noAbbrev" variable to prohibit command abbreviations. 17. 3/19/90 Added extra errorInfo option to "error" command. 18. 3/21/90 Double-quotes now only affect space: command, variable, and backslash substitutions still occur inside double-quotes. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 19. 3/21/90 Added support for \r. 20. 3/21/90 List, concat, eval, and glob commands all expect at least one argument now. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 21. 3/22/90 Added "?:" operators to expressions. 22. 3/25/90 Fixed bug in Tcl_Result that caused memory to get trashed. ------------------- Released version 3.1 --------------------- 23. 3/29/90 Fixed bug that caused "file a.b/c ext" to return ".b/c". 24. 3/29/90 Semi-colon is not treated specially when enclosed in double-quotes. ------------------- Released version 3.2 --------------------- 25. 4/16/90 Rewrote "exec" not to use select or signals anymore. Should be more Sys-V compatible, and no slower in the normal case. 26. 4/18/90 Rewrote "glob" to eliminate GNU code (there's no GNU code left in Tcl, now), and added Tcl_TildeSubst procedure. Added automatic tilde-substitution in many commands, including "glob". ------------------- Released version 3.3 --------------------- 27. 7/11/90 Added "Tcl_AppendResult" procedure. 28. 7/20/90 "History" with no options now defaults to "history info" rather than to "history redo". Although this is a backward incompatibility, it should only be used interactively and thus shouldn't present any compatibility problems with scripts. 29. 7/20/90 Added "Tcl_GetInteger", "Tcl_GetDouble", and "Tcl_GetBoolean" procedures. 30. 7/22/90 Removed "Tcl_WatchInterp" procedure: doesn't seem to be necessary, since the same effect can be achieved with the deletion callbacks on individual commands. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 31. 7/23/90 Added variable tracing: Tcl_TraceVar, Tcl_UnTraceVar, and Tcl_VarTraceInfo procedures, "trace" command. 32. 8/9/90 Mailed out list of all bug fixes since 3.3 release. 33. 8/29/90 Fixed bugs in Tcl_Merge relating to backslashes and semi-colons. Mailed out patch. 34. 9/3/90 Fixed bug in tclBasic.c: quotes weren't quoting ]'s. Mailed out patch. 35. 9/19/90 Rewrote exec to always use files both for input and output to the process. The old pipe-based version didn't work if the exec'ed process forked a child and then exited: Tcl waited around for stdout to get closed, which didn't happen until the grandchild exited. 36. 11/5/90 ERR_IN_PROGRESS flag wasn't being cleared soon enough in Tcl_Eval, allowing error messages from different commands to pile up in $errorInfo. Fixed by re-arranging code in Tcl_Eval that re-initializes result and ERR_IN_PROGRESS flag. Didn't mail out patch: changes too complicated to describe. 37. 12/19/90 Added Tcl_VarEval procedure as a convenience for assembling and executing Tcl commands. 38. 1/29/91 Fixed core leak in Tcl_AddErrorInfo. Also changed procedure and Tcl_Eval so that first call to Tcl_AddErrorInfo need not come from Tcl_Eval. ----------------- Released version 5.0 with Tk ------------------ 39. 4/3/91 Removed change bars from manual entries, leaving only those that came after version 3.3 was released. 40. 5/17/91 Changed tests to conform to Mary Ann May-Pumphrey's approach. 41. 5/23/91 Massive revision to Tcl parser to simplify the implementation of string and floating-point support in expressions. Newlines inside [] are now treated as command separators rather than word separators (this makes newline treatment consistent throughout Tcl). *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 42. 5/23/91 Massive rewrite of expression code to support floating-point values and simple string comparisons. The C interfaces to expression routines have changed (Tcl_Expr is replaced by Tcl_ExprLong, Tcl_ExprDouble, etc.), but all old Tcl expression strings should be accepted by the new expression code. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 43. 5/23/91 Modified tclHistory.c to check for negative "keep" value. 44. 5/23/91 Modified Tcl_Backslash to handle backslash-newline. It now returns 0 to indicate that a backslash sequence should be replaced by no character at all. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 45. 5/29/91 Modified to use ANSI C function prototypes. Must set "USE_ANSI" switch when compiling to get prototypes. 46. 5/29/91 Completed test suite by providing tests for all of the built-in Tcl commands. 47. 5/29/91 Changed Tcl_Concat to eliminate leading and trailing white-space in each of the things it concatenates and to ignore elements that are empty or have only white space in them. This produces cleaner output from the "concat" command. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 48. 5/31/91 Changed "set" command and Tcl_SetVar procedure to return new value of variable. 49. 6/1/91 Added "while" and "cd" commands. 50. 6/1/91 Changed "exec" to delete the last character of program output if it is a newline. In most cases this makes it easier to process program-generated output. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 51. 6/1/91 Made sure that pointers are never used after freeing them. 52. 6/1/91 Fixed bug in TclWordEnd where it wasn't dealing with [] inside quotes correctly. 53. 6/8/91 Fixed exec.test to accept return values of either 1 or 255 from "false" command. 54. 7/6/91 Massive overhaul of variable management. Associative arrays now available, along with "unset" command (and Tcl_UnsetVar procedure). Variable traces have been completely reworked: interfaces different both from Tcl and C, and multiple traces may exist on same variable. Can no longer redefine existing local variable to be global. Calling sequences have changed slightly for Tcl_GetVar and Tcl_SetVar ("global" is now "flags"). Tcl_SetVar can fail and return a NULL result. New forms of variable-manipulation procedures: Tcl_GetVar2, Tcl_SetVar2, etc. Syntax of variable $-notation changed to support array indexing. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 55. 7/6/91 Added new list-manipulation procedures: Tcl_ScanElement, Tcl_ConvertElement, Tcl_AppendElement. 56. 7/12/91 Created new procedure Tcl_EvalFile, which does most of the work of the "source" command. 57. 7/20/91 Major reworking of "exec" command to allow pipelines, more redirection, background. Added new procedures Tcl_Fork, Tcl_WaitPids, Tcl_DetachPids, and Tcl_CreatePipeline. The old "< input" notation has been replaced by "<< input" ("<" is for redirection from a file). Also handles error returns and abnormal terminations (e.g. signals) differently. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 58. 7/21/91 Added "append" and "lappend" commands. 59. 7/22/91 Reworked error messages and manual entries to use ?x? as the notation for an optional argument x, instead of [x]. The bracket notation was often confused with the use of brackets for command substitution. Also modified error messages to be more consistent. 60. 7/23/91 Tcl_DeleteCommand now returns an indication of whether or not the command actually existed, and the "rename" command uses this information to return an error if an attempt is made to delete a non-existent command. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 61. 7/25/91 Added new "errorCode" mechanism, along with procedures Tcl_SetErrorCode, Tcl_UnixError, and Tcl_ResetResult. Renamed Tcl_Return to Tcl_SetResult, but left a #define for Tcl_Return to avoid compatibility problems. 62. 7/26/91 Extended "case" command with alternate syntax where all patterns and commands are together in a single list argument: makes it easier to write multi-line case statements. 63. 7/27/91 Changed "print" command to perform tilde-substitution on the file name. 64. 7/27/91 Added "tolower", "toupper", "trim", "trimleft", and "trimright" options to "string" command. 65. 7/29/91 Added "atime", "mtime", "size", and "stat" options to "file" command. 66. 8/1/91 Added "split" and "join" commands. 67. 8/11/91 Added commands for file I/O, including "open", "close", "read", "gets", "puts", "flush", "eof", "seek", and "tell". 68. 8/14/91 Switched to use a hash table for command lookups. Command abbreviations no longer have direct support in the Tcl interpreter, but it should be possible to simulate them with the auto-load features described below. The "noAbbrev" variable is no longer used by Tcl. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 68.5 8/15/91 Added support for "unknown" command, which can be used to complete abbreviations, auto-load library files, auto-exec shell commands, etc. 69. 8/15/91 Added -nocomplain switch to "glob" command. 70. 8/20/91 Added "info library" option and TCL_LIBRARY #define. Also added "info script" option. 71. 8/20/91 Changed "file" command to take "option" argument as first argument (before file name), for consistency with other Tcl commands. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 72. 8/20/91 Changed format of information in $errorInfo variable: comments such as ("while" body line 1) are now on separate lines from commands being executed. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 73. 8/20/91 Changed Tcl_AppendResult so that it (eventually) frees large buffers that it allocates. 74. 8/21/91 Added "linsert", "lreplace", "lsearch", and "lsort" commands. 75. 8/28/91 Added "incr" and "exit" commands. 76. 8/30/91 Added "regexp" and "regsub" commands. 77. 9/4/91 Changed "dynamic" field in interpreters to "freeProc" (procedure address). This allows for alternative storage managers. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 78. 9/6/91 Added "index", "length", and "range" options to "string" command. Added "lindex", "llength", and "lrange" commands. 79. 9/8/91 Removed "index", "length", "print" and "range" commands. "Print" is redundant with "puts", but less general, and the other commands are replaced with the new commands described in change 78 above. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 80. 9/8/91 Changed history revision to occur even when history command is nested; needed in order to allow "history" to be invoked from "unknown" procedure. 81. 9/13/91 Changed "panic" not to use vfprintf (it's uglier and less general now, but makes it easier to run Tcl on systems that don't have vfprintf). Also changed "strerror" not to redeclare sys_errlist. 82. 9/19/91 Lots of changes to improve portability to different UNIX systems, including addition of "config" script to adapt Tcl to the configuration of the system it's being compiled on. 83. 9/22/91 Added "pwd" command. 84. 9/22/91 Renamed manual pages so that their filenames are no more than 14 characters in length, moved to "doc" subdirectory. 85. 9/24/91 Redid manual entries so they contain the supplemental macros that they need; can just print with "troff -man" or "man" now. 86. 9/26/91 Created initial version of script library, including a version of "unknown" that does auto-loading, auto-execution, and abbreviation expansion. This library is used by tclTest automatically. See the "library" manual entry for details. ----------------- Released version 6.0, 9/26/91 ------------------ 87. 9/30/91 Made "string tolower" and "string toupper" check case before converting: on some systems, "tolower" and "toupper" assume that character already has particular case. 88. 9/30/91 Fixed bug in Tcl_SetResult: wasn't always setting freeProc correctly when called with NULL value. This tended to cause memory allocation errors later. 89. 10/3/91 Added "upvar" command. 90. 10/4/91 Changed "format" so that internally it converts %D to %ld, %U to %lu, %O to %lo, and %F to %f. This eliminates some compatibility problems on some machines without affecting behavior. 91. 10/10/91 Fixed bug in "regsub" that caused core dumps with the -all option when the last match wasn't at the end of the string. 92. 10/17/91 Fixed problems with backslash sequences: \r support was incomplete and \f and \v weren't supported at all. 93. 10/24/91 Added Tcl_InitHistory procedure. 94. 10/24/91 Changed "regexp" to store "-1 -1" in subMatchVars that don't match, rather than returning an error. 95. 10/27/91 Modified "regexp" to return actual strings in matchVar and subMatchVars instead of indices. Added "-indices" switch to cause indices to be returned. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 96. 10/27/91 Fixed bug in "scan" where it used hardwired constants for sizes of floats and doubles instead of using "sizeof". 97. 10/31/91 Fixed bug in tclParse.c where parse-related error messages weren't being storage-managed correctly, causing spurious free's. 98. 10/31/91 Form feed and vertical tab characters are now considered to be space characters by the parser. 99. 10/31/91 Added TCL_LEAVE_ERR_MSG flag to procedures like Tcl_SetVar. 100. 11/7/91 Fixed bug in "case" where "in" argument couldn't be omitted if all case branches were embedded in a single list. 101. 11/7/91 Switched to use "pid_t" and "uid_t" and other official POSIC types and function prototypes. ----------------- Released version 6.1, 11/7/91 ------------------ 102. 12/2/91 Modified Tcl_ScanElement and Tcl_ConvertElement in several ways. First, allowed caller to request that only backslashes be used (no braces). Second, made Tcl_ConvertElement more aggressive in using backslashes for braces and quotes. 103. 12/5/91 Added "type", "lstat", and "readlink" options to "file" command, plus added new "type" element to output of "stat" and "lstat" options. 104. 12/10/91 Manual entries had first lines that caused "man" program to try weird preprocessor. Added blank comment lines to fix problem. 105. 12/16/91 Fixed a few bugs in auto_mkindex proc: wasn't handling errors properly, and hadn't been upgraded for new "regexp" syntax. 106. 1/2/92 Fixed bug in "file" command where it didn't properly handle a file names containing tildes where the indicated user doesn't exist. 107. 1/2/92 Fixed lots of cases in tclUnixStr.c where two different errno symbols (e.g. EWOULDBLOCK and EAGAIN) have the same number; Tcl will only use one of them. 108. 1/2/92 Lots of changes to configuration script to handle many more systems more gracefully. E.g. should now detect the bogus strtoul that comes with AIX and substitute Tcl's own version instead. ----------------- Released version 6.2, 1/10/92 ------------------ 109. 1/20/92 Config didn't have code to actually use "uid_t" variable to set TCL_UIT_T #define. 110. 2/10/92 Tcl_Eval didn't properly reset "numLevels" variable when too-deep recursion occurred. 111. 2/29/92 Added "on" and "off" to keywords accepted by Tcl_GetBoolean. 112. 3/19/92 Config wasn't installing default version of strtod.c for systems that don't have one in libc.a. 113. 3/23/92 Fixed bug in tclExpr.c where numbers with leading "."s, like 0.75, couldn't be properly substituted into expressions with variable or command substitution. 114. 3/25/92 Fixed bug in tclUnixAZ.c where "gets" command wasn't checking to make sure that it was able to write the variable OK. 115. 4/16/92 Fixed bug in tclUnixAZ.c where "read" command didn't compute file size right for device files. 116. 4/23/92 Fixed but in tclCmdMZ.c where "trace vinfo" was overwriting the trace command. ----------------- Released version 6.3, 5/1/92 ------------------ 117. 5/1/92 Added Tcl_GlobalEval. 118. 6/1/92 Changed auto-load facility to source files at global level. 119. 6/8/92 Tcl_ParseVar wasn't always setting termPtr after errors, which sometimes caused core dumps. 120. 6/21/92 Fixed bug in initialization of regexp pattern cache. This bug caused segmentation violations in regexp commands under some conditions. 121. 6/22/92 Changed implementation of "glob" command to eliminate trailing slashes on directory names: they confuse some systems. There shouldn't be any user-visible changes in functionality except for names in error messages not having trailing slashes. 122. 7/2/92 Fixed bug that caused 'string match ** ""' to return 0. 123. 7/2/92 Fixed bug in Tcl_CreateCmdBuf where it wasn't initializing the buffer to an empty string. 124. 7/6/92 Fixed bug in "case" command where it used NULL pattern string after errors in the "default" clause. 125. 7/25/92 Speeded up auto_load procedure: don't reread all the index files unless the path has changed. 126. 8/3/92 Changed tclUnix.h to define MAXPATHLEN from PATH_MAX, not _POSIX_PATH_MAX. ----------------- Released version 6.4, 8/7/92 ------------------ 127. 8/10/92 Changed tclBasic.c so that comment lines can be continued by putting a backslash before the newline. 128. 8/21/92 Modified "unknown" to allow the source-ing of a file for an auto-load to trigger other nested auto-loads, as long as there isn't any recursion on the same command name. 129. 8/25/92 Modified "format" command to allow " " and "+" flags, and allow flags in any order. 130. 9/14/92 Modified Tcl_ParseVar so that it doesn't actually attempt to look up the variable if "noEval" mode is in effect in the interpreter (it just parses the name). This avoids the errors that used to occur in statements like "expr {[info exists foo] && $foo}". 131. 9/14/92 Fixed bug in "uplevel" command where it didn't output the correct error message if a level was specified but no command. 132. 9/14/92 Renamed manual entries to have extensions like .3 and .n, and added "install" target to Makefile. 133. 9/18/92 Modified "unknown" command to emulate !!, !, and ^^ csh history substitutions. 134. 9/21/92 Made the config script cleverer about figuring out which switches to pass to "nm". 135. 9/23/92 Fixed tclVar.c to be sure to copy flags when growing variables. Used to forget about traces in progress and make extra recursive calls on trace procs. 136. 9/28/92 Fixed bug in auto_reset where it was unsetting variables that might not exist. 137. 10/7/92 Changed "parray" library procedure to print any array accessible to caller, local or global. 138. 10/15/92 Fixed bug where propagation of new environment variable values among interpreters took N! time if there exist N interpreters. 139. 10/16/92 Changed auto_reset procedure so that it also deletes any existing procedures that are in the auto_load index (the assumption is that they should be re-loaded to get the latest versions). 140. 10/21/92 Fixed bug that caused lists to be incorrectly generated for elements that contained backslash-newline sequences. 141. 12/9/92 Added support for TCL_LIBRARY environment variable: use it as library location if it's present. 142. 12/9/92 Added "info complete" command, Tcl_CommandComplete procedure. 143. 12/16/92 Changed the Makefile to check to make sure "config" has been run (can't run config directly from the Makefile because it modifies the Makefile; thus make has to be run again after running config). ----------------- Released version 6.5, 12/17/92 ------------------ 144. 12/21/92 Changed config to look in several places for libc file. 145. 12/23/92 Added "elseif" support to if. Also, "then", "else", and "elseif" may no longer be abbreviated. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 146. 12/28/92 Changed "puts" and "read" to support initial "-nonewline" switch instead of additional "nonewline" argument. The old form is still supported, but it is discouraged and is no longer documented. Also changed "puts" to make the file argument default to stdout: e.g. "puts foo" will print foo on standard output. 147. 1/6/93 Fixed bug whereby backslash-newline wasn't working when typed interactively, or in "info complete". 148. 1/22/93 Fixed bugs in "lreplace" and "linsert" where close quotes were being lost from last element before replacement or insertion. 149. 1/29/93 Fixed bug in Tcl_AssembleCmd where it wasn't requiring a newline at the end of a line before considering a command to be complete. The bug caused some very long lines in script files to be processed as multiple separate commands. 150. 1/29/93 Various changes in Makefile to add more configuration options, simplify installation, fix bugs (e.g. don't use -f switch for cp), etc. 151. 1/29/93 Changed "name1" and "name2" identifiers to "part1" and "part2" to avoid name conflicts with stupid C++ implementations that use "name1" and "name2" in a reserved way. 152. 2/1/93 Added "putenv" procedure to replace the standard system version so that it will work correctly with Tcl's environment handling. ----------------- Released version 6.6, 2/5/93 ------------------ 153. 2/10/93 Fixed bugs in config script: missing "endif" in libc loop, and tried to use strncasecmp.c instead of strcasecmp.c. 154. 2/10/93 Makefile improvements: added RANLIB variable for easier Sys-V configuration, added SHELL variable for SGI systems. ----------------- Released version 6.7, 2/11/93 ------------------ 153. 2/6/93 Changes in backslash processing: - \Cx, \Mx, \CMx, \e sequences no longer special - \ also eats up any space after the newline, replacing the whole sequence with a single space character - Hex sequences like \x24 are now supported, along with ANSI C's \a. - "format" no longer does backslash processing on its format string - there is no longer any special meaning to a 0 return value from Tcl_Backslash - unknown backslash sequences, like (e.g. \*), are replaced with the following character (e.g. *), instead of just treating the backslash as an ordinary character. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 154. 2/6/93 Updated all copyright notices. The meaning hasn't changed at all but the wording does a better job of protecting U.C. from liability (according to U.C. lawyers, anyway). 155. 2/6/93 Changed "regsub" so that it overwrites the result variable in all cases, even if there is no match. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 156. 2/8/93 Added support for XPG3 %n$ conversion specifiers to "format" command. 157. 2/17/93 Fixed bug in Tcl_Eval where errors due to infinite recursion could result in core dumps. 158. 2/17/93 Improved the auto-load mechanism to deal gracefully (i.e. return an error) with a situation where a library file that supposedly defines a procedure doesn't actually define it. 159. 2/17/93 Renamed Tcl_UnixError procedure to Tcl_PosixError, and changed errorCode variable usage to use POSIX as keyword instead of UNIX. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 160. 2/19/93 Changes to exec and process control: - Added support for >>, >&, >>&, |&, <@, >@, and >&@ forms of redirection. - When exec puts processes into background, it returns a list of their pids as result. - Added support for file, etc. (i.e. no space between ">" and file name. - Added -keepnewline option. - Deleted Tcl_Fork and Tcl_WaitPids procedures (just use fork and waitpid instead). - Added waitpid compatibility procedure for systems that don't have it. - Added Tcl_ReapDetachedProcs procedure. - Changed "exec" to return an error if there is stderr output, even if the command returns a 0 exit status (it's always been documented this way, but the implementation wasn't correct). - If a process returns a non-zero exit status but doesn't generate any diagnostic output, then Tcl generates an error message for it. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 161. 2/25/93 Fixed two memory-management problems having to do with managing the old result during variable trace callbacks. 162. 3/1/93 Added dynamic string library: Tcl_DStringInit, Tcl_DStringAppend, Tcl_DStringFree, Tcl_DStringResult, etc. 163. 3/1/93 Modified glob command to only return the names of files that exist, and to only return names ending in "/" if the file is a directory. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 164. 3/19/93 Modified not to use system calls like "read" directly, but instead to use special Tcl procedures that retry automatically if interrupted by signals. 165. 4/3/93 Eliminated "noSep" argument to Tcl_AppendElement, plus TCL_NO_SPACE flag for Tcl_SetVar and Tcl_SetVar2. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 166. 4/3/93 Eliminated "flags" and "termPtr" arguments to Tcl_Eval. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 167. 4/3/93 Changes to expressions: - The "expr" command now accepts multiple arguments, which are concatenated together with space separators. - Integers aren't automatically promoted to floating-point if they overflow the word size: errors are generated instead. - Tcl can now handle "NaN" and other special values if the underlying library procedures handle them. - When printing floating-point numbers, Tcl ensures that there is a "." or "e" in the number, so it can't be treated as an integer accidentally. The procedure Tcl_PrintDouble is available to provide this function in other contexts. Also, the variable "tcl_precision" can be used to set the precision for printing (must be a decimal number giving digits of precision). - Expressions now support transcendental and other functions, e.g. sin, acos, hypot, ceil, and round. Can add new math functions with Tcl_CreateMathFunc(). - Boolean expressions can now have any of the string values accepted by Tcl_GetBoolean, such as "yes" or "no". *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 168. 4/5/93 Changed Tcl_UnsetVar and Tcl_UnsetVar2 to return TCL_OK or TCL_ERROR instead of 0 or -1. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 169. 4/5/93 Eliminated Tcl_CmdBuf structure and associated procedures; can use Tcl_DStrings instead. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 170. 4/8/93 Changed interface to Tcl_TildeSubst to use a dynamic string for buffer space. This makes the procedure re-entrant and thread-safe, whereas it wasn't before. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 171. 4/14/93 Eliminated tclHash.h, and moved everything from it to tcl.h *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 172. 4/15/93 Eliminated Tcl_InitHistory, made "history" command always be part of interpreter. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 173. 4/16/93 Modified "file" command so that "readable" option always exists, even on machines that don't support symbolic links (always returns same error as if the file wasn't a symbolic link). 174. 4/26/93 Fixed bugs in "regsub" where ^ patterns didn't get handled right (pretended not to match when it really did, and looped infinitely if -all was specified). 175. 4/29/93 Various improvements in the handling of variables: - Can create variables and array elements during a read trace. - Can delete variables during traces (note: unset traces will be invoked when this happens). - Can upvar to array elements. - Can retarget an upvar to another variable by re-issuing the upvar command with a different "other" variable. 176. 5/3/93 Added Tcl_GetCommandInfo, which returns info about a Tcl command such as whether it exists and its ClientData. Also added Tcl_SetCommandInfo, which allows any of this information to be modified and also allows a command's delete procedure to have a different ClientData value than its command procedure. 177. 5/5/93 Added Tcl_RegExpMatch procedure. 178. 5/6/93 Fixed bug in "scan" where it didn't properly handle %% conversion specifiers. Also changed "scan" to use Tcl_PrintDouble for printing real values. 179. 5/7/93 Added "-exact", "-glob", and "-regexp" options to "lsearch" command to allow different kinds of pattern matching. 180. 5/7/93 Added many new switches to "lsort" to control the sorting process: "-ascii", "-integer", "-real", "-command", "-increasing", and "-decreasing". 181. 5/10/93 Changes to file I/O: - Modified "open" command to support a list of POSIX access flags like {WRONLY CREAT TRUNC} in addition to current fopen-style access modes. Also added "permissions" argument to set permissions of newly-created files. - Fixed Scott Bolte's bug (can close stdin etc. in application and then re-open them with Tcl commands). - Exported access to Tcl's file table with new procedures Tcl_EnterFile and Tcl_GetOpenFile. 182. 5/15/93 Added new "pid" command, which can be used to retrieve either the current process id or a list of the process ids in a pipeline opened with "open |..." 183. 6/3/93 Changed to use GNU autoconfig for configuration instead of the home-brew "config" script. Also made many other configuration-related changes, such as using instead of explicitly declaring system calls in tclUnix.h. 184. 6/4/93 Fixed bug where core-dumps could occur if a procedure redefined itself (the memory for the procedure's body could get reallocated in the middle of evaluating the body); implemented simple reference count mechanism. 185. 6/5/93 Changed tclIndex file format in two ways: (a) it's now eval-ed instead of parsed, which makes it 3-4x faster; (b) the entries in auto_index are now commands to evaluate, which allows commands to be loaded in different ways such as dynamic-loading of C code. The old tclIndex file format is still supported. 186. 6/7/93 Eliminated tclTest program, added new "tclsh" program that is more like wish (allows script files to be invoked automatically using "#!/usr/local/bin/tclsh", makes arguments available to script, etc.). Added support for Tcl_AppInit plus default version; this allows new Tcl applications to be created without modifying the main program for tclsh. 187. 6/7/93 Fixed bug in TclWordEnd that kept backslash-newline from working correctly in some cases during interactive input. 188. 6/9/93 Added Tcl_LinkVar and related procedures, which automatically keep a Tcl variable in sync with a C variable. 189. 6/16/93 Increased maximum nesting depth from 100 to 1000. 190. 6/16/93 Modified "trace var" command so that error messages from within traces are returned properly as the result of the variable access, instead of the generic "access disallowed by trace command" message. 191. 6/16/93 Added Tcl_CallWhenDeleted to provide callbacks when an interpreter is deleted (same functionality as Tcl_WatchInterp, which used to exist in versions before 6.0). 193. 6/16/93 Added "-code" argument to "return" command; it's there primarily for completeness, so that procedures implementing control constructs can reflect exceptional conditions back to their callers. 194. 6/16/93 Split up Tcl.n to make separate manual entries for each Tcl command. Tcl.n now contains a summary of the language syntax. 195. 6/17/93 Added new "switch" command to replace "case": allows alternate forms of pattern matching (exact, glob, regexp), replaces pattern lists with single patterns (but you can use "-" bodies to share one body among several patterns), eliminates "in" noise word. "Case" command is now obsolete. 196. 6/17/93 Changed the "exec", "glob", "regexp", and "regsub" commands to include a "--" switch. All initial arguments starting with "-" are now treated as switches unless a "--" switch is present to end the list. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 197. 6/17/93 Changed auto-exec so that the subprocess gets stdin, stdout, and stderr from the parent. This allows truly interactive sub-processes (e.g. vi) to be auto-exec'ed from a tcl shell command line. 198. 6/18/93 Added patchlevel.h, for use in coordinating future patch releases, and also added "info patchlevel" command to make the patch level available to Tcl scripts. 199. 6/19/93 Modified "glob" command so that a leading "//" in a name gets left as is (this is needed for systems like Apollos where "//" is the super-root; Tcl used to collapse the two slashes into a single slash). 200. 7/7/93 Added Tcl_SetRecursionLimit procedure so that the maximum allowable nesting depth can be controlled for an interpreter from C. ----------------- Released version 7.0 Beta 1, 7/9/93 ------------------ 201. 7/12/93 Modified Tcl_GetInt and tclExpr.c so that full-precision unsigned integers can be specified without overflow errors. 202. 7/12/93 Configuration changes: eliminate leading blank line in configure script; provide separate targets in Makefile for installing binary and non-binary information; check for size_t and a few other potentially missing typedefs; don't put tclAppInit.o into libtcl.a; better checks for matherr support. 203. 7/14/93 Changed tclExpr.c to check the termination pointer before errno after strtod calls, to avoid problems with some versions of strtod that set errno in unexpected ways. 204. 7/16/93 Changed "scan" command to be more ANSI-conformant: eliminated %F, %D, etc., added code to ignore "l", "h", and "L" modifiers but always convert %e, %f, and %g with implicit "l"; also added support for %u and %i. Also changed "format" command to eliminate %D, %U, %O, and add %i. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 205. 7/17/93 Changed "uplevel" and "upvar" so that they can be used from global level to global level: this used to generate an error. 206. 7/19/93 Renamed "setenv", "putenv", and "unsetenv" procedures to avoid conflicts with system procedures with the same names. If you want Tcl's procedures to override the system procedures, do it in the Makefile (instructions are in the Makefile). *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** ----------------- Released version 7.0 Beta 2, 7/21/93 ------------------ 207. 7/21/93 Fixed bug in tclVar.c where freed memory was accidentally used if a procedure returned an element of a local array. 208. 7/22/93 Fixed bug in "unknown" where it didn't properly handle errors occurring in the "auto_load" procedure, leaving its state inconsistent. 209. 7/23/93 Changed exec's ">2" redirection operator to "2>" for consistency with sh. This is incompatible with earlier beta releases of 7.0 but not with pre-7.0 releases, which didn't support either operator. 210. 7/28/93 Changed backslash-newline handling so that the resulting space character *is* treated as a word separator unless the backslash sequence is in quotes or braces. This is incompatible with 7.0b1 and 7.0b2 but is more compatible with pre-7.0 versions that the b1 and b2 releases were. 211. 7/28/93 Eliminated Tcl_LinkedVarWritable, added TCL_LINK_READ_ONLY to Tcl_LinkVar to accomplish same purpose. This change is incompatible with earlier beta releases, but not with releases before Tcl 7.0. 212. 7/29/93 Renamed regexp C functions so they won't clash with POSIX regexp functions that use the same name. 213. 8/3/93 Added "-errorinfo" and "-errorcode" options to "return" command: these allow for much better handling of the errorInfo and errorCode variables in some cases. 214. 8/12/93 Changed "expr" so that % always returns a remainder with the same sign as the divisor and absolute value smaller than the divisor. 215. 8/14/93 Turned off auto-exec in "unknown" unless the command was typed interactively. This means you must use "exec" when invoking subprocesses, unless it's a command that's typed interactively. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 216. 8/14/93 Added support for tcl_prompt1 and tcl_prompt2 variables to tclMain.c: makes prompts user-settable. 217. 8/14/93 Added asynchronous handlers (Tcl_AsyncCreate etc.) so that signals can be taken cleanly by Tcl applications. 218. 8/16/93 Moved information about open files from the interpreter structure to global variables so that a file can be opened in one interpreter and read or written in another. 219. 8/16/93 Removed ENV_FLAGS from Makefile, so that there's no official support for overriding setenv, unsetenv, and putenv. 220. 8/20/93 Various configuration improvements: coerce chars to unsigned chars before using macros like isspace; source ~/.tclshrc file during initialization if it exists and program is running interactively; allow there to be directories in auto_path that don't exist or don't have tclIndex files (ignore them); added Tcl_Init procedure and changed Tcl_AppInit to call it. 221. 8/21/93 Fixed bug in expr where "+", "-", and " " were all getting treated as integers with value 0. 222. 8/26/93 Added "tcl_interactive" variable to tclsh. 223. 8/27/93 Added procedure Tcl_FilePermissions to return whether a given file can be read or written or both. Modified Tcl_EnterFile to take a permissions mask rather than separate read and write arguments. 224. 8/28/93 Fixed performance bug in "glob" command (unnecessary call to "access" for each file caused a 5-10x slow-down for big directories). ----------------- Released version 7.0 Beta 3, 8/28/93 ------------------ 225. 9/9/93 Renamed regexp.h to tclRegexp.h to avoid conflicts with system include file by same name. 226. 9/9/93 Added Tcl_DontCallWhenDeleted. 227. 9/16/93 Changed not to call exit C procedure directly; instead always invoke "exit" Tcl command so that application can redefine the command to do additional cleanup. 228. 9/17/93 Changed auto-exec to handle names that contain slashes (i.e. don't use PATH for them). 229. 9/23/93 Fixed bug in "read" and "gets" commands where they didn't clear EOF conditions. ----------------- Released version 7.0, 9/29/93 ------------------ 230. 10/7/93 "Scan" command wasn't properly aligning things in memory, so segmentation faults could arise under some circumstances. 231. 10/7/93 Fixed bug in Tcl_ConvertElement where it forgot to backslash leading curly brace when creating lists. 232. 10/7/93 Eliminated dependency of tclMain.c on tclInt.h and tclUnix.h, so that people can copy the file out of the Tcl source directory to make modified private versions. 233. 10/8/93 Fixed bug in auto-loader that reversed the priority order of entries in auto_path for new-style index files. Now things are back to the way they were before 3.0: first in auto_path is always highest priority. 234. 10/13/93 Fixed bug where Tcl_CommandComplete didn't recognize comments and treat them as such. Thus if you typed the line # { interactively, Tcl would think that the command wasn't complete and wait for more input before evaluating the script. 235. 10/14/93 Fixed bug where "regsub" didn't set the output variable if the input string was empty. 236. 10/23/93 Fixed bug where Tcl_CreatePipeline didn't close off enough file descriptors in child processes, causing children not to exit properly in some cases. 237. 10/28/93 Changed "list" and "concat" commands not to generate errors if given zero arguments, but instead to just return an empty string. ----------------- Released version 7.1, 11/4/93 ------------------ Note: there is no 7.2 release. It was flawed and was thus withdrawn shortly after it was released. 238. 11/10/93 TclMain.c didn't compile on some systems because of R_OK in call to "access". Changed to eliminate call to "access". ----------------- Released version 7.3, 11/26/93 ------------------