Anouncing the (somewhat broken) E v0.7.1 release

Mark S. Miller markm@caplet.com
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:20:33 -0800


The good news:

* Starting to flesh out the E book draft (Thanks MarcS!)
	http://www.erights.org/doc/elang/e-book-toc.html
	with several draft chapters up ready for your attack ;)

* Agreed syntax for tuple and mapping expressions

* At no performance cost, ELib no longer breaks when run under jvm that
don't correctly intern literal strings.  Likewise, it's also tolerant of
being handed non-interned verbs.

* Initialization of cyclic data structures works great! (as documented in
the chapter "Defining Variables")

* Quasi-strings can now contain arbitrary nested expressions or patterns,
not just variable names.

* Lots and lots of minor improvements and bug fixes, like replacing
"containsKey" with "maps".



The bad news:

*  Pending figuring out cvs & other weirdness, the javadocs have
disappeared, as well as the *.zip files for downloading.  The *.gzip files
should still be available.  Because I couldn't get "cvs export" to work,
the download inappropriately contains lots of CVS subdirectories.


	Cheers,
	--MarkM