ats2-postiats-0.1.3:
This is the 12th 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 dot-notation overloading in assignments.
This feature is mostly for interacting ATS with other languages.
See ATS2TUTORIAL/CHAP_DOTOVERLD for a short article of explanation.
2. Adding support for functional style o dot-notation overloading.
This feature makes it very convenient for ATS to interact with OOP.
3. Generally improving level-2 jsonization (pats_dynexp2_jsonize)
4. Adding support for extvar decl. (which is different from $extval):
extval "external_name" = internal_value
5. ATS_DYNLOADFLAG is set to 1 by default only for DATS-files. So
dynloading SATS-files is no longer necessary (but it is still harmless).
6. Adding support for $extmcall(ret_type, obj, "method", arglst),
which translates into the method invocation: obj.method(arglst)
7. Adding -D_ATS_ARRAY_FIELD to safe-guard using array fields in records.