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                                    TXR 194
                                   2018-04-30


 Bugs

 - FFI:
   - issue causing inability to to encode the most negative signed
     32 bit integer on 32 bit platforms, and the 64 bit one on 64
     bit platforms.
 - compiler:
   - fixed situations when compiler generates immediate move instructions
     for integer operands that are too wide to be used as immdiate literals.
 - assembler:
   - fixed a situation in which a bignum integer was encoded as a literal
     using its bitwise pointer representation.



                                    TXR 193
                                   2018-04-26


  Features

  - compiler:
    - load-time special form, similar to load-time-value in ANSI CL.
      - evaluates an expression on file load whose value is treated as a
        literal object.
      - program doesn't have to define a top-level variable; load-time occurs
        anywhere in code.
    - code improvement in translation of
      - string quasiliterals
      - destructuring (tree bind, macro arguments, ...).
    - compiler now removes (block ...) constructs that look as if they are not
      needed.
  - vm:
    - big improvement in stack usage of running VM.
    - addressed some spurious retention issues.

  Bugs

  - autoload
    - fixed programs experiencing errors due to some library modules not
      loading.
      - caused by situations when the dependency from a library module A to B
        modules was keyed only to the macros provided by B, not B's run-time
        functions generated by the macros.
      - of course, compiled code doesn't refer to macros any more.
  - compiler:
    - fixed (return x) being mis-compiled as if it were (sys:abscond-from nil x).
  - awk: fixed multiple expansion of path/command argument in I/O redirection
    macros ->, ->>, <-, !> and <.



                                    TXR 192
                                   2018-04-19

  Features

  - compiler:
    - compiled files now marked with byte order indication
      - TXR compiled on big-endian will load compiled files made by TXR on a
        little-endian machine and vice-versa.
    - caseq/caseql/casequal optimized to table dispatch for characters and
      integers in dense range.
    - inline lambdas (lambdas that are immediately invoked) are now open-coded
      into let-based binding blocks.
  - parser:
    - Unterminated form errors now show the starting line number of the
      top-level form being read.
  - VM:
    - architectural change: display max depth reduced from 256 to 64 frames,
      but frames with maximum widened from 256 words to 1024 words.
    - object file major version bumped from 0 to 1:
      - compiled files from TXR 191 won't load.
  - lib/VM:
    - wasteful consing eliminated from apply function.
  - continuations:
    - documented differences in compiled vs intepreted behavior with respect to
      mutated lexicals.
    - new macros hlet and hlet* provided for binding lexical variables that are
      based in off-stack storage that isn't captured in continuations.

  Bugs

  - compiler:
    - fixed miscompilation of unwind-protect.
    - missing ((lambda ()) ...) call forms now handled
      - also optimized by open-coding.



                                    TXR 191
                                   2018-04-10


  Features

  - TXR Lisp now has a compiler and virtual machine.
    - individual forms and functions can be compiled
    - TXR Lisp .tl files can be compiled into .tlo object files
    - the Lisp parts of the library are now compiled.
      - TXR starts up some 3.5X faster when most of the
        library auto-loading is triggered.
  - Library:
    - new bignum-len function; get the "size" of a bignum efficiently.
    - ldiff function redesigned with more nuanced semantics.
  - Symbols/Packages:
    - package-prefix-interning now allowed in packages that have a
      fallback list.
    - application code is now read in a package called pub, not in
      the usr package.
    - usr package is devoid of spurious symbols; the Lisp library is
      read in the sys package.
  - Macros:
    - defmacro forms are no longer hackily evaluated at macro-expansion time:
      - evaluated normally, in apparent lexical env.
      - code which does things like:
        (progn (defmacro foo ...) (foo ...)).
        now requires (macro-time ...) around the defmacro.
    - optional parameters in macro-style parameter lists no longer support the
      colon hack for explicitly specifying a missing parameter.
      - only function calls have this feature now.
   - Printer:
     - improved line breaking of aggregate objects.
     - new function force-break exposed, related to this.

   Bugs

   - buffers: buf-get-* functions were not allowing the last byte of a buffer
     to be extracted.
   - structs: post-inits and finalization registrations are now correctly
     performed by reset-struct.
   - trace: several bugfixes in method redefinition check.
   - bignums: fixed broken single-digit bignum multiplication.
   - functions: fixed regression in function argument processing causing the
     failure to diagnose too many args.
   - expander: fixed neglect to add sequentially-bound variables to the
     expansion-time environment when they lack an init-form.
   - expander: fixed some neglected expansions in the sys:for-op special
     operator that implements the iteration forms like each and for.
   - expander: bugs/regressions in handling nil in parameter list expansion.
   - expander: optional parameters of functions were not being expanded in an
     environment in which the previous params are visible.
   - listener: fixed poor treatment of regex syntax in the code which prevent
     lines from being submitted when they
     are ill-formed.
   - gc bugs: fixed some incorrect mutations that break generational gc.
     - some in struct code
     - some in datagram socket code.
   - tagbody: fixed; was broken due to a regression.
   - packages: read/print consistency issue related to packgage prefixes fixed.
   - regex: read/print consistency problem related to double quote.
   - regex: double-free corruption bug related to use of canned
     character classes like \w.
   - hash: fixed broken with-hash-iter.



                                    TXR 190
                                   2018-02-18


  Features

  - Annoying limitation removed: lisp load now handles .txr files.

  - Listener:
    - new *listener-pprint-p* variable turns on use of pprint for
      evaluation results.
    - new *listener-greedy-eval-p* variable turns on a cascaded
      evaluation: values are subject to additional rounds of evaluation,
      whose results are also printed.


  Bugs

  - fixed bug "unbound function sys:l1-val" when using lop operator.
  - fixed expander bug causing (do set [@1 x] y) to be wrongly expanded.
  - autoload bugfix: symbols used for struct slots in standard library modules
    are now interned even if those modules are not loaded, so that they are
    treated properly under the package system.



                                    TXR 189
                                   2018-02-06


  Features

  - read an iread no longer record source code location info
    unconditionally
    - now controlled by new *rec-source-loc* special variable.

  - OOP:
    - better abstract sequence support:
       - new: special methods rplaca and rplacd.
       - sub and replace function now redirect to lambda and
         lambda set methods.
       - car and cdr fall back on lambda method now if
         object has no car or cdr method.
       - refset defined for objects that have car method.

  Bugs

  - Fixed regression in read-print consistency of hash tables.
  - Fixed bug in sequence classification logic that caused
    objects to be reported as non-sequences.
  - Fixed nthcdr continuing to iterate up to n even after
    end of list reached.
  - Fixed neglected autoload registration for socket functions.
  - Fixed bug in source location recording, causing errors in
    code to be rported against incorrect file names and line
    numbers.



                                    TXR 188
                                   2017-12-19


  Features

  - New funtion grade
    - like grade up/down operators in APL.
    - returns indices into sequence in sorted order.
  - New macro feature: lexical macros can decline expansion.
    - lexical macro can decline to expand by returning original form.
    - lexical scope is searched outwards to find and try another macro.
  - Big hash change:
    - hash function now defauilts to :equal-based.
    - :eql-based keyword specifies hashing based on eql.
    - functions which take hash arguments follow suit: group-by, etc.
  - Streams new feature: structure delegate streams
    - OOP interface for creating objects that substitute into
      stream I/O operations.
    - stream-wrap base implementation for easily wrapping and
      adapting streams.
  - New functions rlist and rlist*: express discontinuous ranges easily.

  Bugs

  - append* and mappend*:
    - fixed unintentional, undocumented destructive behavior
    - fixed non-termination on infinite lists.
  - tail function now handles improper lists.
  - macro expansion bug fixed:
    - neglect to expand the output of a declined macro
    - must be treated as a function call or possibly a special operator
      - either way, may have constituent expressions that
        need expansion
  - prof: deal with overflowing performance counters.
    - we use a 64 bit type if we have it, and convert to bignum
      if and when required.
  - trace: fixed spurious "previously traced" warning on methods.



                                    TXR 187
                                   2017-11-18


  Features

  - Functional library:
    - lop:
      - "left op": new variant of op macro.
      - inserts free arguments on left rather than right.
  - Control flow library:
    - caseq, caseql and caseql expand to better code.
  - Sequences library:
    - find, find-if, find-max, pos, pos-if, pos-max, posq, posql, posqual,
      rfind, rfind-if, rpos, rpos-if, rposq, rposql and rposqual:
      - rewritten with optimization for vectors and strings and proper support
        for vector-like struct objects.
  - Awk macro:
    - five new range operators
    - some optimizations
  - FFI/buffers/carray:
    - carray indexing handles negative indices now according to usual vector
      convention.
    - New convenience functions for I/O between files/streams and buffers.
  - Build:
    - improved handling of test targets in Makefile
    - in condensed mode ("CC file.o" output) if the build step fails, the
      failed command is printed in detail.
  - Windows port:
    - Cygnal DLL updated to Cygwin 2.9.0 baseline from 2.5.2.
  - Vim:
    - % is correctly considered a symbol constituent.

  Bugs

  - partition, partition*, split and split* handle infinite lazy
    lists of indices; issues in their < TXR-171 compatibility
    have been addressed.
  - tprint function and -t command line option deal with lazy lists
    in constant memory now.
  - completely broken copy-hash fixed.
  - Awk macro: fixed hygiene problem in expansion.
  - carray: stability: missing type checks added in several functions.
  - open-command now accepts "b" mode flag even on POSIX platforms whose
    popen function rejects it with a failure.




                                    TXR 186
                                   2017-09-16


  Features

  - math:
    - new cum-inv-norm function for calculating inverse of
      the normal distribution.
    - new poly and rpoly functions for evaluation of single-variable
      polynomials, given coefficients and domain value.
  - macros:
    - new macroexpand-lisp1 and macroexpand-1-lisp1 functions
      for expanding forms in an assumed Lisp-1 style evaluation
      context.
  - regex:
    - new regex-prefix-match function
      - determines whether string is a prefix of a possible match,
        even if it is not itself a match.
    - optimizations implemented to reduce NFA graph size.
    - printed representation of regexes based on original
      source code, not AST-optimized version.
  - command line:
    - txr -i <file> now goes to REPL even if loading <file> throws
      exception.
  - listener:
    - Visual feedback is now given when Enter is pressed at
      the end of a line that is not accepted due to unbalanced syntax.

  Bugs

  - listener:
    - Enter pressed in Ctrl-X context now correctly leaves
      Ctrl-X context (in situations when line is incomplete
      and not submitted).
  - Lisp syntax:
    - precedence of range .. now lower than referencing dot,
      so a.b .. c.d parses in intuitive way.
  - regex:
    - fixed incorrect printing of | relative to catenation
      - e.g. #/abc(def|ghi)/ was printing as #/abcdef|ghi/
      - recent regression
  - syntactic places:
    - if form [m ...] is used as a place, m is now correctly
      macro-expanded in a Lisp-1 context.



                                    TXR 185
                                   2017-08-30


  Features

  - The op/do macro implementation has been rewritten
    in Lisp:
    - Substitution of the @1 notation to anonymous lambda
      argument terms now leverages local macros, so that
      it follows a correct code walk.
    - Will not get stuck in an infinite loop if quoted
      literals occur that contain circular structure.
  - Meta expressions like @foo and @(bar) can now be used
    in the dot position of a function call
    - Example:
      (macrolet ((sys:expr (x) ^(quote ,x)))
        (list . @(a b c)))
      -> (a b c)
    - related to the op rewrite, which relies on it
      to preserve the behavior of forms like (op fun . @1)
      previously implemented in op itself.

  Bugs

  - Fixed a five-and-half year old bug in replace-str,
    introduced between TXR 54 and 55. This affects other
    operations such as (append "str1" "str2").



                                    TXR 184
                                   2017-08-23


  Features

  - TXR ported to 64 bit ARM8 ("aarch64").
  - out-of-memory handling revised:
    - throws exception rather than aborting.
    - code for this was very old and long neglected.
  - lib:
    - set-diff is called diff now; old name deprecated
    - isec and uni functions provide intersection and union.
      - names harmonize with hash-diff, hash-isec and hash-uni
    - len synonym for length
    - spl and tok functions: variants on tok-str and split-str,
      with argument order more suitable for currying.
  - math:
    - new functions digpow and digits
      - (digpow 1234) -> (1000 200 30 4)
      - (digits 1234) -> (1 2 3 4)
      - other bases than ten via optional second arg.
    - new functions sum and prod for adding or multiplying
      sequence of numbers without having to apply or reduce
      through + or *.
    - new divides function for divisibility testing.
    - bit functions logand, logior and loxor allow character operands.
    - function bit can test bit of character
  - control flow:
    - new macros doloop and doloop*
    - trivial case of tagbody optimized away.
  - extraction language:
    - bi-directional string tree match semantics for non-variables
      in @(bind) and other contexts.
  - FFI:
    - new buf-carray-function
    - new functions for reading and writing FFI types from and to streams.
  - I/O streams:
    - New stream type for doing I/O from and to a buffer.
    - Functions for Base64 encoding and decoding from one stream to another.
    - length argument in truncate-stream function now optional
      - defaults to current read/write position
  - parser:
    - more efficient treatment of string literals.
  - improvements in Vim syntax coloring.

  Bugs:

  - listener:
    - recognizes incomplete buf literals properly as open syntax.
  - tagbody:
    - tagbody was setting up anonymous block, which it must not.
  - pad function
    - spurious instances of nil were occurring in its output.
  - n-ary math-functions:
    - were not checking the one-arg case, e.g. (+ "foo") -> "foo"
      which should be an error.
  - tok-str:
    - wrongly permitted a call with just one argument.
  - streams:
    - seek-stream was not working when :from-end specified.
  - buffers:
    - buf-put-uchar was broken.
  - parser:
    - fixed "yacc stack overflow" when compiled with Byacc.
    - fixed broken #; syntax handling when compiled with Byacc.
    - fixed broken handling of empty buffer literals.
  - buffers:
    - fixed infinite loop in buf_grow function.



                                    TXR 183
                                   2017-07-19


  Features

  - Extraction Language:
    - New :lists parameter in @(collect)/@(coll)
      - Specifies variables which are are ensured as bindings
        to lists, even if they match nothing, without the
        full blown discipline of :vars.
  - FFI:
    - carray-buf, ffi-get, ffi-put-into, and ffi-in get
      an offset parameter for added flexibility.
  - Environment:
    - The accessors symbol-function, symbol-value and symbol-macro
      can now create bindings that don't exist, when assigned,
      rather than throwing errors.
    - Storing to a (symbol-function (meth ...)) place can define
      a method now.
  - I/O:
    - The format function can now pad floating-point numbers with
      zeros, if a leading zero flag is specified on the precison.
    - remove-path: exception semantics adjusted.
    - New path-cat function for easy catenation of paths.
  - getopts:
    - New argument type :text for an option whose argument is
      a string that is treated as raw text, and not TXR Lisp
      literal syntax as with the :str type.
  - List/Sequence processing:
    - New function, relate: turns corresponding elements from
      a pair of sequences into a translation function.
    - New accessor nth, like ANSI Lisp nth.
    - find and pos functions optimized and improved in
      support of objects that implement sequences.
  - Filters:
    - New *filters* special variable exposed. This holds the
      named filters used in the extraction language, as a hash
      table.

  Bugs

  - Fixed spurious warnings occurring in some situations when
    functions are invoked using square bracket syntax.
  - Fixed runaway recursion when trace macro used
    to trace the * or format functions.
  - regex: regex printing no longer renders superfluous parentheses
    around character classes.
  - getopts: fixed broken custom option type.



                                    TXR 182
                                   2017-07-09


  Features

  - Lisp:
    - Lambda expressions are function names now, improving compatibility
      of TXR Lisp with other dialects.
  - FFI:
    - Support for preparing zero-filled objects for foreign functions:
      - New functions zstruct and zero-fill, and new macro znew.
    - Relaxation in cptr type allowing a nil-tagged cptr null pointer to
      convert to foreign pointer through a cptr FFI type bearing any tag.
  - OOP:
    - New functions provided for accessing and storing a struct type's
      initfun and postinitfun.
    - The keywords :init and :postinit can be used in the place of
      method names, allowing a struct type's initfun and postinitfun to be
      redefined using defmeth syntax, and also referenced using
      the (meth type slot) syntax.
  - Doc improvements:
    - FFI restructured into major section with better divisions.
    - Better HTML TOC: [+] [-] open/collapse UI rearranged.

  Bugs:

  - OOP:
    - bugfixes in static-slot-ensure also affecting defmethod.
  - Listener:
    - newlines occurring in material pasted with Ctrl-X P (result of previous
      evaluation) are properly treated now as line breaks.
  - build: configure script triest to detect deviant libffi installations,
    like that of Arch Linux.
  - call-super-method function deprecated.



                                    TXR 181
                                   2017-07-01


  Features

  - FFI:
    - new cptr functions cptr-cast and int-cptr.
    - new macro deffi-sym
    - enums can be based on types other than int.
    - make-union can specify an initial value, and optionally specify the
      member for that value (defaulting to the first member).

  - Lib:
    - New Cartesian product mapping functions: maprod and maprend.

  Bugs

  - FFI:
    - fixed broken "in" semantics of zarray types.
    - fixed failure to null terminate zarrays.
    - fixed broken struct/union returns on big endian.
    - fixed bool types reporting as integers in the
      printed #<ffi-type ...> notation.
    - fixed more bugs in bitfield layout leading to
      incorrect placement and retrieval of bitfield values.
    - fixed union types reporting as struct types
      in the #<ffi-type ...> notation.



                                    TXR 180
                                   2017-06-25


  Features

  - FFI:
    - new types: bool, longlong, ulonglong.
    - support for C unions.
    - improved support for type-tagged cptr.
    - some performance optimizations.

  Bugs

  - Fixed regression in horizontal @(trailer) introduced in 170.
  - Fixed broken append redirection operator ->> in awk macro.
  - FFI:
    - fixed broken float put operation.
    - fixed broken handling of cptr when parametrized by tag symbol.



                                    TXR 179
                                   2017-06-18


  Features

  - FFI:
    - carray-sub function becomes accessor.
    - New functions num-carray and unum-carray to treat
      carray as a binary blob holding an integer,
      which is extracted.
    - New functions carray-unum and carray-num, which
      convert the binary image of an integer into a carray.
    - New copy-carray function, hooked into copy function.
  - Listener:
    - Multi-line mode is now default.
    - New Ctrl-X ? displays "cheat sheet" of interactive commands.
    - Open syntax is now detected:
      - when Enter is pressed in incomplete expression, a line
        break is inserted.
  - Sequences:
    - Functions length and empty now check whether a structure has
      a method called length and use it.
    - New concept being introduced: sequence that are not vectors, strings or
      lists can be "vector-like" or "list-like".
      - A struct is a vector-like sequence if it has lambda and length
        methods.
    - reverse and nreverse handle generalized sequences:
      - can be applied to carray
    - ref and refset now work on structs, via lambda and lambda-set.
      - could be considered a bugfix.

  Bugs

  - Numerics:
    - Fixed sign-extend function, broken for bignums.
    - Hardened the MPI library:
      - Clamped the maximum digit size to prevent numeric overflows
        in bignum sizes and bit counts.
      - Introduced new MP_TOOBIG error into MPI library, which is
        is handled in TXR Lisp runtime.
      - bit count argument of ash function range checked,
        since it must fit into the C type int.
  - Fixed neglect to autload place macros.
  - FFI:
    - fixed bugs in bitfield layout.



                                    TXR 178
                                   2017-06-12


  Features

  - FFI:
    - carray objects greatly extended:
      - element selection with select
      - assignable indexing and range selection
      - integration with the [...] syntax, ref, refset, sub and replace.
      - carray-get and carray-put functions make carrays
        more convenient for handling C arrays across FFI.
      - length function supports carray.
      - carray-pun function lets carray be reinterpreted as
        an array of a different element type.
      - carrayp function for testing whether object is carray.
    - if libffi is missing at build configure time, much more functionality
      from the FFI module is now retained.
  - Buffers:
    - ref and refset indexing supported, along with [...] syntax.
    - bufp function.
  - Awk macro:
    - new fconv conversions c and cz for C notation 0x... hex, 0... octal.

  Bugs

  - Added missing overflow checks in memory allocation code in various
    places in library: FFI, streams, system interface.
  - Fixed bug in vector function, allowing the negative sizes -2 and -1
    to get through.
  - Awk macro:
    - fixed broken rng (basic both-endpoint-inclusive form)
  - FFI:
    - fixed failure to trigger string conversion for arrays whose
      element is a character typedef rather than direct character type.
    - fixed broken get semantics of incomplete (zarray char),
      and likewise for (zarray bchar) and (zarray wchar).
      - was getting a vector rather than string.



                                    TXR 177
                                   2017-06-07


  Features

  - FFI:
    - bitfields:
      - struct members may be bitfields, using 1, 2 or 4 byte storage cells.
    - enums:
      - enum types convert between sets of symbols denoting numeric values,
        and FFI type int.
    - align operator in type language:
      - the alignment of types can be customized to achieve effects like
        packed structures, or conformance with unusual alignment requirements.
    - endian types:
      - big and little endian versions of int16, uint16, ... int64, uint64,
        float and double.
      - FFI transparently handles conversion.
    - new macros: alignof, offsetof, arraysize, elemsize, elemtype
    - numeric values in type language such as array sizes are now
      evaluated expressions.
    - new val type for transparently passing raw Lisp values.
  - Streams:
    - New put-buf and fill-buf functions for I/O based on buf type.
      - FFI-type-driven conversions to/from buffers combine with buf I/O,
        allowing TXR to deal with binary data in files and over networks.
  - Command Line:
    - new *args-eff* variable provides access to transformed command
      line arguments.
    - "Hash bang" support rewritten, and now features a "hash bang null hack":
      - Additional arguments to TXR may be encoded in a hash bang line
        after a null byte.
  - lib:
    - mkstring's <char> argument now optional, defaulting to space.

  Bugs

  - FFI:
    - lingering broken assumption that alignment of pointers is the same
      as their size.
    - GC integrity issue in carray and cptr objects.
    - Another GC integrity issue affecting basic FFI types.
    - fixed incorrectly coded exception throws affecting code which
      misuses one of the four functions that connect FFI and buffers.
    - slots named nil in a FFI struct are now culled when making the
      corresponding Lisp struct type.
    - fixed broken handling of return values on big-endian platorms,
      related to a historic quirk in libffi.
    - fixed some broken conversions and range checks affecting some
      integer types.
    - fixed broken get semantics for arrays of bchar.
      - failure to null-terminate decoded string.
    - fixed clockid-t type not being defined on platforms that do have
      the corresponding clockid_t C type.
  - Build system:
    - "make tests" doesn't cache output of failed tests, so they are repeated
      when re-invoked.



                                    TXR 176
                                   2017-05-21


  Features

  FFI:
  - New tagged variant of cptr type, for improved safety.
  - New carray type for handling arrays of unknown size,
    where FFI's automatic memory handling isn't of help.
  - deffi-type is just called typedef
  - New ffi macro providing a shorthand for ffi-type-compile.
  - Variable length arrays that are null-terminated (zarray <type>)
    now have useful semantics: the type can extract an arbitrarily
    long null-terminated array from foreign memory.
  - Previously undocumented ffi-call function is now documented,
    and has undergone an API change.
  - deffi macro now generates Lisp functions with fixed number of
    arguments, so a mismatch in number of arguments is caught
    at the wrapper level, rather than down inside ffi-call.
  - New deffi-var macro for defining a Lisp variable connected
    to a foreign variable.
  Awk macro:
  - New (again) operator for repeating all the rules against
    the same record.
  Filesystem:
  - New functions dir-name, base-name and variable path-sep-chars.
  - New function realpath, wrapper for the POSIX one.

  Bugs

  - fixed corrupt line numbers being reported in some
    situations, like unbound variables inside quasi-word-list literals.
  - FFI:
    - fixed broken in semantics of buf type.
    - fixed broken alignment of basic types leading to wrong
      struct layouts.
    - nil value now handled by FFI buf type, mapped to null pointer.
    - A ffi call now releases up temporary local memory when an
      exception occurs in the argument preparation phase.
    - A ffi callback similarly releases any temporary memory
      allocated during the preparation of the return value, if
      the preparation terminates due to an exception.
    - Defense in the type system against incomplete (i.e. zero sized)
      types being passed or returned by value, or used as array
      elements or struct slots.
    - Fixed wrong documentation about variable-length arrays corresponding
      to pointers.
    - FFI calls are now checked for proper number of arguments.



                                    TXR 175
                                   2017-05-15


  Features

  - New: Foreign Function Interface (FFI)
    - Declare bindings to C-compatible functions in other software
      components (dynamic libraries).
    - Use Lisp functions as C-compatible from foreign software
      components.
  - New :prompt command in listener, nicknamed :p, which
    turns on prompts, useful in the plain mode listener.
  - stat structure has a path slot now, for convenience;
    - answers question: if the stat was obtained from a path,
      what was that path?
  - Built in functions and macros can now be redefined:
    only a warning occurs, rather than error.
  - New buffer data type.
  - Functions related to cptr type exposed.
  - Funtions dlopen, dlsym and related functions exposed.
  - OOP:
    - new and lnew macros now check nonexistence of base type at
      expansion time and generate immediate warning.

  Bugs

  - Printing issue with embdedded symbols in quasiliterals.
  - Fixed broken printing of quasi-word-list literals.
  - @{expr [index]} substitution syntax now indexes into
    any kind of sequence, not only lists.
  - Tightening in parser to reject certain unassigned syntax
    like #[], and better error checking over hash literals.
  - Bugfixes in area of processing TXR pattern language in context
    of user-defined package.
  - OOP print methods can now disable *print-circle* over
    recursive print calls.
  - Unintering built-in symbols is now possible without
    catastrophic results.
  - Fixed error in macro-expander's traversal of the special
    forms return-from, sys:abscond-from and block*.
  - Fixed bug in expander for suspend macro.
  - Fixed bug in the ash function when right shifting fixnum integers.
  - Fixed tostringp not behaving for float numbers in documented manner.
  - mkstring and vec-set-length defend against negative argument.
  - lognot and logtrunc defend against negative number of bits.
  - Fixed bug in --free-all logic when --vg-debug in effect.
  - Fixed incorrectly ordered logic in make-catenated-stream, exposing
    a Lisp object to premature reclamation.
    - Reproduced as actual issue on Darwin, under the --gc-debug
      GC torture test.



                                    TXR 174
                                   2017-04-04


  Features

  - TXR Pattern Language:
    - The special phrase forms like @(collect) and @(end) are now integrated
      with the package system.
  - opip macro:
      - forms like .a.b or .(meth x y) occurring in opip
        now evaluate to functional pipeline terms as expected.
  - Lexical syntax:
    - Dubious run-on lexical forms like 0.1.2 and .1.1 now diagnosed.
  - Time:
    - New functions time-parse-local and time-parse-utc.
  - Listener:
    - The -n option now has the additional effect of forcing the listener
      into plain input mode (no editing, history, or completion) even if
      the input device is a TTY.

  Bugs

  - Fixed broken support for building in separate directory.
  - Floating-point constant regression: .123 being misinterpreted as a slot
    access if preceded by whitespace.
  - Fixed rejection of 0.1..0.2 range syntax with floating-point operands.
  - Fixed a...b syntax error. This is a .. .b.
  - Fixed apply and iapply broken behavior: not splitting non-list
    sequences into individual arguments, like documentation says.
  - Linenoise issue fixed: when reading from a non-tty mode without
    editing, the continuous instantiation of a new buffere stream
    was causing input data to be discarded.
  - Scanner issue fixed: `@@1abc` was being interpreted as `@{@1}abc`
    rather than `@{@1abc}`.



                                    TXR 173
                                   2017-03-25


  Features

  - Listener:
    - Completion is now sensitive to slot or method context: .(abc[TAB] and
      .abc[TAB] searches appropriate spaces.
  - TXR Pattern Language
    - Unbound variable followed by directive is now bound to partial
      match result while searching for match for directive.
  - GC:
    - Finalizers may now invoke call-finalizers; behavior no longer unspecified.
  - Lisp code processing:
    - Warnings issued when expanding code that accesses nonexistent struct slots.
      - Not a form of type checking at all, but catches many typos.
  - Windows:
    - Improved 16x16 icon.

  Bugs

  - Lisp code processing:
    - Fixed missing warnings when main module is a .txr file.
    - Fixed missing unbound variable/function warnings for unbound symbols that
      are the direct operands of [...] syntax.
    - Fixed wrong name being printed in trace messages, when trace is used
      to simultaneously enable tracing for two or more functions.
  - Windows:
    - Start menu shortcut now starts in user profile dir, rather than
      incorrectly in TXR standard library installation dir.



                                    TXR 172
                                   2017-03-19


  Features

  - Argument of umask function is optional
    - if omitted, function returns current umask.
  - OOP:
    - new static-slot-home function
      - reports the base class which actually
        defines a slot.
  - Sandboxing support:
    - New *package-alist* variable gives application control
      over what packages exist over a dynamic scope.
      - Makes possible safe evaluation of TXR Lisp code obtained
        as input from untrusted source.
      - Special behavior worked into exception handling to
        close a potential sandbox hole.
  - Tracing:
    - trace now canonicalizes a method name to the
      base class which defines a method and produces
      a warning if this is different from what was requested.
      - E.g. (trace (meth dog speak)) is issued, but dog
        just inherits (meth animal speak) which is what is
        actually traced.
    - warnings issued when traced functions are redefined.
  - Windows:
    - New icons, redesigned from scratch.
    - SVG logo now in source tree.

  Bugs

  - Parser fix in relation to new unbound reference
    dot syntax: now it may be a top-level expression,
    so entering .a.b.c into the REPL isn't a syntax error.
  - Missing documentation for opt function added.
  - Windows:
    - Fixes from Cygnal:
      - dir and shell fields in password structure
        returned by getpwent are Windows paths that
        make sense.
      - HOME environment variable has same value as USERPROFILE.
      - Fixes issue when Windows Vim is invoked out of txr,
        of Vim being confused by nonsensical HOME value.
    - Linenoise fix: Ctrl-X Ctr-E (edit in external editor)
      - Now temp file closed before spawning external editor.
      - Fixes issue of editor reporting that the file is
        in use by another application and not being able to save.
      - Fixes issue that Vim reports the file as readonly.



                                    TXR 171
                                   2017-03-14


  Features

  - New unbound referencing dot syntax: .a.b.c.d
    corresponding to (uref a b c d) macro operator
    - Produces a function which curries slot references,
      binding them to an object passed to it as argument.
  - Command line:
    - The argument - (dash) is no longer required to specify
      that standard input is to be scanned; it is default behavior.
  - TXR access from Lisp:
    - last two arguments are now optional in match-fun.
  - OOP:
    - new functions struct-from-args and struct-from-plist
      provide slightly simplified interfaces to make-struct.
    - A structure's print method can now return : (the colon symbol)
      to indicate that it declines printing, so the built-in structure
      printing takes place.
      - suppresed by -C 170 (or lower) compat option.
  - Sequences library:
    - new rmismatch function: compares tails of sequences and
      reports mismatching position as a negative value.
    - new functions starts-with and ends-with.
    - split, split*, partition, partition*: now allow negative
      indices.
      - previous behavior of ignoring negative indices can be selected
        using -C 170 (or lower).
  - TXR Pattern Language:
    - New directive @(mdo): "macro-time do": evaluates Lisp code
      immediately after being parsed and disappears from syntax tree.
    - New @(in-package) directive, allows pattern language files to
      succinctly express being in an alternative package.

  Bugs

  - Fixed spurious warnings about :vars set up in @(repeat)
    being unbound as well as the :counter variable in @(collect).
  - Fixed lack of macro-expansion on the init expression
    in @(collect :counter (var init)).
  - The TXR matcher now refuses to open input sources that are
    streams, or standard input default, for non-matching directives,
    in the same manner that file name sources are treated.
    Thus @(next s) (where s is a stream) not cause any input
    to be pulles from s until a matching directive is encountered.
  - match-fun: @(next) in the invoked pattern function now correctly
    switches to the first file in the list of files passed
    to match-fun.
  - Fixed numerous instances of improperly terminated formatted
    printing in the TXR internals (missing "nao" argument).



                                    TXR 170
                                   2017-02-28


  Features

  - Horizontal-mode @(throw) directive.
  - Horizontal @(block)...@(end) syntax.
  - Second argument of trunc function is now optional:
    (trunc -1.5) yields -1.0.
  - floor and ceil functions take optional second argument,
    which acts as a divisor: (floor 10 3) -> 3; (ceil 10 3) -> 4.
  - New round function: (round 0.7) -> 1; (round 3 4) -> 1; (round 1 3) -> 0.
  - New functions floor-rem, ceil-rem and round-rem.

  Bugs

  - Requirements for special interaction between @(accept)
    and @(next), function calls, and @(finally) have been
    identified and implemented.
  - Fixed segfault (C null pointer dereference) when nil
    symbol used to look up a struct slot.



                                    TXR 169
                                   2017-02-11


  Features

  - Improvements in area of warnings and deferrable warnings.
    - Representation of deferrable warnings changes; the defr-warning exception
      type derived from warning is used.
  - Awk macro:
    - Now provides a warning when a rng expression appears to refer to a local
      variable or function that is unreachable due to the code relocation.
  - New functions rassoc and rassql.

  Bugs

  - compile-warning function: added missing catch in compile-warning
    functionfor continuing after warning is handled.



                                    TXR 168
                                   2017-02-05


  Features

  - Mutation of lexical functions is forbidden and diagnosed.
    - e.g. (set (fun f) ...) when f is lexical.
  - Improved diagnostics during place expansion and when
    exceptions occur at macro-expansion time.
  - New function rlcp-tree.
  - New macro whena, complements ifa and conda.
  - Functions remq, remql, remqual, remove-if, keepq,
    keepql, keepqual and keep-if were rewritten and work
    more efficiently for vectors and strings.


  Bugs

  - Fixed an issue in the the expansion of Lisp-1 forms as places.
  - Fixed ocurrence of "expansion at nil" diagnostic in some
    error traces.
  - Fixed printing of unnecessary package prefix on symbols which
    are visible in the current package, but not interned in it.
  - Fixed rehome-sym not removing symbol from hidden list of
    destination package, as documetned.
  - Fixed broken keepql function.
  - Fixed bug in poll function: rejecting stdio-stream type
    objects as non-streams due to strict type check rather
    than subtype.



                                    TXR 167
                                   2017-02-02


  Features

  - New functions defer-warning and dump-deferred-warnings.
  - Awk macro:
    - small convenience: an input source given in :inputs can now be a list of
      strings, which the macro converts to a stream.
  - Tightening in syntax:
    - When floating-point tokens are followed by a period and a non-period
      character, this is now a "trailing junk" syntax error:
        SYNTAX         OLD BEHAVIOR             NEW BEHAVIOR
        1.$            "trailing junk" error    "trailing junk" error
        1.0.$          (qref 1.0 $)             "trailing junk" error
        1.0.a          (qref 1.0 a)             "trailing junk" error
        1.0.0          1.0 0.0                  "trailing junk" error
        1.1.<EOF>      generic syntax error     "trailing junk" error
    - Spliced symbols are diagnosed as "bad token" syntax errors
        SYNTAX         OLD BEHAVIOR             NEW BEHAVIOR
        :a:a           :a :a                    "bad token"
        @a@a           @a @a                    "bad token"
        usr:foo:bar    usr:foo :bar             "bad token"
   - These changes are not subject to -C option: code must be fixed
     if it contains these incorrect lexical forms.

  Bugs

  - The sort function now actually implements a stable sort over lists,
    as has been documented for a long time.
  - Missing autoload registrations for catch* and handle* added.
  - Parameter list macros now recognized in the parameter list of a catch
    clause.
  - Fixed incorrect printing of a symbol that is not visible in the current
    package due to being hidden by a like-named symbol: such as symbol must be
    printed with its package qualifier.
  - Fixed issue: Lisp files loaded from the command line were showing spurious
    undefined warnings that wouldn't appear if the same files were loaded with
    (load ...).



                                    TXR 166
                                   2017-01-26


  Features

  - Deferred warnings
    - System of deferred warnings implemented allowing forward references
      to functions, variables and anything else (extensible).
  - New error reporting convenience functions for macro writing: compile-error,
    compile-warning, compile-defr-warning.
  - A parameter list macro called :key is provided, allowing functions
    and macros to easily take keyword parameters.
  - New memp function for searching a property list.
  - New functions plist-to-alist and improper-plist-to-alist.
  - New macros catch* and handle* which provide catches and handlers access
    to the exception symbol.
  - Local macrolets established by the build macro such as add, pend,
    pend* and others are now functions.
  - Awk macro:
    - *stdin* now bound to current input stream.
    - new fname variable analogous to FILENAME.

  Bugs

  - Unbound functions diagnosed consistently between
    dotted (fun ... . x) forms and ordinary.
  - *stderr* bound on entry into the repl, so errors sent to *stderr* go
    to the repl's output stream.
  - Better error reporting for nonexistent base in defmeth.
  - Fixed broken supertype check in make-struct-type also affecting
    defstruct, a nonexistent base to be treated as if it were nil.
  - Fixed compound forms not being expanded in quasiliterals. This is a
    TXR 160 regression breaking `@(macro ...)` usage.
  - Muffle expansion-time warnings in op macro expander.
  - Fixed missing macro expansion of TXR Lisp forms in collect, coll, gather,
    output, and numerous other TXR directives.
  - doc: missing documentation for :var argument of @(next) written.
  - Fixed small ambguity issue in expansion of keyword args in
    @(repeat)/@(rep).
  - Fixed an expansion issue affecting output vars.
  - *package* subject to rebinding in @(load) just like in the Lisp
    load function.
  - Cleaned up sloppy expansion in braced variables.
    The argument of the :filter keyword isn't expanded.
  - Fixed poor expansion order of parameter list macros, and a related bug.
  - Fixed :whole and :form arguments in macro parameters lists not allowing
    destructuring (due to an exception being thrown at expansion time
    if their arguments are not bindable symbols).
  - Fixed init-forms of optional arguments being expanded in an
    incorrect macro environment, in which earlier arguments are not
    visible as they should be.
  - Fixed broken termination tests in take-while and take-until.
  - Fixed wrong form being taken as the to-be-destructured form in
    mac-param-bind.



                                    TXR 165
                                   2017-01-10


  Features

  - New Lisp concept: parameter list expander macros.
    - customize function behavior with attribute-like keywords which invoke
      custom expanders to transform bodies and parameter lists.
  - Throughout the TXR pattern language parser, checks against empty clauses
    have been eliminated. Empty clauses in numerous situations are not
    considered syntax errors.
  - The last variable in whilet can be omitted in the same way like in iflet
    and whenlet.

  Bugs

  - Fixed missing space between attribute keywords in the printed
    representation of a hash.
  - Windows native version picks up fix for Cygnal issue 15.



                                    TXR 164
                                   2017-01-01


  Features

  - Awk macro: new variable fw for delimiting records according to fixed field
    widths.
  - The last variable may now be omitted in the bindings list of iflet, whenlet
    and condlet, leaving just the controlling expression, not bound to a
    variable.
  - Various syntax checks over function and macro parameter lists, and variable
    bindings, have been moved out of run time and into expansion time.

  Bugs

  - Build: "make clean" now removes txr-win.exe
  - Fixed a lingering bug in the handling of special variables in parallel
    binding, not fixed in the work done in this area for the previous release.
  - Fixed a bug in the handling of optional-argument presence indicating
    arguments: not binding them dynamically when they are special variables.
  - Fixed inconsistency in the regex-source function: the source of the
    (compound "str") regex was reported as "str", which isn't the same thing
    when fed to the compiler.
  - Fixed completely broken quasi-quoting over #R range literal syntax.
  - Fixed a read/print consistency problem in quasiliterals.
  - Fixed a problem with catch operator form not being fixed-point stable
    under repeated passes through the expander. To fix the problem, catch
    has turned into a macro which expands to an internal sys:catch operator.



                                    TXR 163
                                   2016-12-20


  Features

  - New equot macro: quote after macro expansion.
  - CL compatibility:
    - New function endp.
    - New function mismatch.
    - New prog and prog* macros.
  - Signal handling:
    - If an async signal is caught and handled by Lisp code during gc, gc is
      canceled.
      - Allows recovery from segfault due to stack overflow during gc.
  - Exception handling:
    - New function find frames.
  - Awk macro:
    - New awk local macros -rng, rng- and -rng-, providing endpoint-exclusive
      variants of rng.
  - Redesigned binding of special variables.
    - Fixes subtle bugs
    - Reduces number of variable binding special forms.
    - Removes special var handling responsibility from binding special forms.

  Bugs

  - Method lookup doesn't throw on nonexistent slots.
  - Fixed find-max not handling interpreter literal strings.
  - Expansion bugfix in tagbody.



                                    TXR 162
                                   2016-12-07


  Features

  - Awk:
    - Awk prn macro is now a function: can be used as a functional argument

  - Regex:
    - New functions fr^$, fr^, fr$ and frr.


  Bugs

  - Awk:
    - fixed assignment to field list f not yielding the new value as a result,
      returning another object instead.
    - input processing loop containing no cond-action clauses was being elided,
      even if it contained :begin, :end, :beginfile or :endfile clauses which
      must be executed.
    - awk macro implicitly obtaining its input sources from the command line
      wasn't consuming the command line, causing problems when macro is used
      from the command line.
  - Syntax, input:
    - Fixed robustness issue in handling of out-of-range hex/octal character
      escapes.
      - This fixes a crash that could be triggered in the regex module by
        a regex containing out-of-range character escapes in a character class.
    - Stray debug printf removed from lexical analyzer.
      - Occurred only when diagnosing certain invalid floating-point syntax.
    - Fixed syntax error being reported when last item in a Lisp source
      file or :read paste in the REPL is an object erased with #; notation.
  - Syntax, output:
    - Fixed ^(a . ,b) being printed as ^(a sys:unquote b).
    - Fixed ^(,* a) and ^(, *a) both printing as ^(,*a).
  - Exceptions:
    - fixed handle macro's deviation from documented syntax.
      - subject to compat option.



                                    TXR 161
                                   2016-11-28


  Bugs

  - Regression: awk macro spews warnings.



                                    TXR 160
                                   2016-11-27


  Features

  - New hash table function clearhash.
  - TXR Lisp macro-expanding code walker now generates warnings
    about unbound variables and functions.
    - ignwarn macro provided for ignoring warnings.
  - macro-time macro now interleaves expansion and evaluation, so that the
    evaluation effects of forms occurring earlier in the
    macro-time form are visible to the macro-expansion-time of later forms.
  - New exception-subtype-map function for retrieving type symbol hiearchy.

  Bugs

  - Fixed numerous bugs in macro expander:
    - not including symbols in macro-time environment:
      - macrolet arguments
      - dohash key and value variables
      - function name in defun
      - the auxiliary Boolean parameters that can exist on optional parameters
        which indicate whether the optional argument is present.
    - not expanding:
      - mac-param-bind special forms at all.
    - wrongly traversing and expanding:
      - @var and @(expr) syntax
    - incorrectly expanding:
      - arguments of op using Lisp-2 expansion style rather than Lisp-1.
  - Fixed a number of library functions broken due to using nonexistent
    variables: test-inc macro, str-inaddr-net, str-inaddr6-net,
  - Fixed broken read-print consistency of quasiliterals.
    - example: `@@@a` would print as `@@a` which is a different object.
  - Fixed op and related macros not handling @rest in the dot position.
  - Fixed interaction between circular notation and hash literals.
    - literals denoting eql-based hash tables which contain themselves
      as keys now work.
    - literals denoting equal-based hash tables doing the same thing
      are not supported for now; they produce junk hash tables.
  - Build system:
    - Changes in 159 caused builds to fail on some systems unless lex
      was manually specified.
      - On some systems the $(LEX) make variable points to something
        which isn't GNU Flex compatible.
      - On some systems $(LEX) points to a nonexistent lex even if
        Flex is installed.



                                    TXR 159
                                   2016-11-21


  Features

  - Tweaks in generational GC.
  - Rounding out of package system with "fallback" concept.
  - TXR Lisp now has a tagbody macro.
  - Macro bindings now hold first-class functions.
  - Global macros have (macro <sym>) function names
    - symbol-function works with (macro <sym>).
    - Possible to (trace (macro <sym>)) to trace a macro.
    - Posible to (defun (macro <sym>) args body ...) to
      write a raw macro expander as a plain function.
    - func-get-name applied to global macro expander function
      calculates its (macro <sym>) name.
  - Trace macro now throws error if an undefined function occurs
    in the argument list.
  - The previously deprecated -b option has been revived and repurposed:
    - use "-b sym=obj" syntax to pre-define a Lisp variable.
  - Build system:
    - TXR now honors standard Make variables like CC and CFLAGS.

  Bugs

  - Fixed macro-expansion bug in which forms are expanded
    at macro time, to determine whether or not they are constant,
    wrongly using the global macro environment rather than
    the lexical one.



                                    TXR 158
                                   2016-11-15


  Features

  - OOP:
    - New feature: dirty flag bit on struct instances. Code can tell if any
      instance slots were modified since last time dirty flag was cleared.
  - Packages:
    - New in-package macro.

  Bugs

  - Interactive txr switches *package* to user package before entering
    the listener, in case the specified script file alters it.
  - Fixed broken bignum addition.
  - Fixed breakage in fixnum to bignum conversion affecting 64 bit targets.
  - Fixed invalid mutation of applied argument list, affecting
    some functions. Test case: [apply lcm (list 1)] mutates (1) to (nil).



                                    TXR 157
                                   2016-11-14


  Features

  - New #; syntax for commenting out Lisp object.
  - #: syntax for uninterned symbols now works as an input notation.
  - Packages:
    - Overhauled implementation with increased scope.
    - New *package* special variable holds current package.
    - New concepts in package system: foreign symbols, hidden symbols.
    - New functions: package-local-symbols, package-foreign-symbols, use-sym,
      unuse-sym, use-package, unuse-package, unintern.
    - New defpackage macro.
  - Improvements in Vim syntax coloring; don't forget to install new txr.vim
    and tl.vim files.
  - New convenience functions for file or process I/O in one call: file-get,
    file-put, file-append, file-get-string, file-put-string,
    file-append-string, file-get-lines, file-put-lines, file-append-lines,
    command-get, command-put, command-get-string, command-put-string,
    command-get-lines, and command-put-lines.

  Bugs

  - Fixed an infinite loop in the processing of syntactic places: regression
    introduced in 156.
  - Fixed bug in processing of nested syntactic places like [place arg] where
    the inner place is a macro.
  - Fixed regression in awk macro introduced in 156, related to the above bug:
    not being able to assign to a field as in (set [f 3] "foo"). The bug was
    there before, but the change suddenly removed the accidental circumstances
    which protected the awk macro from reproducing the problem.
  - Fixed some additional problems in circle printing, in the printing
    of package objects and and interpreted functions.
  - A few GC-unsafe mutations were found in the TXR kernel, by inspection, and
    fixed. No actual instability was reproduced.
  - Fixed a bug in the caseq, caseql and casequal macros: single-atom key
    values were being exposed to evaluation rather than taken as themselves.
    This behavior can still be obtained with the compatibility switch;
    but it is recommended to first see whether switching to one of the new
    case constructs caseq*, caseql* or casequal* is feasible.



                                    TXR 156
                                   2016-11-05


  Features

  - time-parse function defaults to epoch time.
  - new accessors nthlast and butlastn.
  - sub function is now an accessor.
  - last and butlast functions are accessors, and get optional index argument.
  - Awk macro:
    - now supports pipe/file redirection.
  - Function tracing support: trace, untrace macros, *trace-output* stream.
  - symbol-function accessor can refer to methods via (meth ...) syntax.
  - restrictions in dwim places relaxed:
    in (set [x y] z), x doesn't necessarily have to be a place.
  - OOP:
    - new lambda-set method can treat [obj ...] expressions as places when obj
      is a struct.
    - new slots function for getting complete list of slots of a struct type.
  - New neq, neql and nequal functions for negated equality tests: for all
    those times you hate writing (not (equal a b)).
  - New command-line argument processing library.
  - Improved printing of error location, and tracing locations across place
    expansions.

  Bugs

  - quasiquote now works properly over struct literals.
  - wrong return value of nthcdr place fixed.
  - fixed circular printer blocking unwinding.
  - tok-str semantics adjusted once again to eliminate
    spurious empty tokens in some situations.
  - fixed broken tok-where (regression).
  - fixed potential incorrect evaluation order in dwim places.
  - fixed bugs in circular printing that traverses hash tables and objects with
    print methods
  - *stdout* now flushed when processing unhandled exceptions, so that
    diagnostics sent to *stderr* appear properly ordered w.r.t. prior
    *stdout* output.



                                    TXR 155
                                   2016-10-21


  Features

  - Common-Lisp-style circle notation supported now both on input and output.
    - *print-circle* special variable now exists.
    - supported across print methods.
  - OOP:
    - print methods now take three arguments rather than two, and are called
      for readable and pretty printing, not only pretty printing.
  - env-fbind and env-vbind functions allow nil env argument to denote toplevel
    bindings; thus they can be used to bind global variables.

  Bugs

  - fixed regression: inability to work with places denoted by compounded
    referencing dot; e.g.  (set a.b.c val)
  - fixed showstopper regression: inheritance of static slots causes assertion
    and crash at garbage collection time (while simply checking for a condition
    that is harmless in and of itself).
  - reduce-left: initial value pulled from the input list itself was not passed
    through key function.
  - fixed some places where a volatile qualifier on a local variable was
    missing, found by inspection: actual impact not determined.
  - Listener was sending error traces to *stderr* stream instead of the
    listener's configured output stream; that was causing confusing output
    sometimes.




                                    TXR 154
                                   2016-10-15


  Features

  - OOP:
    - Functions method and umethodk, and the macros meth and umeth,
      now take additional arguments which are curried into the method call.
  - Regex:
    - In the regex abstract syntax, the and and or operators are now
      n-ary, rather than being strictly binary.
    - New regex-from-trie function.
  - Listener:
    - New Ctrl-X Ctrl-P feature to paste the result of the previous
      evaluation into the current command line.
  - Time:
    - time struct supports gmtoff and zone fields, on systems where these
      are available in the C struct tm.
  - Hash tables:
    - the hash user data is now included in the printed notation for hash
      tables; thus, hash literals can specify user data.
    - new hash construction keyword :userdata supported alongside :equal-based
      and others, so hashes can be constructed with user data in various
      situations.
    - New function hash-userdata is an accessor (serves as a place);
      get-hash-userdata is deprecated.
   - Sockets:
     - address structures (sockaddr, sockaddr-in, sockaddr-in6, sockaddr-unix)
       now all have a family slot, so programs don't have to switch on
       the object type to map to a numeric address family.

  Bugs

  - Bugfix in argument handling affecting struct method calls.
  - Listener:
    - Fixed bug in Ctrl-X Enter (submit historic line and stay in history).
      - If the line being submitted is a duplicate, it would not submit
        the line, and the position in history wouldn't advance to the next.
  - OOP:
    - Fixed various situations in which abstract sequence objects
      (object supporting car, cdr and nullify methods) didn't work as expected.
      - for instance: length, sub and where functions.



                                    TXR 153
                                   2016-10-07


  Bugs

  - GC-related regression in static-slot-ensure fixed,
    affecting code which uses defmeth also, causing
    instability.
  - Fixed long-time GC-related issues in replace-struct
    and clear-struct which threaten stability.
  - Check for self-assignment in replace-struct.



                                    TXR 152
                                   2016-10-04

  Features

  - Licensing:
    - All license headers in source files reverted to BSD 2-Clause,
      not just the LICENSE file.
  - OOP:
    - Inheritance model for static slots has been revised.
      This is also a bugfix.
  - Range objects support a degree of arithmetic, and can be
    queried with zerop, length and empty.
  - Regexes:
    - Improvements in search-regex function and functions
      based on it: support for negative indices and more.
    - New rr function: regex search which returns a range,
      like range-regex, but better interface for currying.
    - New rra function: return all regex matches as range
      objects.
  - Awk macro:
    - New convenience clauses :set and :set-file,
      to reduce the verbosity of (:begin (set fs ":" ofs ":")).
      to just (:set fs ":" ofs ":").

  Bugs

  - Interactive listener:
    - VT100 arrow key can be issued after Ctrl-X extended mode prefix:
      cancels the Ctrl-X and is carried out.
  - OOP:
    - New static slot inheritance model fixes issues like
      method redefinition with (defmeth ...) inappropriately
      clobbering overridden derived methods differing from the
      original method being redefined.



                                    TXR 151
                                   2016-09-27


  Features

  - Licensing:
    - TXR returns to unmodified BSD 2-Clause
  - Better code generation for simple cases of place mutation.
  - Regex facelift:
    - regex objects are callable like functions.
    - Support for negative start or end positions in regex matching
      operations.
    - regsub function takes functional argument for more flexibility.
    - Numerous new convenience regex functions: m^, m$, m^$, r^, r$,
      r^$, f^, f$ and f^$.
      - these simulate full matching and anchoring in various situations.
    - New regex-source function, for obtaining a regex's original AST.
  - Awk macro:
    - conditions in cond-action clauses and in (rng start-cond end-cond)
      expressions can be functions or regular expressions, which are
      invoked on the record.
    - New fconv conversions: iz, rz and others which yield a zero value
      for empty, nonexistent or junk fields.
    - orec variable provides access to original record, useful when rec
      has been modified.
    - rs variable can be dynamically changed now, taking effect for the
      next record.
    - paragraph mode implemented based on POSIX description and
      observations of GNU Awk behavior.
  - Library:
    - New functions tointz and tofloatz.
    - New build macro for procedural list building.
    - New *load-path* special variable replaces the self-load-path
      symbol macro (which still exists but simply expands to
      *load-path*).
    - load is now a function rather than macro.
    - @(load)/@(include) directives now pull parent path from
      *load-path* variable, rather than own source location.
    - loading uses stricter criteria for deciding what relative paths
      are automatically resolved relative to *load-path*.
  - Streams:
    - New strlist input streams: treat a list of strings as multi-line
      text stream.

  Bugs

  - Awk macro:
    - fixed broken updating assignments to awk variables, such as
      (push item f).
    - awk now exits if there are no cond-action clauses.
  - Regex:
    - match-regex function now returns match length as documented.
    - Broken return value of match-regst fixed.
    - Type of a regex object is now regex, rather than sys:regex.
    - Exception in pretty-printing a correct expression, due to bug in
      handling the & operator.
  - Lists:
    - out-of-range negative indices over lists now yield nil rather than
      the first item.
  - Command line:
    - -Dvar=val binding are now visible to Lisp files.



                                    TXR 150
                                   2016-09-18


  Features

  - Awk macro:
    - New ft variable to optionally specify field tokenization
      as alternative to field separation via fs.
    - New kfs variable to arrange for field separators to be
      retained and represented as fields.
    - New krs variable to keep record separator matched by rs
      as part of record.
    - New fconv operator for succinct and flexible
      conversion of awk fields.
    - Don't rebind *output* if :output clause not specified.
  - New place-mutating macro: upd.
  - New keepq, keepql and keepqual functions.
  - Functions remq, remql and remqual take key argument.
  - split-str take boolean arg to keep separators, like tok-str.

  Bugs

  - Fixed incorrect behavior of functionsremq, remql, remqual, remove_if,
    and keep_if on strings.
  - Fixed broken regex complement operator.
  - Fixed broken while* and until* macro expanders.
  - Fixed bugs in split-str and tok-str.
  - Windows:
    - TXR's standard input, output and error will now be text
      streams, CR-LF externally.
      - This comes from a fix in the Cygnal library being picked up
        into the installer package.
    - Interactive mode uses USERPROFILE env variable for
      location of home directory for edit-in-editor feature.



                                    TXR 149
                                   2016-09-12


  Features

  - Implementation of Awk paradigm in Lisp syntax, in the form of awk macro.
    - TXR programs can now integrate the strategies used in Awk
      as part of their logic.
    - Awk one-liners from the command line possible.
  - New place-mutating operators:
    - pinc and pdec provide post-increment and post-decrement.
    - test-set, test-clear and compare-swap provide a conditional update of a
      place with useful return value.
    - test-inc and test-dec provide increment combined with a test
      of the value.
  - New slet and alet macros
    - companions to rlet, providing more aggressive ways
      than rlet for eliminating unnecessary temporary variables
      in macro expansions.
  - Change in trim-str function: what it considers whitespace.
  - Doc improvements:
    - Formatting problems.
    - Table of contents display issue under Chrome web browser.
    - meta-keywords now italicized in nroff man page output,
      allowing them to be colorized via customizing the less pager.

  Bugs

  - Fixed regression: @(rep) wrongly complains about an empty
    clause when it's not in fact empty.
    - Workaround: use @(coll) or add parameters inside @(rep).
  - Fixed bug in nthcdr defplace: not obtaining macro environment
    in valid way, breaking the test whether the list argument
    is a place.
  - Fixed symbol macros not being expanded in the X position
    of (set [X i] Y) and related situations.
  - Fixed semantic issue in the expansion of place macros.
    - Place macro calls are put only through at most one round of
      regular macro-expansion before being tested again for
      place macro expansion.
    - This allows macros to produce place macro calls.
  - Changed order of calls to :postinit handlers in struct
    instantiation: base first, then derived.




                                    TXR 148
                                   2016-09-01


  Features

  - time-parse function
  - time-string and time-parse methods on time struct
  - optimization added to quasiquote expander to generate better code.

  Bugs

  - Broken defvarl and defparml marking variables special, thus behaving like
    defvar and defparm, respectively.
  - Put limit on numeric range of @<num> arguments in op/do syntax, because
    this generates huge formal parameter
    lists. Found by AFL(fast) fuzzing tool.
  - Fixed generation of huge lists by trivial cases of nested quasiquote
    like ^^^^^^^^^^x. Found by AFL(fast) fuzzing tool.
  - Fixed runaway recursion that can occur in lazy struct initialization when
    cycles are present.
  - Fixed broken Lisp macro expansion in @(if) and output-side
    @(repeat) directives.
  - Rewrote poor, incorrect documentation of @(merge) directive.



                                    TXR 147
                                   2016-08-12


  Features

  - 64 bit Windows/Cygwin port.

  Bugs

  - Fixed native Windows TXR trying to use HOME environment
    variable when run from Cygwin.



                                    TXR 146
                                   2016-07-20


  Features

  - Time and space optimizations in execution of NFA regexes.
  - POSIX uname function exposed.
  - Print syntax which looks like their read syntax implemented for
    quasistrings and quasi-word-list literals.
  - Windows version ships with Cygnal 2.5.1.99 for better
    windows native support.

  Bugs

  - Text streams are not open with stdio "t" mode on Cygwin.
    This was a mistaken change present in 144 and 145.



                                    TXR 145
                                   2016-07-03


  Features

  - The Windows installer version of TXR is now packaged
    with the Cygnal DLL, which is the result of a new project:
    http://www.kyheku.com/cygnal.

  Bugs

  - Fixed crash in getaddrinfo when host is not found.
  - Issues in Windows version fixed by Cygnal project:
    - Fixed unwanted console window suddenly popping up when the
      console-less txr-win spawns a process.
    - Command spawning (sh function, open-command) doesn't require
      sh.exe shim executable any longer to switch to cmd.exe.
    - Fixed issue of messed up REPL display in multi-line mode,
      when lines reach the right edge of the display.




                                    TXR 144
                                   2016-06-29


  Features

  - TXR bids adieu to MinGW: the MinGW-based port to Windows is dropped.
    - Now that Cygwin is under the LGPL, the installer-based TXR
      for Windows is based on the Cygwin version of TXR, and includes
      all the required DLL's.
    - The benefits are great: the Cygwin port of TXR is much less crippled,
      thanks to the excellent POSIX support in Cygwin.
    - The interactive listener now works!
  - Improvements in the support for treating structs as sequences.
  - New --free-all command line option to get TXR to free all malloced memory
    before exiting.
  - Improved semantics of makunbound function: more similar to Common Lisp.
  - @(collect)/@(coll) take a :counter parameter now, with an optional starting
    value, for more streamlined enumeration of collected values.
  - Most TXR-style expression evaluation in the pattern language replaced
    by Lisp evaluation, reducing the need for @ noise.
  - Improved Valgrind support in garbage collector: Valgrind backtraces
    can be printed for interesting objects.


  Bugs:

  - Regression fix: @(catch) and @(finally) clauses can be empty once again.
  - Various memory leaks fixed: in handling of bignums, in syslog streams,
    dgram sockets and in the Lisp parser object.
  - Fixed out of bounds memory access in bit function.
  - Fixed broken (del (symbol-value 'sym)).
  - defsymacro removes existing special marking from symbol.
  - Fixed potential crash caused by bogus stray code in the GC marking
    function for syslog streams.
  - Fixed possible object leak in GC by managing free list in more
    disciplined way.



                                    TXR 143
                                   2016-06-04


  Features

  - Structs:
    - Structures can now support custom pretty-printing
      via a print method.
    - car, cdr, nullify, and from-list methods on structures allow
      them to behave as if they were sequences.
  - TXR Pattern language:
    - The "!command" and "$dir" convention for opening command pipe
      and directory steams has been removed: this will not be
      recognized on the command line or the @(next) or @(output)
      directives.
    - The "-" convention for denoting standard input is now
      only available from the command line, not from the @(next)
      or @(output) directives.
    - @(output) now evaluates the destination as a Lisp expression;
      no need to use the @ escape.
    - @(repeat) sees variables in more places:
      - In the output variable syntax @{a b [c..d]}, if b, c and d are
        variables, they are recognized by the directive and treated
        accordingly.
      - Previously @(repeat) would know about a, but have to be informed about
        the others via :vars (b c d).



                                    TXR 142
                                   2016-05-29


  Features

  - The remove-path funtion takes additional Boolean argument
    to suppress exception.
  - Better reporting of expansion locations across expansions
    of the op, do and related macros.
  - Support for deploying stand-alone executables.
  - Optimizations in hashing.
  - Support for byte-oriented stream operation instead of
    UTF-8 decoding.

  Bugs

  - Bugfix in clumped option processing: test case -B-c.
  - Uses of POSIX sleep function were removed. These occurred
    in tail streams implementation. This function can interact
    with the SIGALRM signal.
  - Fixed broken argument defaulting in take-until function.
  - Fixed regression from TXR 42 (!) in pattern
    function argument passing. This bug has evaded detection for
    100 public releases, over 4.5 years.
  - Added support for adherence to ISO C rules regarding switching
    between input and output operations on update streams,
    hiding this issue from TXR programs.  This seems to be needed
    on all tested platforms other than the GNU C library.



                                    TXR 141
                                   2016-05-20


  Features

  - Support for Unix terminal handling (termios).
  - New functions at-exit-call and at-exit-do-not-call, for registering
    actions to take when process exits.
  - New self-load-path symbol macro, allowing code to interpolate its load
    location.
  - Interactive listener now supports two behavioral styles of visual
    selection, controlled by new *listener-sel-inclusive-p* variable.

  Bugs

  - Incorrect argument defaulting in record-adapter function.
  - Incorrect argument handling in - and / functions,
    triggering error in [[flipargs -] 2 1]
  - Fixed gc-related bug in structs.
  - Fixed gc-related bug in recent cons recycling
    optimization.



                                    TXR 140
                                   2016-05-08


  Features

  - New fixnum-min and fixnum-max variables.
  - Improvements in pseudo-random number generator.
  - TXR extraction language:
    - New @(call fun ...) directive provides indirection on pattern
      functions, via symbols.
  - Unix security:
    - added setgroups, getresuid, getresgid, setresuid and
      setresgid where available.
    - added the setgroups function, where available.
    - added support for setgid operation.
    - New --rexec option to help with setuid on some platforms.
  - Process execution:
    - The standard input, output and error descriptors of subprocesses
      are now derived from the current *stdin*, *stdout* and *stderr*
      streams, making useful redirection tricks possible.
  - TXR now correctly calculates its sysroot even if the executable
    is renamed (within the same directory).
  - New filesystem access testing functions:
    path-readable-to-me-p, path-read-writable-to-me-p,
    path-strictly-private-to-me-p.

  Bugs

  - Serious bug fixed in bignum integers: incorrect treatment
    of negative values at the boundary between fixnum and bignum.
  - Fixed issue of TXR binary requiring an executable stack on
    GNU/Linux platforms.
  - Fixed broken setuid privilege dropping.
  - Bugfix in path-writable-to-me function.
  - Fixes in Vim syntax highlighting definition.
  - self-path, *args* and *args-full* now have bindings in
    the listener.



                                    TXR 139
                                   2016-04-23


  Features

  - Change of rules regarding Lisp variable visibility in TXR
    Pattern language.
  - unget-char now allows more than one character of pushback.
  - The POSIX fnmatch function is now available.
  - Rules used by object printer for deciding which character objects
    and string constituent characters to print using hex escapes
    have been harmonized together, with some changes to both.
  - path-private-to-me function avoids making unnecessary call
    to getgrgid, which is somewhat heavy-weight.
  - A list can now be passed as the path argument to the ftw
    function; it will recurse over it.

  Bugs

  - Issue of certain macros not expanding in @(output) blocks.
  - Macro not expanding as argument of @(if) directive.
  - Newline not being allowed in string fed to regex-parse.
  - Broken unget-char operation over string input streams.
  - Rewrite of horribly broken read-until-match function,
    which also fixes broken record streams feature
    (record-adapter function).
  - Fixed optional argument in get-string not defaulting
    properly.
  - Out of range character escapes are diagnosed better.
  - regex-parse was silently returning nil upon syntax
    errors; now throws exception.
  - regex-parse was not handling non-UTF-8 bytes in the
    string: are now mapped to U+DCXX block now and
    incorporated as literal characters.
  - Numerous memory leaks fixed which could occur in various
    functions if a type mismatch exception occurs after
    some local resource has already been allocated.



                                    TXR 138
                                   2016-04-16


  Features

  - New accessor sock-set-peer, and sock-peer becomes
    an accessor so (set (sock-peer sock) addr) is possible.
    - Allows "soft connected" datagram sockets:
      - send to different destinations with same socket
        by altering sock-peer address.
  - Dot position in function calls is now defined in terms
    of transformation to apply:
    - dot position expr can now be a symbol macro.
    - value of dot position is no longer applied as
      a list of arguments if it is a non-list sequence.
  - Better tracking of form expansion origins, leading to
    improvement in error diagnostics.
  - New fmt function for terse formatting to a string,
    shorthand for (format nil ...).
  - New open-socket-pair function, providing access to socketpair.
  - proper-listp function now known as proper-list-p.
    - old name still there, but deprecated.
  - New obtain* and obtain*-block macros.
  - New ftw function for fire tree walking, providing access to POSIX nftw.

  Bugs

  - Fixed issue in the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode strings, which TXR
    uses when calling API's that require char * strings:
    - U+DC00 pseudo-null produces the NUL character, which appears
      to terminate the char * string even if more characters follow,
      which is a problem.
    - Now, if U+DC00 occurs in a string that is being converted
      to UTF-8, an exception is thrown.
  - "Abstract" UNIX socket addresses properly supported on Linux.
  - defstruct:
    - now diagnoses use of nonexistent struct as supertype.
    - also fixed some minor diagnostic issues in defstruct.
  - symbol macros:
    - replacement forms were wrongly being expanded at bind time, and then
      possibly again at sustitution time.
    - now replacement forms are only macro-expanded during substitution.
  - glob function:
    - error callback hardened against continuation capture,
      absconding exits and re-entry of glob.
    - non-local exits allowed from error callback.
    - possible memory leak fixed.
  - Access to lib-version variable wasn't triggering its auto-load.
  - Fixed broken argument handling in umethod, also affecting
    umeth macro.
  - Invalid open mode strings in socket functions now diagnosed.
  - Fixed broken error handling in datagram case of sock-accept.
  - Source files processed by the load function, @(load) directive
    or by invocation of txr are now closed immediately after parsing.
  - TXR language:
    - fixed bug in data source opening logic leading to a mishandling
      of a case like @(bind x "a")text at top of script.



                                    TXR 137
                                   2016-03-30


  Features

  - Heads up: @(if) directive changes semantics.
    - no longer a syntactic sugar for @(cases)/@(require).
  - Rightmost-match variants added for various search
    functions: rfind, rpos, rmember and numerous others.
  - New macro lset for assigning consecutive elements of
    a sequence to multiple places.

  Bugs

  - Fix in lazy string implementation:
    - printing lazy string was not observing the string's limit
    - see limit-count param in lazy-str function.
  - Fix in error location reporting across macro expansions.



                                    TXR 136
                                   2016-03-20


  Features

  - I/O stream mode handling improvements:
    - "i" interactive mode specifies line buffering
    - New "l" and "u" mode letters for specifying line buffered
      and unbuffered mode on streams.
    - Decimal digit character in mode string specifies stream
      buffer size as a binary exponent with implicit 1024 multiplier.
    - Mode strings have a more permissive syntax; everything
      is optional with defaulting based on stream type.
  - Sockets:
    - sock-connect returns socket instead of useless t value.
    - New functions sock-recv-timeout and sock-send-timeout
      for setting the timeout options on socket.
      - I/O timeouts throw exception of type timeout-error
    - sock-connect and sock-accept have new parameter for
      timing out.
    - socket open mode is r+b by default, not r+.
  - TXR Extraction Language:
    - @(output) destination can be a stream object now
    - @(repeat) and @(rep) can now bind new variables, via
      extension to :vars syntax and semantics.

  Bugs

  - unget-byte sets errno to zero to avoid false errno
    association with failure.
  - Bugfix in @(repeat)/@(rep) internals: destructive manipulation of lists.
  - Tail streams honor all aspects of mode for re-opened
    stdio streams.



                                    TXR 135
                                   2016-03-10


  Features

  - The umask function is now provided.
  - Special new stream type for datagram sockets, allowing
    datagram programming to be very similar to and in some cases
    identical to stream socket programming.
  - A nil value in setenv now does unsetenv.
  - Improvements in sockets:
    - printed representation of sockets.
    - error messages.
    - error handling.

  Bugs

  - The get-string function closing a stream when told not to via a
    nil value of the close-after-p optional argument.
  - The setenv function had a similar bug, ignoring the overwrite-p optional
    argument being passed as nil.
  - Fixed cases of an incorrect error string from file streams returned by
    get-error-string.
  - Fixed gc-related instability caused by mishandling a field in an internal
    parser structure with regard to the ephemeral gc rules.



                                    TXR 134
                                   2016-03-01


  Features

  - Unhandled exceptions now unwind; so programs which terminate due
    to an unhandled exception have their cleanup performed.
  - Setuid support:
    - A setuid TXR executable supports setuid TXR scripts, even if
      the underlying OS doesn't allow setuid scripts.
    - When not running a setuid script, the setuid TXR executable
      drops privileges early in its execution, reducing the
      risk that it can be exploited.
  - New --eargs option, allows script name to be embedded among options
    in a hash bang line.
  - Networking support: TXR now supports IPv4, IPv6 and Unix socket
    communication.
  - Useful @(next nil) variant of @(next) directive to suppress unwanted
    treatment of a command line argument as a data source.
  - New functions expand-left and nexpand-left.

  Bugs

  - Expressions in @(require) were not being evaluated in the
    correct context.
  - Fixed destructive append behavior in append-each.



                                    TXR 133
                                   2016-01-21


  Features

  - New function, split*; like split* but keep empty pieces.
  - New function random-state-get-vec to get vector representation
    of random state.
  - vec-list now takes sequences as inputs, not just lists.
  - New functions base64-encode and base64-decode.

  Bugs

  - Bug in env-hash with values containing equal sign.
  - Bugfixes in partition* function.
  - More robust handling of invalid modulus values in rand
    and random.
  - Internal fixes in rand and random.
  - Serious regression in get-char on string input streams.
  - Missing syntax highlighting for some TXR symbols.
  - Bug in signal handling (synchronizing cached signal mask with
    OS signal mask) causing signals to be ignored after jumping
    out of a signal handling lambda with a dynamic control transfer.



                                    TXR 132
                                   2016-01-16


  Features

  - Unix crypt function exposed.
  - The identity function gets an alias named "use", for a
    readability improvement in certain functional coding scenarios.
  - The / function becomes n-ary, allowing forms like (/ 12 3 4).
  - New :mandatory keyword in until/last clauses, makes them a
    required match.

  Bugs

  - Fixed lack of location info for unbound variable error in dohash.
  - *print-flo-format* variable was affecting output of integers.
  - @(gather :vars ()) was behaving the same as @(gather); that is,
    as if :vars wasn't specified at all.



                                    TXR 131
                                   2016-01-13


  Bugs

  - Configuration with --valgrind now builds again.
  - Invalid lazy string optimization introduced in TXR 118
    has been re-worked. This affects the conformance of
    the @(freeform) directive to documentation.
  - When a macro declines to perform an expansion by
    returning the :form, the form was recorded as its own
    macro ancestor; now, nothing is recorded.
  - Fixed issues in how regex objects are printed:
    - Control characters and certain other characters were
      being dumped literally.
    - Now certain characters like newline print using
      the escape codes like \n.
    - Other control characters, as well as U+7F (ASCII DEL)
      and characters in the U+DCXX surrogate range are
      printed as hex codes.
    - [ and ] in a character class are properly escaped.
  - Fixed issue in string literals: semicolon character
    effectively disappearing after control character that
    is converted to hex escape.



                                    TXR 130
                                   2016-01-05


  Features

  - Interactive listener:
    - New Ctrl-X Enter command: submit line, but stay in history
      and advance forward by one line.
  - I/O:
    - New record-adapter function creates a "stream adapter" virtual
      stream object based on an existing stream.
      - The adapter changes the semantics of get-line to support
        delimiting of records via a regular expression (which is stored
        in the adapter), rather than the newline character.
      - With this, TXR can now process streams delimited in alternative
        was as if they were line-oriented.
    - New read-until-match function: extract characters from a stream,
      accumulated into a string, until a match for a regex occurs in
      that stream, and discard the match.
  - OOP:
    - In defstruct, function slots now initialized before other static
      slots regardless of order of specifiers.
  - Library:
    - New chr-digit and chr-xdigit functions: like chr-isdigit and
      chr-isxdigit, but returning the digit value instead of the
      t symbol.

  Bugs

  - Interactive listener:
    - Fixed recent regression in Tab completion: missing completion on special
      operators and macros.
    - Fixed Ctrl-X commands not recognized in a history search.
  - OOP:
    - Access to static slots of a lazy struct was triggering
      instantiation; this is fixed.
  - Library:
    - Recent change in chr-isdigit and chr-isxdigit return value
      semantics has been reverted, due to potentially breaking code
      which relies on (eql (chr-isdigit #\0) (chr-isdigit #\1)).



                                    TXR 129
                                   2015-12-30


  Features

  - TXR pattern language:
    - @(line) directive now works in horizontal mode
    - New @(data) and @(name) directives for capturing/matching
      raw data, and name of data source.
    - :counter in @(repeat)/@(rep) can now be given a starting value.
    - Quasiliterals in the pattern language are now evaluated as Lisp
      quasiliterals.
      - the compatibility mechanism provides the previous evaluation mode.
    - The same applies to @(output): variables now follow Lisp rules,
      similarly to variables in quasiliterals.
    - @(repeat) and @(rep) now "see" Lisp globals; no need to list these
      using :vars.
  - Lisp library:
    - chr-isdigit and chr-isxdigit now return the integer digit value
      when the test is true, rather than just t.
  - Object printing:
    - Lazy strings are now printed in a reasonable way, not shortened
      to the #<lazy-string ...> notation.
    - New special variales for global control over how floating-point
      objects are rendered: *print-flo-format* and *print-fo-format*.
  - OOP:
    - with-slots macro added.
  - Yet improved location and macro ancestry tracing in unhandled
    exception diagnostics.

  Bugs

  - Vim syntax highlighting files: fixed regression in genvim.txr
    causing missing identifiers.
  - Four-year-old bug in @(collect)/@(coll) fixed, causing the
    @(last)/@(until) clauses to be evaluated with an empty list
    of variable bindings whenever the main clause fails.
  - Fixed exception in @(freeform) directive when scanning from
    an interactive input stream.
  - Bugfixes in pattern language debug tracing (-v).



                                    TXR 128
                                   2015-12-19


  Features

  - Further refinement of function and macro coexistence:
    - symbol-function, fboundp and fmakunbound operate only on function
      binding.
    - new symbol-macro function.
  - The :whole and :form parameters now accept a destructuring parameter
    list as their argument, no longer insisting on nothing but a symbol.
  - OOP:
    - defstruct now supports a :postinit slot specifier, which allows
      additional actions to be taken after an object is constructed, and the
      slots are fully initialized.
    - make-struct-type has a new argument related to the above change:
      a <postinitfun> function.
  - Place manipulation macros now propagate ancestry information from
    the place forms on which they operate to the generate place-accessing
    operations, as if those operations were macro-expansions of the places.
    (Which they are not, at least not exactly). The benefit is that errors in
    those place access operations can consequently be traced to the original
    place forms, for more meaningful diagnosis.
  - dot notation like a.b.c now prints back as a.b.c rather than
    (qref a b c).
  - Doc:
    - HTML section numbers are now hyperlinks which jump back to the
      right place in the table of contents.
    - On jump-back, the table of contents expands sufficiently to
      reveal the target entry, if that is not already showing.

  Bugs

  - Fixed incorrect behavior of (replace seq val nil), also affecting
    replace-list, replace-vec and replace-str. The nil was wrongly
    treated as as a zero <from> argument (acting in complement to a
    missing <to> denoting the end of seq), instead of an empty <idx-list>.
  - Fixed broken assignment to [h x] when h is a hash and x is a vector
    or list.
  - Fixed dot syntax like a.b not recording source location info into
    the (qref ...) form when its constituents are atoms, such as symbols.
  - Fixed neglect to propagate macro ancestry information across
    non-macro code transformations.
  - Fixed situations in which the debugger fails to report the
    source file and line number.
  - Fixed annoying debugger behavior of stepping through the macro expansion
    time evaluations of a query by making that behavior subject to
    a new option (--debug-expansions). Debugger will now stop on
    the first line of the TXR language query like it used to.



                                    TXR 127
                                   2015-12-10


  Features

  - OOP:
    - defun can define methods now, using a compound naming syntax,
      as alternative to defmeth.
    - func-get-name function works on methods and produces compound name.
    - defmeth returns compound name, and so does defun when defining a method.
    - improved semantics in static-slot-ensure
  - Large file support: TXR now uses 64 bit file offsets in functions like
    seek-stream and truncate on Linux platforms where this is
    a compile-time switch.
  - regex-range now returns a range object.
  - Macros:
    - Improvements in macro expansion tracing for unhandled
      exceptions, or those caught in the REPL.
    - New macro-ancestor function for programmatically retrieving
      the form from which a given form was derived by macro expansion.
    - New mboundp and mmakunbound functions for inquiring
      about and removing a global operator macro binding.
    - Global operator macros can now coexist with functions of the
      same name.
  - Doc:
    - HTML man page now has a collapsible table of contents, thanks
      to Javascript embedded in the document.
    - Sections have been reorganized.
    - Smattering of corrections.

  Bugs

  - Fixed new struct types failing to inherit static slots that
    were added to ancestor types using implicit or explicit use of
    ensure-static-slot (such as methods defined outside of defstruct).
  - Fixes to the anaphoric ifa macro: the condition can be a dwim form, and
    with special handling.
  - Fixed incorrectly implemented less comparison for range objects.
  - Fixed crash in get-line when invoked on a closed file stream.
  - Fixed ftruncate not being detected and used on Solaris.



                                    TXR 126
                                   2015-11-29


  Features

  - New functions window-map and window-mappend for filtering sequences
    with a sliding window context surrounding the current element.
  - New macro define-accessor for easily extending functions
    to be accessors (supporting assignment).
  - Diagnostics for unhandled exceptions, and those caught in the REPL,
    now include a detail trace of the macro-expansion which created the
    form in which they originate.
  - Increased stack size on Windows (MinGW and Cygwin).

  Bugs

  - Regression in super function: when called with a struct instance, was
    returning its type rather than supertype.
  - Incorrect behavior (failure) in split and partition functions when index
    argument is a function, and returns nil.
  - Fixed regression in transpose function, causing it to be destructive.
  - Fixed sethash: it was returning a boolean rather than the stored value,
    as documented.
  - Improved clarity of error messages which identify destructuring mismatches
    in macro calls and macro-like binding constructs.
  - Fixed poorly informative diagnostic when defmeth is used on a nonexistent
    struct type.



                                    TXR 125
                                   2015-11-20


  Features

  - OOP improvements:
    - New uslot function and usl macro for functional indirection
      on struct slots.
    - New functors feature: define a lambda method for struct types
      which lets structs be invokd as function.
    - Lazy structs feature:
      - New lnew macro (and make-lazy-struct function) for lazily
        instantiating a new structure.
      - Self-referential, and mutually referential structures can
        be instantiated in one step using the existing mlet and
        lnew.
    - New Equality Substitution feature:
      - An equal method defined on a struct type allows objects to
        to be compared with equal or less, and to be hashed with hash-equal
        (and thus :equal-based hash tables).
      - The method simply returns an object which is used in place of
        the struct for the purpose of the comparison or hash.
  - TXR Extraction Language:
    - @(rep) now available as shorthand for @(coll :vars nil)
    - In @(next source), source can be a Lisp expression without leading @.
    - :to_html and :from_html filters now called :tohml and :fromhtml;
      old names will continue to work.
    - :tohtml filter now also translates ' (ASCII 39 apostrophe) to &#39;.
    - New :tohtml* filter, leaves quotes alone.
  - New butlast function.
  - New html-encode* function.
  - The last function is generic now, applying to strings and vectors.
  - New TXR_COMPAT environment variable, alternative to -C option.

  Bugs

  - Fixed missing autoload registration for meth, umeth and defmeth symbols.
  - Fixed spurious retention issues in various library functions like
    mapdo, preventing them from processing lazy lists in constant memory.
  - Fixed type hole in the equal function, which treated two COBJ objects of
    different types using a comparison function which assumes they are both
    of the same type.
  - Fixed buggy less function, which was comparing and ranking objects that
    should not be comparable according to the documentation.



                                    TXR 124
                                   2015-11-14


  Features

  - New iread function for reading an object from a stream
    in an interactive-friendly way.
  - Median-of-three pivot selection added to quicksort to
    avoid degenerate cases.
  - Scoping rule for implicit nil block in the for operator
    has changed: the block now surrounds the variable
    initialization forms.
  - New block* operator and functions return* and sys:abscond*,
    which allow blocks to be defined and referenced
    using symbols computed at run-time.
  - New function group-reduce for flexible decimation of a sequence
    to a hash table.
  - The (rcons x y) syntax is printed as x..y now.
  - nreverse handles strings and vectors now, and reverses them in place.
  - reverse handles vectors and strings in more efficient way,
    and can reverse lazy strings.
  - Functions revappend and nreconc added.
  - New *print-flo-precision* special variable for controlling precision
    applied when printing floating point objects.
  - New *print-base* special variable for controlling base in which
    integer objects are printed. (Only binary, octal, decimal and hex
    are supported.)

  Bugs

  - Fixed object printer throwing exceptions when meeting unexpected syntax
    in forms that have special printed notation like quote and whatnot.
    The correct behavior is to avoid the notation and print the raw syntax.
  - Fixed ~o format specifier, broken with respect to bignum operands
    in TXR 120, when ~b was introduced.



                                    TXR 123
                                   2015-11-06


  Bugs

  - Fixed regression introduced in TXR 115, in the search_regex
    function and functionality built on it.



                                    TXR 122
                                   2015-11-05


  Features

  - New type: range.
    - range is similar to a cons cell, but is an atom.
    - has two fields called from and to.
    - the dotdot syntax a..b  now produces a range, not a cons.
    - printed notation looks like #R(0 10)
    - related functions: rcons, rangep, from, to.

  - sys:capture-cont API altered to call/cc style: passes
    continuation to specified function when capturing,
    returns value when resuming.

  - New interface to delimited continuations: suspend macro.

  - TXR pattern variables now appear dynamic to embedded Lisp
    expressions, rather than lexical. The scoping rule is
    documented.

  - The yield and yield-from operators can omit the argument
    form, in which case they retrieve the value passed in from
    the resume function without yielding an item.

  - Architecture support: Power PC 64.



                                    TXR 121
                                   2015-10-30



  Features

  - TXR Lisp now has delimited continuations.
    - easy to use via obtain/yield macro operators.
  - New function truncate-stream for truncating files.
  - Reduced stack usage on glibc systems by shrinking unwind
    frames, achieved by replacing the 128 byte wide sigset_t
    type with a much smaller type.
  - The way place macros are expanded has improved, making
    them more useful.
  - Macro parameter lists have a :form keyword now for capturing
    the whole form.

  Bugs

  - Implemented missing second argument of zap macro.
  - Assignment to *listener-hist-len* in ~/.txr_profile was not
    correctly taking effect prior to loading history, causing
    truncation to 100 lines.
  - Fixed typo causing with-hash-iter macro not to autoload.
  - Fixed crash in hash-next.


                                    TXR 120
                                   2015-10-18


  Features

  - Structs:
    - Finalizers (specified by :fini) are now registered early in the
      object initialization (at a given inheritance level). This allows
      finalizers to clean up abandoned initializations.
    - If initialization of a struct is abandoned, the finalizers are invoked
      immediately, as part of unwinding.
    - New defmeth macro for defining methods outside of a defstruct.
    - New static-slot-ensure function for adding a new static slot to
      a struct (and its inheritance descendants).
    - static-slot and static-slot-set can take struct type name in place of
      struct type.
  - New functions hash-begin and hash-next, for iterating hash table,
    and with-hash-iter macro.
  - Listener:
    - TXR now launches listener if no arguments are given.
  - Exceptions:
    - New way of handling exceptions without unwinding: handler-bind and
      handle operators.
    - Introspection over exception frames: get-frames and find-frame
      functions can inquire about frames, and invoke-catch can transfer
      control to a chosen catch frame.
  - New ~b conversion specifier in format function for printing integers
    in binary.
  - The typecase macro has been added, similar to Common Lisp's.
  - Some functions have been renamed for consistency, but remain available
    under old names: list-vector -> list-vec, vector-list -> vec->list,
    chr-num -> chr-int, num-chr -> int-chr.
  - The sh function isn't implemented using the C library function
    system any more.

  Bugs

  - Fixed use of nonexistent functions in error handling cases
    of defstruct macro.
  - Fixed bug in the overflow check in the chk_grow_vec function,
    used by string-extend, the get-line function of many stream types,
    and string output streams.
  - Fixed unterminated format argument list issue affecting interactive
    listener. (Reproduced on Mac OS/X).



                                    TXR 119
                                   2015-10-10


  Features

  - Interactive listener:
    - New Ctrl-X Ctrl-R to insert entire previous line.
    - Word/Atom from previous line works relative to recalled history line.
    - New Ctrl-X Tab for substring-searching completion.
  - Empty loops can be interrupted by signals: (for () () ()) is now
    interruptible at the interactive prompt.
  - New umethod and umeth function for indirecting on a method in a way
    that is detached from an object instance.
  - Boa construction of structures can have optional arguments now.
  - copy and copy-str now copy lazy strings as lazy strings, rather
    than forcing to regular string.
  - New functions for sequence manipulation: take, take-while, take-until,
    drop, drop-while, drop-until.
  - New function ginterate for lazy generation which includes the terminating
    item.
  - New function expand-right for lazily generating a sequence in a roughly
    opposite way to a reduce-right reduction.
  - New function call-finalizers for explicitly invoking and clearing the
    registered GC finalizers for an object.
  - New functions clear-struct and reset-struct for clearing all slots
    of a structure to nil, or reinitializing a struct to default values,
    respective.
  - New function replace-struct for changing and slot contents and type
    of a struct to match an example object.
  - Missing promisep function added to test whether an object is a promise
    created by the delay macro.
  - New defex macro, to define exception subtype relationships out of TXR Lisp.
    (Previously available only in the TXR pattern language).
    - Also useful surrounding functions: exception-subtype-p,
    register-exception-subtype.
  - New macros for working with streams in lexical scopes:
    with-out-string-stream, with-out-strlist-stream with-in-string-stream,
    with-in-string-byte-stream, with-stream.
  - New with-objects macro for scoped finalization of objects,
    somewhat like destruction in C++.
  - Vim syntax highlighting file sets "lispwords" option for
    more accurate indentation of TXR Lisp.

  Bugs

  - Fixed symbol-function throwing error on builtin macros.
  - macro-time is now special-operator-p.
  - Named block around bodies of methods and functions declared
    in defstruct.
  - slot-p renamed to slotp (old name supported in compatibility mode).
  - Bug in structure initialization: boa arguments were applied first,
    before other initialiations, rather than last.
  - The conses function works on vectors and strings.



                                    TXR 118
                                   2015-10-01


  Features

  - Interactive listener:
    - Parentheses matching jump (Ctrl-]) now finds the closest parenthesis,
      bracket or brace if the cursor isn't on one already.
    - Tab completion recognizes .( and (( context in front of symbol
      being completed, and doesn't restrict to function names.
    - Parenthesis-matching "jump" is now performed on backspace also,
      if cursor lands on or next to a parenthesis.
    - Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E (or Home and End) keys have now have a useful behavior
      in multi-line mode, allowing a jump to the start/end of the current line
      as well as start/end of the edit buffer.

  - Optimizations in regular expressions:
    - In particular, prefix matches involving the complement operator now
      indicate termination rather than wastefully consuming the remainder of
      the string.
    - Algebraic reductions performed on regexes. In some cases, these
      reduce an expression which contains exotic operators such that it
      can be compiled to NFA.

  - Structures:
    - Structures can now have static slots: slots shared among all instances
      of the same type (but not other types, not even derived types).
    - Static slots are now the preferred the basis for implementing functions
      and methods.
    - The defstruct syntax has a richer syntax which lets static slots
      be expressed, as well as methods.
    - Construction and finalization code can be specified in defstruct.
    - Many new functions related to structures.

  - Optimization in lazy strings: forcing lazy strings is more efficient.

  - String input streams do not force lazy strings now.

  - The "matches nothing" regular expression represented in the
    abstract syntax by the object t now handled by regex printer,
    and rendered as [].

  Bugs

  - Fixed a silly delete-previous-word behavior in multi-line mode:
    not treating the line-break as a whitespace character that separates words.

  - Fixed various problems in screen update and cursor positioning behavior in
    interactive listener, affecting multi-line mode.

  - Fixed two bugs in the ifa/conda macros.

  - The return and return-from operators do not abort TXR when a label is not
    found, but properly throw an exception.

  - Garbage collection: if GC is triggered in response to a malloc
    delta, a full GC is now performed. This prevents runaway memory
    allocation behavior in code which manipulates large arrays, strings
    or integers.

  - Fixed strangely compounded error message issued in the situation that
    unbound variables occur in the TXR pattern language.

  - Various "internal error" situations in the regex module now throw
    exceptions. Consequently, TXR will not die if a bad abstract syntax
    tree is passed to the regex compiler.

  - Regex printer was throwing an exception when printing a character
    class containing \w, \s or \d.



                                    TXR 117
                                   2015-09-23


  Features

  - Interactive listener improvements:
    - Visual selection of text, with copy and paste:
      Ctrl-S, Ctrl-Q, Ctrl-X Ctrl-Q, Ctr-^.
    - Undo feature with separate undo per history line.
    - Security checks on ~/.txr_profile permissions.
    - Location reporting when exceptions caught.
    - Syntax errors pinpointed to line in multi-line entry.
    - Ctrl-X Ctrl-V "super verbatim" mode.
    - Temp file used by Ctrl-X Ctrl-E has .tl suffix now for
      correct syntax highlighting.
    - Ctrl-X <n> Ctrl-W: insert word from previous line.
    - Ctrl-X <n> Ctrl-A: insert atom from previous line
    - Delete to beginning of line or to end of line now limited
      to current physical line in multi-line mode.
    - Ctrl-X Ctrl-K to delete current physical line.
    - Visual Parenthesis matching works forward now as well as reverse.
    - Ctrl-] jump to matching parenthesis.

  - Unix group database functions added: getgrgid, getgrnam, getgrent.

  - New path-private-to-me-p function to detect whether a file
    is writable to users other than the owner.

  - New flatcar and flatcar* functions. Variants of flatten which
    handle improper lists and preserve nil atoms.

  Bugs

  - Correct tab alignment in multi-line.

  - Fixed screen untidiness on Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-C in multi-line mode.

  - sub function and [] indexing were not handling lazy string objects.

  - sub-str wasn't handling defaulted optional arguments correctly for
    lazy strings.



                                    TXR 116
                                   2015-09-17


  Features

  * Interactive listener improvements:
    * Ctrl-R reverse search has been implemented.
    * Tab completion now works anywhere in a line, not only
      at the very end.
    * Parenthesis matching: cursor jumps briefly to matching bracket,
      brace or parenthesis.
    * Multi-line mode, with proper history support for
      lines containing embedded line breaks.
    * Ctrl-C cleanly cancels completion, and navigation keys
      smoothly transition from completion to edit mode.
    * Ctrl-X Ctrl-E edits line in external editor.
    * Ctrl-Z suspend and Ctrl-L clear work in completion mode.
    * New :read command for parsing pasted material from terminal.
    * Dynamic resizing of the terminal is now obeyed (SIGWINCH signal).
    * A ~/.txr_profile file is now read on interactive start-up,
      and Lisp forms are evaluated from it.
    * multi-line mode and history length are configurable via special
      variables.

  * Removed arbitrary limit on regular expression size (number of states).

  * Small regexes are processed with a smaller memory footprint due to
    exact allocation of certain arrays and stack allocation is used
    in some cases instead of malloc.

  Bugs

  * Fixed memory leak of blank lines in listener.

  * Comment lines entered into the listener do not produce a syntax
    error and are entered into history.

  * Fixed memory leak in NFA regular expressions.

  * Fixed a counter wraparound bug in NFA regular expressions, resulting
    in incorrect operation after 4.2 billion state transitions (2**32
    characters fed to the same regular expression, whether in a single
    job or across multiple jobs.)

  * Addressed some minor issues in unwinding and signal handling.



                                    TXR 115
                                   2015-09-11


  Features

  * Sixth anniversary edition!

  * New REPL on Unix platforms: an interactive listener with line editing,
    history recall, completion and exception/interrupt trapping.
    This is started with "txr -i".

  * Improvements in error reporting.

  * New function, raise, for raising a signal, eliminating
    the (kill (getpid) sig) workaround.

  * New functions subtypep and typep for testing subtype relationships
    between types, and between an object and a type.

  * New abstract types usable in conjunction with subtypep and typep.
    For instance, integer and number are types. A fixnum is a subtype
    of integer, which is a subtype of number. Type hiearchy documented in
    detail.

  * The printed representation of function objects is much more
    informative than before.

  * The variable *args* is now not only bound when evaluating Lisp
    expressions from the command line (with -e and related options)
    but it is also modifiable.  Command line expressions can rewrite the
    remaining arguments by updating *args* and these arguments
    instantly take effect.

  * Some section restructuring in the documentation.

  * New functions for working with package objects: package-alist,
    package-name, package-symbols.

  Bugs

  - Fixed serious problem in implementation of signal handling:
    the function to manipulate the signal mask in a cached way
    wasn't actually calling into the OS to set the real signal mask.

  - Fixed another serious problem in signal handling: a Lisp function
    throwing an exception out of a signal handler would cause an
    imbalance in an internal signal reentry counter, causing later
    signal handling to stop working properly.

  - Fixed an assertion occurring in the Flex-generated scanner if the parsing
    of a stream is aborted by an exception, and then the parser is called
    again.

  - Fixed regression dating back to TXR 105: the TXR pattern language
    failing to use a "real-time" stream for standard input, when it
    is a TTY, thus breaking the specials upport for pattern matching
    into interactive input.

  - Removed an accidentally committed debug print, producing output
    in situations when a function is called with the wrong number of arguments.

  - Fixed (eval 'sym) reporting the unbound variable sym against the wrong
    source code location.

  - Fixed random state objects being of type *random-state* rather than
    of random-state. The earmuffed symbol was never intended.

  - The accessors fun, symbol-function and symbol-value were completely
    broken for use as syntactic places.

  - Fixed multiple evaluation of the slot argument when slot used as
    syntactic place accessor: (inc (slot x y)) now evaluates y only once,
    just like x.

  - Fixed another gaping bug in the finalization hook mechanism: objects
    being promoted into the tenured generation had their finalizers
    called while still remaining reachable.

  - Fixed the self-path variable not being bound when evaluating Lisp code from
    a .tl file or command line arguments like -e.

  - Fixed *args* not being bound when evaluating Lisp expressions from
    the command line with -e and related options.

  - Fixed missing :tointeger filter. It was actually registered under the
    misspelled keyword symbol :toinger, and never existed as :tointeger.
    It has actually been renamed to :toint.


                                    TXR 114
                                   2015-09-03


  Features

  ! Note: TXR code base converted to new way of handling variadic function
    (variable-length struct args, defined on stack).

  * New function shuffle: Fisher-Yates/Knuth on lists and vectors.

  * Numerous documentation improvements.

  * Improved diagnostic in situations when an error exception is
    thrown at code parse time, pinpointing file and line number.

  * New feature: structs! TXR now has typed data structures with named
    slots. Structures can be related by single inheritance, and
    single-dispatch OOP is easily expressed.

  * stat, lstat and fstat functions return a stat structure now.

  * New functions: time-struct-local and time-struct-utc return
    a structure instead of a list of fields.

  * Unix password database functions: getpwent, getpwuid, getpwnam.

  Bugs

  * Fixed regression: broken treatment of [hash x..y] place.

  * Fixed finalize function, which was found to be fundamentally broken.
    Advertized as a new feature in TXR 101, it now actually works.



                                    TXR 113
                                   2015-08-20


  Features

  ! Note: txr builds and works with Berkeley Yacc again.

  ! Note: txr is starting to make use of the alloca function.

  * regex-parse function allows unescaped slashes and treats them
    as verbatim characters, in recognition of slash delimiting being
    needed only by regex literals.

  * Better argument number mismatch reporting in certain indirect
    function call situations.

  Bugs

  * Serious quasiquote regression fixed (from TXR 110): function call
    syntax interpolated into a quasiliteral not working for TXR pattern
    language quasiliterals, when the function is called with exactly
    one argument; e.g. @(bind x `abc @(list 1)`).

  * Serious parser problem fixed affecting Lisp code being read from
    streams. The wrong kind of weak hash table was used to associate
    parsers and streams, causing a disruption when garbage collection
    kicks in, precipitating a false syntax error.

  * Nested meta-variable references now work in quasiliterals.  If a
    quasiliteral is nested in two layers of op syntax, it can use notation
    like @@@1 and @@@rest to reach the outer parameters, and so on.

  * Minor spurious retention issues addressed (garbage collection).

  * Numerous markup errors fixed in documentation (thanks to
    Dave Love of Fedora Project).



                                    TXR 112
                                   2015-08-14


  Features

  ! Note: the ChangeLog is discontinued. Description of changes, going
    forward, is maintained in git commit messages only, in a hybrid format
    which conforms to ChangeLog and git conventions at the same time.

  ! Note: txr doesn't work correctly if parse.y is built with Byacc.
    GNU Bison must be used. This will be addressed in the next release,
    hopefully.

  - Support for display width concept: identifying Unicode characters which
    occupy two print positions on tty-like display and printing devices.
    - Indentation, and field formatting in the format function obey display
      width, rather than naive string length.
    - The new display-width function calculates the display width of
      characters and strings.

  - The a..b syntax is slightly revised; it can occur outside of a list now,
    and in the terminating position of a dotted list. It correctly associates,
    so that a..b..c denotes (cons a (cons b c)).

  - New function clamp for clamping numeric and other values to a range.

  - New "qref dot" syntax: a dot flanked by expressions and no whitespace
    denotes a new syntatic sugar such that a.b.c.d denotes the form
    (qref a b c d), and a.b.(x y).z denotes (qref a b (x y) z).
    However, this qref syntax has no assigned meaning yet (coming soon).

  Bugs

  - Regression in format function introduced in 111 is addressed: geneating
    superfluous left padding when formatting non-numeric fields.

  - Bad consing dot syntax like (a . b c) and (a . b . c)
    is properly diagnosed instead of silently producing
    strange (though consistent) results.

  - Tokens with a package prefix but empty name like abc: are correctly
    handled now by interning a symbol with the name "" (empty string)
    in the given package.

  - Fixed some minor bugs in lexical analysis of floating-point constants:
    actual behavior was interpreting as valid certain forms that were
    documented as erroneous.

  - Fixed stream close bug in catenated streams.



                                    TXR 111
                                   2015-08-08


  Features

  - Nested structural objects (list structure, vectors, hashes) are now printed
    with line breaks and indentation.

  - Introducing global lexical variables, introduced with defvar
    and defparml. Global lexicals are not marked special, and so local
    bindings of the same symbols are ordinary lexicals and not dynamic.

  - Numerous variables in the library are now global lexical rather than special.

  - pi and e are now provided as %pi% and %e%, global lexical.
    The *pi* and *e* specials are retained, and obsolescent.

  - New hash-revget function for reverse lookup through hash tables.

  - New function func-get-name for obtaining name from function.

  - New ~! format directive for controlling hanging indentation.

  - format conversions now support ^ character for centering within
    a field.

  - Output streams now support indentation. This is used by the object
    printer and by the ~! format directive, and also exposed by
    a group of new functions like set-indent-mode.

  - TXR Lisp documentation sections re-arranged for better organization,
    and other improvements in documentation.

  - Improvements in matching error exceptions to source code location,
    and some other diagnostic improvements.

  - New wrapper functions for Unix lstat and fstat for inquiring about the
    properties of symbolic links, and open files.

  - New Unix wrappers for uid/gid functions: getuid, setuid, etc.

  - New functions for conveniently testing for file existence, type, ownership
    and permission, and relative age.

  - Debugger won't step into auto-loaded library code now, unless
    requested with new --debug-autoload command line option.

  Bugs

  - Fixed parsing bug in txr-case macro: throwing error on correct syntax.

  - Discovered that an object initialization pattern believed to be
    correct is flawed in the face of generational GC. Fixed instances
    in hashing and regex module.

  - Documented special variable *args-full* is now actually implemented.
    It was implemented as *full-args*, which is retained, but obsolescent.

  - Operations on an output string stream which overflow throw
    exception instead of returning nil.

  - Fixed incorrect handling of negative field widths in format,
    when specified dynamically via *.



                                    TXR 110
                                   2015-07-25


  Features

  - New relational predicate functions hash-subset and hash-proper-subset.

  - New functions hash-from-pairs and hash-list.

  - Improvements in quasiliterals:
    - compound @@ now supported on numbers and symbols, improving utility of
      quasiliterals in multiply nested op syntax.
    - \@ escape introduced for encoding literal @ in quasiliterals.
    - @<num> notation allowed in brace variables (more of a bugfix).

  - Optional trailing semicolon punctuator supported on hex and octal
    characters in string and quasiliterals, like it already is on hex and octal
    characters in the TXR pattern language.

  - The op syntax positional arguments @1, @2 ... and @rest are now
    syntactic places: they can be assigned, etc.

  - Powerful new binding macros placelet and placelet* for creating lexical
    aliases for syntactic places with once-evaluation semantics.

  - The "it" variable in the anaphoric ifa is now a place if the form that
    it denotes is a place. The place is evaluated exactly once no matter how
    many times the it variable is accessed or updated in its scope.

  - Hash-bang support in .tl files.

  - With only a few sensible exceptions, most unimplemented stream operations
    now throw exceptions, rather than silently doing nothing.

  - Improved printed representation of stream objects.

  - New split function similar to partition, but keeps empty subsequences.

  - Deletion of a (cdr ...) place now has different semantics, symmetric
    with deletion of a (car ...) place.

  - The accessors caar, cadr, cdar, cddr, ... are all provided now, in
    all combinations down to five levels deep.

  - The functions second, third, fourth, ... are all accessors now,
    and are provided up through tenth. They work with vectors and strings.

  - New feature, "place macros": special macro expansions which apply
    only to syntactic place forms, making it a cinch to define
    to define new places in situations when they are expressible as a
    syntactic transformation to existing places.

  - The nthcdr function from Common Lisp is introduced, with the
    added functionality that it behaves like an accessor.

  - New with-resources macro for block-scoped acquisition and release
    of multiple resources.

  - Backslash-newline continuation in word list listerals (WLL-s) and
    quasiword list literals (QLL-s) now separates words. An unescaped
    newline is not allowed.

  Bugs

  - TXR 97 regression in quasiliterals fixed: `@{(expr) modifier}` ignores
    modifier whenever (expr) is an expression that undergoes expansion.

  - Fix in printed representation of a stdio stream.

  - define-modify-macro was not registered for auto-loading.

  - Fixed broken unget-char and unget-byte on catenated streams.

  - Fixed broken lexical analysis of consecutive top-level forms,
    like 4(x) where one call to the parser consumes 4(, so the
    next call sees x).

  - Fixed bug in print and pprint: wrong return value when printing a dwim
    form. These functions must always return their leftmost argument.



                                    TXR 109
                                   2015-06-21


  Features

  - New anaphoric macros ifa and conda.

  - New function have, synonym of true. Usefully expressive with anaphoric ifa.

  Bugs

  - equal-based hashing function is improved so list and vector permutations
    do not collide to the same value.

  - cat-str function detects overflow in the calculation of the total
    string length to allocate, and throws an exception.

  - Fixed neglected null termination in mkstring function.

  - Fixed garbage collector crash introduced in TXR 108, when traversing
    syntax_tree member of the parser_t structure.



                                    TXR 108
                                   2015-06-13


  Features

  - POSIX poll function exposed.

  - Entirely new macro-based framework for syntactic places (forms denoting
    locations that can be assigned): better featured, extensible than
    previous hard-coded hacks.

  - New macro: define-modify-macro.

  - New pset operator: assign to places in parallel.

  - rplaca and rplacd handle vectors and strings.

  - replacement sequence in replace function can now be a vector.

  - symbol-value retrieves bindings of symbol macros.

  - boundp returns true for symbol macros.

  - New functions: makeunbound and fmakunbound.

  - New concept: deletable places: locations that can not only be accessed, but
    which can be deleted. Existing del operator which contained special case
    hacks is now powerful, general macro that can delete any deletable place.

  - New defparm operator to accompany defvar.

  - symbol-function, symbol-value and fun forms are assignable places.

  - Debug instrumentation code made light weight, leading to big improvement
    in the execution speed of TXR Lisp.

  - New functions catenated-stream-p and catenated-stream-push.

  - New function: load for loading TXR Lisp files. TXR Lisp programming can
    now take place using multiple files containing code that doesn't have
    to be wrapped with @(do ...).

  - @(load) and @(include) directives can also load TXR Lisp now.

  - TXR files which have a .txr suffix can be invoked without the suffix now;
    this is automatically resolved.

  - New --lisp command line option makes TXR source files which have no
    filename suffix be treated as TXR Lisp code rather than TXR Pattern Language.

  Bugs

  - Fixed exception being thrown when trying to print (lambda . atom).

  - Dangling unquotes and splices now receive source location info.

  - Fixed memory corruption caused by disabling garbage collection
    for too long.

  - Better syntax checking in flet, labels, lambda, defun, quote.

  - Addressed clash between flip operator and flip function by renaming
    latter to flipargs.

  - Fixed regression in Verison 106 causing apply calls not to diagnose
    the too many arguments case, and allow a stack overrun.

  - chr-str-set checks for literal strings, which cannot be modified.

  - Fixed runaway recursion in keep-if* and remove-if*.

  - Fixed mismanagement of dyn_env variable leading to spurious
    retention of memory in TXR builds configured without debugger support.
    (Bug exposed by the lighter weight debug support.)

  - Critical bugfix in handling of hashes having both weak keys and values,
    leading to memory corruption.



                                    TXR 107
                                   2015-04-26


  Features

  - Change in representation of promise objects. The force function
    now detects recursion and throws an error.

  - New mlet macro: a step beyond Scheme's letrec.

  - A trivial optimization in the keywordp function more than doubles
    the interpretation speed of TXR Lisp.

  Bugs

  - Fixed regression in the garbage collector introduced in October 2014,
    TXR 100. This would cause runaway memory growth, due to the garbage
    collector creating unnecessary new heaps.



                                    TXR 106
                                   2015-04-21


  Features

  - New function tprint; like pprint but prints lists of strings as
    lines of text.

  - New stream opening option letter "i" for marking streams interactive.

  - New command line option -n which makes standard input noninteractive
    even if it is a TTY.

  - New command line option -P which is like -p but based on pprint.

  - New command line option -t for printing Lisp value using tprint.

  - Stream argument in get-lines is optional, and defaults to *stdin*.

  - The Unix fork and wait functions are exposed for use.

  - New function open-fileno for opening a stream on a Unix file descriptor,
    and fileno for retrieving a file descriptor from a stream which has one.

  - New functions dup (interface to Unix dup and dup2), chmod, exec
    and pipe.

  - New exit* function which calls _exit.

  - Added getenv, setenv and unsetenv functions for environment manipulation.

  - New operator zap for overwriting a place with nil, and returning its
    prior value: good for losing a reference to an object while passing
    it to a function, and other uses.

  - New whilet (while + let) macro for variable binding plus iteration.

  - New iflet and whenlet (if + let, when + let) macros for variable binding
    plus conditional evaluation.

  - New while* and until* loops which unconditionally execute one
    iteration.

  - New dotimes macro for simple iteration.

  - New lcons macro for writing expressive, concise code around lazy conses.

  - Brace variable notation can now contain quotes and quasiquotes.

  - Quasistrings can contain quasiquotes: `prefix @^(,x ,y) suffix`.

  - Fixed regression introduced in TXR 81, causing the argument parts of
    brace variables embedded in quasistrings to disappear.

  - The backslash in regular expressions can now only be used for recognized
    escape sequences, or for making regex special characters literal. If it is
    applied to any other character, it is diagnosed as an error.

  Bugs

  - Fixed stack array overrun in apply function.

  - The int-str function was recognizing the 0x C language convention in base
    16 conversions. Also, an error is now thrown on bases outside of the
    range 2-36.

  - Eliminated nuisance error message issue from the Makefile about git not
    being found; git is properly detected in configure.

  - Streams opened on TTY devices are not automatically marked as interactive.
    This is done only for the *stdin* stream on startup.

  - The ~X specifier in format was printing in lower case just like ~x,
    for bignum arguments.

  - Addressed spurious retention (garbage-collection-related issue) in
    function application.

  - Parser now diagnoses trailing junk in hex, octal and binary literals,
    like #xAD0Z, #o7778 or #b011003.

  - Fixed character escaping issues in open-process on Windows.

  - Fixed bug in error reporting, causing TXR sometimes to report that
    an error was thrown out of a form, when it wasn't in fact that form.

  - Fixed bug in the printing of regular expressions: empty expressions
    like #// or expressins with empty subexpressions like #/a|/ would
    result in an exception.



                                    TXR 105
                                   2015-03-14


  Features

  - New function lexical-lisp1-binding for improved macro-time introspection of
    environments.

  - New functions pad and weave.

  - New regex functions search-regst, match-regst and match-regst-right,
    to complement search-regex, match-regex and match-regex right.

  - Improved error reporting, particularly for errors ocurring during
    the expansion of a macro.

  - Streams have persistent error state. New functions: get-error,
    get-error-str and clear-error.

  - New ignerr macro for trapping exceptions of type error, and converting
    them to a nil return value.

  - New function ensure-dir: creates a directory in the filesystem,
    with all parent directories also created as necessary, and doesn't
    complain if the directory already exists.

  Bugs

  - Bugfixes in append* function: lack of error handling and inappropriate
    forcing of infinite lists in some circumstances.

  - Bugfix in match-regex-right: zero length matches must return zero rather
    than nil.

  - Fixed memory leak in open-process and run on POSIX platforms.

  - Fixed memory corruption bug in run function on Windows platform.



                                    TXR 104
                                   2015-02-08


  Features

  - Symbol macros are now shadowed by lexically scoped functions, when
    referenced from the interior of a form which uses Lisp-1 semantics (a []
    bracketed form, a form based on the op family of operators, or explicit use
    of the dwim operator).

  - New function, abort.

  - TXR now doesn't terminate abnormally (abort) on unhandled exceptions, but
    only terminates unsuccessfully. This provides a better experience on
    the MinGW-based Windows target, where we get an annoying dialog box on
    abort.

  - New *uhandled-hook* variable can be used to register a user-defined
    function which is called when an unhandled exception occurs.

  - New arithmetic function, trunc-rem.

  - When the numbered arguments of partial application under the op family of
    operators are interpolated into a string quasiliteral, modifiers may
    now be applied. For instance (op prinl `@{1 20} @{2 20}`) denotes
    a function which prints its two arguments in twenty-character-wide fields
    separated by a space.

  - Improvements in Windows installer: reduced broadcast delay in registerting
    environment variable. Improved messages in this area.

  - A txr-win.exe can be built now which avoids creating a console window.
    This is included in the installer.

  Bugs

  - Fixed bug in quasiliteral string evaluation in TXR Lisp, in conjunction
    with op arguments like @1, @2, ...  When a value interpolated from
    one of these arguments looked like a form, it was mistakenly subject to
    recursive processing and variable substitution as if it were part of
    the quasiliteral target syntax.

  - Fixed a serious bug in the op macro and all related operators like do
    and ap, in the handling of situations with missing argument numbers
    was broken: such as when @3 is referenced, but not @1 or @2
    (which must generate a function of at least three arguments, which
    ignores its first two). This key feature was discovered to be utterly
    broken.

  - Fix in internal representation of exceptions: (throw 'x "foo") is now
    the same as (throwf x "foo").



                                    TXR 103
                                   2015-02-02


  Features

  - New functions lexical-var-p and lexical-fun-p allow macros to
    inquire whether symbols are known to the macro-expander as
    lexical variable or function binding.

  - get-string now closes the stream after obtaining a string.
    It has a new optional argument which can defeat the behavior.
    The -C option can be used to request the old behavior.

  - New function, constantp.

  - New functions callf, mapf, dup and flip for more power and flexibility
    in function-combining expressions.

  - New function width, for computing the bit width of signed and
    unsigned integers.

  - New function sign-extend, for converting an a two's complement
    bit field of any width into the corresponding integer value.

  - Windows executable (MinGW and Cygwin) now has an icon and
    meta-data like ProductVersion and FileVersion.

  - MinGW-based Windows build is now distributed via an executable installer
    instead of a ZIP file.

  Bugs

  - Fixed regression introduced in 102, in the fix to the make-like
    function.  A one element list being converted to a string was treated
    as an empty list, leading to empty string.

  - Fixed small bug in macro argument list processing. The colon symbol
    was treated as "this argument is missing" for required arguments also,
    rather than just for optional arguments.

  - Fixed a bug in the code expander's handling of macro parameter lists.
    It was not recursing properly over nested patterns occuring in optional
    arguments, and throwing errors on keywords like :env present in
    the optional argument parts of macro parameter lists.



                                    TXR 102
                                   2015-01-13


  Features

  - merge function becomes generic: works over sequences rather
    than just lists.

  - New function glob is provided on platforms which have the Unix
    C library function of the same name.

  - New functions plusp and minusp. zerop accepts character argument.

  Bugs

  - Fixed incorrectly implemented horizontal flavor of the
    @(trailer) directive.

  - Fixed a bug in the make-like function which has consequences for
    the results of numerous sequence functions. This bug causes functions
    to return an empty list when the expected result is an empty string.
    For instance [mapcar identity ""] now returns "", consistent with
    [mapcar identity "abc"] returning "abc". Previously it returned nil.

  - Fixed a serious bug affecting the OS X port. The llvm-gcc compiler
    was discovered not to be consistently aligning wide character string
    literals on four byte boundaries, even though wchar_t is four bytes wide.
    As a workaround, a very similar trick is usd as what is used to handle
    literals on Windows, based on the assumption that we *can* depend
    on two-byte alignment. The bug leads to a failure of the OS X port
    of TXR to support the -p and -e options, for instance: txr -p '(+ 2 2)'.



                                    TXR 101
                                   2015-01-01


  Features

  - Finalization support in the garbage collector. Use the finalize
    function to associate a function with an object which is called
    when that object is found to be unreachable.

  - iff function can now be called with just one argument.

  - New function chand.

  - New macros opip and oand.

  - The min and max functions are more generic by using the less function
    instead of the < function.

  - The less and greater functions are variadic now.

  - Select accepts a function in place of the index list.

  - Arguments of where function reversed, with backward compatibility support.

  - New functions succ, ssucc, sssucc, pred, ppred, pppred for calculating
    small deltas.

  - New functions wrap and wrap* for clamping a number into a given range,
    with modular wrapping semantics.

  - New function sort-group for sorting and partitioning a sequence in
    a single operation.

  - New function in for generic membership testing over any kind of sequence
    or hash.

  - copy function extended to copy random state objects.

  - New function unique, which generalizes uniq.

  - New function aret: apply version of ret.

  - Build system improvements: debug and optimized TXR built at the same time,
    dependencies handled in a cleaner way, tidy make output.

  Bugs

  - Fixed incorrect registration of repeat function, lacking support
    for its optional argument.

  - Removed dependency on useless Flex library (libfl).

  - Overflow arithmetic fixes in some array resizing logic.

  - Incorrect argument defaulting in iff function

  - Garbage printed in type mismatch diagnostic in sub, ref,
    refset, replace, update and search_list.

  - Behavior of splitr-str was undocumented for the case of the empty
    separator string and was inconsistent.

  - The set-diff function was not handling nil elements.

  - The toint function identified itself as tofloat in error messages.

  - The toint and tofloat conversions conveniently treat a character as a
    string of length one.

  - Added missing documentation that make-random-state can take an existing
    random state and clone it.

  - Also, make-random-state was incorrectly doing additional scrambling after
    copying an existing random state.

  - Simple lazy streams now close a stream when it runs out of data.

  - Catenated streams close each stream that is popped from the list due
    to running out of data.

  - Fixed bug in replace-str and replace-vec: when the argument was an
    index list that was lazy and infinite, it was being forced, causing
    an infinite loop and exhaustion of memory.

  - The partition* function was found to be buggy.

  - Separate directory build issues fixed.



                                    TXR 100
                                   2014-10-22


  Features

  - New functions: chr-isblank and chr-isunisp

  - New generic less and greater functions, which are also used as
    default functions in sort, find-max, max-pos, and others.

  - New directives @(line) and @(chr) for binding or asserting the current line
    number or character position.

  - Lisp expressions allowed on left side of @(bind) and @(rebind) now.

  - New function lcm (lowest common multiple).

  - The gcd function now takes zero or more arguments instead of exactly two.

  - New @(include) for parse-time loading of code, useful for loading macros
    which are needed later in the same file.

  - Beginning of library external to TXR executable: macros txr-if, txr-when
    and txr-bind for more convenient access back into the pattern
    language from TXR Lisp.

  - New combinator function notf for negating a function.

  Bugs

  - Fixed December 2011 regression affecting @(freeform) directive.

  - Fixed GC-safety bug in abs-path-p function.

  - Fixed breakage in scanner and parser introduced in August.
    Caught by C++ compiler.

  - Fixed inappropriate printed rendering of list objects produced by
    interpolated TXR Lisp expressions in @(output) blocks, and in
    the quasiliterals of the pattern language. (TXR Lisp quasiliterals
    not affected.) Users who depend on the old behavior not wanting
    to fix their programs can use --compat 99.

  - Bugfix in the gcd and lognot functions: neglecting to normalize some
    bignum result to the fixnum type.

  - Bugfix in @(eof) directive: not matching the end of interactive
    streams.

  - Fixed abort due to assertion going off when GC is disabled and the array of
    new generation objects runs out of space. This could happen during
    large parses.

  - Fixed parser stack overflow and inefficiencies when handling large TXR
    programs.

  - Bugfix in match_fun causing memory accesses to automatic storage
    that has been released, as well as an invalid longjmp.

  - Hash table reorganization is prevented during hash table traversal,
    so existing items are not skipped or visited twice.



                                     TXR 99
                                   2014-10-05


  Features

  - Variables in the pattern language can be bound to regexes, in
    which case they perform regex matches when matched against
    input.

  - Representation for compiled regexes is streamlined.

  - Regex objects now print in regex notation.

  Bugs

  - Fixed August 11 regression affecting 96 through 98: broken matching of
    unbound variables followed by bound variables.

  - Fixed one more problem with andf function: (andf) not returning t. 



                                     TXR 98
                                   2014-09-26


  Features

  - New numeric constants giving pi, e and various limits of floating point
    representation.

  - New syntax-error exception type; syntax errors in expressions passed
    on the cmomand line with -p or -e throw exception how instead of silently
    producing nil.

  - New --gc-delta option and gc-set-delta function related to
    bugfix below.

  - New -C/--compat option for specifying compatibility.

  - New functions: partition and partition*.

  - Revamped documentation: nicely formatted with fonts and section numbering;
    HTML version uses proportional font now, and has internal hyperlinks.

  - Exception names like file_error have been renamed to use a dash
    like file-error.

  Bugs

  - Fixed bad memory performance when the program works with large
    heaped objects, by making GC aware of this memory.

  - Fixed broken return value semantics of orf and andf combinators.



                                     TXR 97
                                   2014-08-29


  Bugs

  - A few GC-related fixes after code review.

  - Fixed @(load), broken in TXR 94.

  - Fixed broken @{var mod} syntax Lisp quasiliterals, broken in TXR 96.



                                     TXR 96
                                   2014-08-14


  Features

  - Big change in pattern language in the variable binding logic.
    When unbound variables are followed by directives, then the full right hand
    context to the end of the line is used to determine the binding.

  - Internal functions related to tries exposed: trie-lookup-begin,
    trie-value-at, trie-lookup-feed-char.

  Bugs

  - Fixed bug in ret operator: was generating fixed arity functions
    rather than n-ary as documented.



                                     TXR 95
                                   2014-08-07


  Bugs

  - Fix major regression: bad syntax causing crashes in parser.



                                     TXR 94
                                   2014-08-05


  Features

  - New functions: giterate, partition-by, uniq.

  - reduce-left and reduce-right correctly work on strings and vectors.

  - quasiquote splices can now occur in string quasiliterals, directly
    as `xyz @,foo`,  `xyz @{,foo}`, `xyz @,(foo)` etc. Previously this
    syntax was rejected, requiring workarounds like (let ((x ,foo)) `xyz @x`).

  - POSIX functions exposed: getpid, getppid, kill, setitimer, getitimer.

  - The parser is now re-entrant. This means that macro expanders can
    safely recurse into the parser, for instance with regex-parse
    or read.

  Bugs

  - @(output) blocks were discovered not to be applying filters to the results
    of embedded TXR Lisp evaluations.

  - n-perm-k function was broken for values of k equal to 1.

  - Fixed situations when exceptions with bogus messages are issued when the
    arithmetic +, - and * functions are called with wrong type arguments.

  - Fixed grossly incorrect documentation of the repeat function, to
    reflect actual syntax and behavior.

  - Fixed situations in which some signal handlers that don't need to
    execute on a separate stack might do so.

  - Put in a guard against async signal nesting: a situation when
    an asynchronous signal handler performs some blocking operation
    which enables async signal handling triggering re-entrancy.

  - Fixed platform-dependent behaviors in random number seeding
    (make-random-state function).



                                     TXR 93
                                   2014-07-22


  Features

  - New list munging functions interpose, mapdo, and juxt.

  - New macros caseq, caseql and casequal based on Lisp's case construct.

  - New math function log2 for computing base 2 logarithm.

  - New function get-lines for obtaining list of lines from a stream.
    Actually this is not new; it is a nice synonym for lazy-stream-cons.

  - New functions put-lines and put-strings.

  - Missing function lconsp added for testing whether an object is
    a lazy cons.

  - Documented existing function hash-construct.

  - search-str now supports a negative starting position, which counts from the
    tail of the string.

  - The division function / can now be used with one argument, denoting
    the reciprocal operation.

  Bugs

  - Bindings created using -D command line option are now visible to code
    executed via -e or -p later in the command line.

  - Fixed broken @(eol) directive; was behaving as a complete match, so that
    subsequent directives are ignored.

  - Obscure bug-fixes in @(do) and @(require), involving code that invokes
    pattern funcions, and the visibily of bindings.

  - Fixed hash-construct so it correctly works on an empty vector.

  - Alternative stack (sigaltstack) is now automatically used for SIGBUS
    handlers, not only SIGSEGV.



                                     TXR 92
                                   2014-07-11


  Features

  - New operators ado and ido.

  - New command line option --license.

  - Long overdue flet and labels operators for lexical binding in the function
    space, added as macros.

  Bugs

  - apf and ipf functions fixed.

  - Uninitialized variable bug fix in select function
    and in the index list case of replace-list.



                                     TXR 91
                                   2014-07-02



  Features

  - @(load `@stdlib/ver`) brings in a definition of a new variable
    called *lib-version* which lets programs check what version of
    the library they are using.

  - New functions where and sel for working with multiple indexes
    into a sequence.

  - New function seqp for testing whether an object is a sequence of any type.

  - New functions pos-max, pos-min, find-max and find-min.

  - New character constant #\pnul denoting the U+DC00 code
    (TXR's  "pseudo null").

  - New function tuples for reorganizing a sequence into tuples.

  - New functions true and false, expressive in applicative programming:
    for instance [all true list].

  - New functions member and member-if.

  - New function multi for applying a one-sequence operation to
    parallel sequences.

  - New functions tf, nilf, retf, apf, ipf.

  - New macros ret, ip and ap.

  - New function iapply for applying improper lists.

  - New functions transpose and zip.

  - New functions tok-where and range-regex.

  - New function bit for testing bits.

  - [] indexing now allows element extraction by index list,
    as well as assignment by index list, increasing the "slicing power".

  Bugs

  - Fixed reliance on leading slash as indicator of absolute path in @(load).

  - Fixed breakage in range and range* function (regression introduced
    in TXR 89).

  - Fixed bug in dwim operator: Lisp-1 evaluation semantics being propagated
    into nested forms, contrary to documentation.

  - Line number of error correctly reported in some situations in which
    it previously wasn't.

  - Fixed macros not being expanded inside quasiliteral brace notation.

  - Fixed broken last function.

  - Fixed broken bignum bit operations, not handling negative values
    properly.

  - Fixed reversed logic of logtest function.

  - Fixed some memory leaks in MPI bignum integer operations.

  - Documentation fixes.



                                     TXR 90
                                   2014-06-11


  Features

  - TXR has been ported to FreeBSD 9 and Solaris 10. These operating
    systems are officially supported going forward.  TXR's configure
    and build system has better portability support as a result.

  - call operator is a function now, like it should be.

  - Traling backslash in a dynamic regex is rejected as an error.

  - TXR no longer automatically prints out the bindings; this must be
    requested explicitly with -B. The -a and -l options now imply -B.
    The -b option for suppresing the automatic printing of bindings
    is deprecated.

  - New --args option, allows multiple logical command line arguments to be
    encoded in one physical argument which is useful in conjunction
    with very limited hash-bang (#!) scripting mechanisms on some systems.

  - New variable "stdlib" which expands to a path in the TXR installation.
    This will allow inclusion of standard modules. The stdlib variable
    automatically tracks relocation of the TXR installation.

  - New function for searching sequences for substrings: search.

  - New functions nullify and make-like for easily adapting list processing
    functions to correctly work on vectors and strings.

  - match-str function can now match from the end of a string, at various
    negative offsets.

  - New string comparison functions: str=, str<, str>, str<= and str>=.

  - string-lt function deprecated, replaced by str<.

  Bugs

  - rplaca and rplacd now return the cell rather than assigned value,
    and the return values are now documented.

  - Fixed a widespread bug which occurs when empty strings and vectors
    are treated as lists, due to the fact that they are not equal to
    the nil object.

  - Fixed completely broken string-cmp function, and changed its name
    to cmp-str.



                                     TXR 89
                                   2014-05-11


  Bugs

  - The eql function was not handling floating-point values correctly.

  - The range and range* functions internally use numeric comparison for end
    test rather than eql, so that they can step through floating-point values,
    but use an integer boundary, or vice versa.

  - Fixed broken default argument handling in get-line, get-char and get-byte.

  - The functions ref, refset, replace, and update (and the DWIM brackets
    syntax based on them) were not handling lazy strings.

  - Fixed a bug in the pattern language: when a variable ends up bound
    to the empty string, a literal empty string object was used, and
    that was not handled in the matching language. Best illustrated
    by the test case "echo : | ./txr -c '@a:@a' -".



                                     TXR 88
                                   2014-04-04


  Features

  - New TXR Lisp macros: while, unless, until.

  - New functions empty and last.

  - copy and length functions take hash tables now.

  - Word list literals and word list quasiliterals.

  - Big improvements in efficiency of generational garbage collection.
    Situations when a backpointer to a fresh object is stored into a
    mature object now are precisely identified, eliminating GC pressure
    caused by conservatively wrong guesses.

  - TXR is now configured to build with Generational GC by default.

  Bugs

  - copy and length functions handle lazy strings now.

  - time-string-utc on Linux now renders %Z strftime code as "UTC" rather than
    "GMT". Not our issue: this is a workaround for library behavior.

  - Generational GC fix: a number of functions which mutate state weren't using
    the proper set macro.

  - Generational GC fix: the gc_mutated function was not correctly implemented
    and could cause reachable objects with their GC reachability flag to
    continue to be set after GC is done.



                                     TXR 87
                                   2014-03-22


  Features

  - New convenience functions tofloat, toint: convert string or number to
    integer or floating-point.

  - New macro: when.

  Bugs

  - int-flo function was failing on negative numbers.

  - Fixed long-standing syntax issue: directives of the pattern matching
    language being syntactically recognized in the @(output) clause and
    in string quasiliterals, interfering with the ability to invoke Lisp
    forms based on the same symbols. This issue really "hit home" with
    the recent introduction of the @(if) directive, causing
    @(if expr then else) to suddenly be inaccessible in @(output) and
    quasistrings.



                                     TXR 86
                                   2014-03-16


  Features

  - Exposed the implementation of tries to user code.

  - New functions: html-encode, html-decode.

  - New prof operator and pprof macro for simple profiling: time spent and memory
    allocated over the evaluation of an expression.

  - New functions sh and run for running system commands.

  - If available, sigaltstack is used when the program registers a handler for
    the SIGSEGV signal, allowing TXR programs to catch stack exhaustion and
    recover by throwing an exception.

  - New syntactic sugar in the pattern language: @(if)/@(elif)/@(else)/@(end),
    which works by transformation to a pattern involving @(cases) and @(require).

  - The @(empty) directive which plays a role in @(output) blocks has a new meaning
    in the pattern language for denoting an explicit empty match.

  Bugs

  - Fixed severe performance problem with regex on long strings, caused by feeding
    characters to the regex machine past the point that it is clear it will not
    accept any more.

  - Fixed broken horizontal matching under @(freeform) on long lines, due to bugs
    in the handling of the memory-saving optimization which consumes the prefix of
    the lazy string as scanning progresses.

  - Fixed breakage in sub-str over lazy strings.

  - Fixed possible crash in @(trailer) directive.

  - Fixed memory leaks on open-process: one that happened on every call, and one on
    failure of the fork function.

  - Fixed pipe-close deadlocks occurring in code that opens numerous pipes; solved
    by setting the close-on-exec flag on the pipe descriptors.

  - Fixed faulty argument defaulting logic in the functions: iffi, regex-parse,
    lisp-parse, regex-compile and Windows version of open-process.

  - Fixed regression in the random number module, causing the random function to
    ignore the seeded random state passed in as an argument, and rely on the global one.

  - Fixed a bug in a rarely used form of the backslash line continuation.

  - Fixed buggy argument quoting in Windows version of open-process.

  - The gc on/off state is now saved and restored as part of unwinding, so if
    code that turned off gc throws an exception, gc will be turned back on
    at the catch site.

  - Fixed incorrect calculation of malloc upper and lower boundaries, affecting
    the correctness of generational garbage collection.

  - In open process, if fdopen fails, kill the process more gently with SIGINT
    and SIGTERM rather than SIGKILL, and wait on it.

  - Syntax fix. @^a is not meta applied to the symbol ^a, but rather meta quasiquote a.



                                     TXR 85
                                   2014-03-07

  Bugs

  - Fixed a regression related to the *random-state* variable, 
    breaking all pseudo-random number functions.

  - Fixed broken "txr -v".



                                     TXR 84
                                   2014-03-07


  Features

  - TXR Lisp no longer uses one quote for regular quote and quasiquote syntax.
    The quasiquote character is now ^ and the apostrophe is just regular quote.
    This change breaks backward compatibility, unfortunately, but the
    single-quote experiment had to come to an end, now that TXR has a powerful
    macro facility, with quasiquotes playing a central role.

  - TXR Lisp exposes the environment manipulation functions make-env, env-vbind
    and env-fbind.

  - New function log10 for base 10 logarithms.

  - New functions open-files and open-files* for opening a big catenated stream
    which marches through multiple files as if they were one.

  - New directive, @(assert), for writing certain kind of robust matching code
    more simply.

  - put-line can be called with no arguments, in which case it just writes
    a newline to standard output.

  - In the format function, if a precision is specified as *, it can now
    have a leading 0 in front of it, which applies as usual (to the formatting
    of an integer which falls short of the number of digits required
    by the precision).

  Bugs

  - In the format function, the * character for specifying a variable
    field width or precision (derived from an integer argument) was broken.

  - Fixed a regression causing the exception "t is not a cons" on queries
    that match data, when no input files are specified.

  - Fixed a regression causing file names not to be tracked in the pattern
    matching language, and consequently error messages not to give that
    useful information.

  - Fixed some bugs related to command line processing, which had recently
    been rewritten: the element nil was being added to *args* in some situations,
    the argument - would end up repeated twice, and args was being sometimes
    manipulated in such a way that (ldiff *full-args* *args*) wouldn't work,
    due to new conses pushed onto *args* so that it's not a structural
    suffix of *full-args*.



                                     TXR 83
                                   2014-03-02


  Features
  
  - The qquote macro is now in the regular user namespace, while the 
    quasiquoting read syntax uses a different macro based on private symbols.
    So when the read syntax is used, the template can contain the symbols
    qquote, unquote and splice, even though these are the basis for
    a quasiquote macro.

  - Diagnosis of attempt to redefine a special operator as a function or macro.
    Remove the macro when a function of the same name is defined and vice-versa.

  Bugs

  - Fixed bugs in the implementation lexical variable shadowing by symbol
    macros.

  - Fixed incorrect handling of trailing atoms in quasiquote.

  - Redesigned the implementaton of special variables, and how they integrate
    with internal C global variables in the interpreter, in order to fix the
    broken dynamic overriding of the predefined globals.

  - The Lisp-1 style evaluation of the dwim operator or square brackets was not
    resolving over-ridden special variables correctly, using a lookup method
    that saw only the global bindings.

  - Fixed missing integration between catenated stream objects and the
    garbage collector.



                                     TXR 82
                                   2014-02-27


  Features

  - Intuitive behavior in various sequence processing in the library:
    don't try to output a string if the resulting items are not characters,
    and then fail; make a list.

  - All operators that were implemented as special code expanding hacks
    in the TXR Lisp code walker are have been converted to intrinsic
    macros. Only a few bona-fide special forms are subject to minor
    code transformations.

  - New generation macro called "gun". (gun (read-line stream))
    produces a lazy list of lines from a stream. gun, which stands
    for "generate until nil", evaluates the enclosed expression while that
    expression produces non-nil values, and makes a lazy list out of them.

  - New function copy, for copying sequences.

  - Documentation improvements thanks to Roman Mishin. 

  Bugs

  - Regression fix: error thrown on valid floating point constants.

  - Doc bugs: documentation was missing for the delay operator
    and the length function.


                                     TXR 81
                                   2014-02-25


  Features

  - Calls to stream opening functions can omit the mode parameter,
    which defaults to "r".

  - New functions for accessing environment variables from TXR Lisp,
    augmenting the @(next :env) method in TXR pattern language.

  - New variables *args* and *full-args* for accessing the
    partial and full command line.

  - New functions macro-form-p, macroexpand and macroexpand-1.

  - Implemented special variables (dynamic scope). All global variables
    defined with defvar and all the predefined variables are special,
    with the symbols being attributed for special binding similarly
    to Common Lisp.

  - Implemented the macrolet operator for binding local macros.
    The macroexpand and macro-form-p functions work correctly with
    the environment from a macrolet.

  - Implemented symbol macros: global symbol macros via defsymacro,
    and local macros via symacrolet. Local symbol maros are shadowed
    properly by lexical bindings, and are expanded properly in
    situations where they are used as assignment places by the
    set operator, and related operators.

  - Introduced the (. expr) syntax which is equivalent to expr.
    Handy for writing a function argument list that accepts
    only trailing parameters as (lambda (. rest) ...)
    rather than (lambda rest ...).

  - New functions prinl and pprinl, which are like print and pprint,
    but add a newline.

  - Added new Unix filesystem access functions: symlink, link, mkdir,
    readlink, mknod. Also makedev, minor and major.



  Bugs

  - Fixed broken seek-to-end-p boolean parameter in open-tail,
    a regression in TXR 71.

  - Fixed a regression in the debugger, also introduced in TXR 71,
    causing it not to print the data line being processed in a horizontal
    scanning context.

  - Fixed premature opening of data sources in the TXR pattern language.
    Opening files is now delayed until a data consuming directive
    needs to match data. The previous kludgy approach recognized only the
    @(next) directive, and only one occurrence of it.

  - Fixed incorrect square root calculation over bignums. It was
    not computing the last bit of the result and so could be off by
    one.

  - Numerous bugfixes in form expansion, in particular handling of
    variable bindings and function and macro parameter lists.

  - Global macro bindings make a symbol fboundp. Also, symbol-function
    retrieves information about a global macro.

  - Fixed several bugs in quasiquote, including the handling of 
    `(... . ,form) in quasiquote.

  - Fixed get-string-from-stream throwing an inappropriate internal error on
    type mismatch.

  - Fixed the neglect to expand Lisp forms in the argument lists
    of the directives of the pattern matching language.

  - Added the neglected s-ifsock variable, which is part of the Unix
    filesystem interface, corresponding to S_IFSOCK.

  - Fixed some instances of source code line number not propagating
    through code transformations.

  - Fixed numerous formatting issues in the documentation, and omissions.



                                     TXR 80
                                   2014-02-17


  Features

  - TXR now nicely handles null characters in text stream inputs.
    They are internally encoded to the Unicode value U+DC00,
    which will map back to a single null byte on output (that being
    existing behavior).

  - TXR now has Lisp macros: the defmacro operator is implemented,
    with destructuring lambda lists and all.

  - New operators tree-bind and tree-case for pattern binding similar
    to Common Lisp's destructuring. This piggybacks off the defmacro
    infrastructure which we now have.

  - Big improvement in debuggability: the unhandled exception error message now
    gives source code location information.

  - New functions pos, pos-if, posq, posql and posqual for finding item
    positions in sequences.

  - Predicate function is now optional in the some, all and none functions.

  - hash-uni and hash-isec functions take a join-func argument which
    lets you specify how elements from two tables are merged.

  - new hash table functions inhash and hash-update-1.

  - two hashes can now be tested for deep equality using equal.

  Bugs

  - Removed bogus optimization from hash table implementation.

  - Syntactic fix: input like 1.0a no longer parses as a floating-point number
    followed by a symbol, but is diagnosed as an error. Syntax like 123a
    continues to work as before: it denotes one symbol, not 123
    followed by a.

  - Bugfix in type check for "cobj" class objects that would crash if
    given non-heaped values like fixnum integers.

  - Corrected problems in the code walking and expansion of lambda and
    defun forms.

  - Fixed failure to propagate line number info through the abstract syntax
    of string quasiliterals.

  - Doc bugs: missing descriptions of gethash and gensym.



                                     TXR 79
                                   2014-02-11


  Features

  - New functions comb, perm, rcomp and rperm for calculating repeating and
    non-repeating combinations and permuations of sequences (lists, vectors and
    strings).  Hashes are supported by comb function.

  Bugs

  - Hardening of code for handling excessively large vectors.

  - Bugfix in quasistring handling in TXR Lisp.

  - Bugfix in if function (not the if operator).



                                     TXR 78
                                   2014-02-06


  Features

  - vec function for making a vector out of its arguments, to complement
    the existing vector function which makes a vector of a given size.

  - The dot position of function call forms can now apply strings and
    vectors. The same is true of the apply function.

  - The apply function now takes additional optional arguments before the list,
    similarly to Common Lisp's apply.

  - New function: list*.

  - Three-element forms for optional parameters are now supported;
    the variable can be specified, an initialization form used when the
    argument is omitted, and a symbol that is bound to a boolean indicating
    whether or not the argument is present. (Common Lisp style, IOTW).

  - New protocol for optional parameters: the colon symbol : can be
    passed as a value for an optional parameter, which causes that
    parameter to behave as if it were missing.

  - reduce-left and reduce-right can now use nil as the initial object,
    which is an useful and important behavior.

  - strings, vectors, lists and hashes are now generally callable like
    functions, not only in the DWIM operator or DWIM brackets notation.

  Bugs

  - Lexical scope of optional argument default init forms now properly
    restricted.

  - Fixed breakages in do operator.

  - Bugfix in logic for tracking source code file and line number info
    that would cause the info to disappear under garbage collection.

  - Fixed a erroneous exception throws in the mutation operator logic
    which would cause usage errors to turn into internal errors.



                                     TXR 77
                                   2014-01-30


  Features

  - More streamlined parser containing fewer hacks, and fewer obscure
    cases that don't work.

  - @'expr syntax now works as expected in directives for evaluating quoted
    TXR Lisp expressions.

  - In nested uses of the do and op operators in TXR Lisp there is now
    a way to refer to the outer parameters from the inner nestings, using
    compounded meta syntax like (op (op @1 @@1)), where @1 is argument 1
    of the function denoted by the inner op, and @@1 is argument 1 of the
    outer function.  Each additional @ "escapes" out one level of nesting
    of the op syntax.

  - New update and hash-update functions.

  - The interfaces of reduce-left and reduce-right functions has been
    improved, making them easier to use, while mostly retaining backward
    compatibility.

  - New functions remove-path and rename-path for removing and renaming
    filesystem objects.

  - Catenated streams, previously an internal feature, are exposed
    now via the make-catenated-stream function.

  - Scope rule change for expressions that provide default intialization
    for optional arguments. These eexpressions now have the parameters
    in scope, and so now uses like (lambda (x : (y (length x))) ...)
    are possible where y is initialized with (length x) if the argument
    is not supplied. Previously, parameter x would not have been considered 
    to be in scope of the expression (length x).

    

  Bugs

  - Fixed neglected handling of result form in dohash syntax.

  - In the object printer, the handling of syntax like @(sys:var x ...) was
    ignoring any additional ... forms, and rendering as @x.

  - Fixed possible race condition in tail streams, whereby when a file
    rotates, the stream prematurely follows the new file, neglecting
    to read the last piece of material just added to the previous file.



                                     TXR 76
                                   2014-01-23
                                   

  Features

  - New time functions: time-fields-local and time-fields-utc for obtaining
    broken-down time from Epoch seconds.

  - New group-by function for constructing a hash from a list when the
    list elements can be partitioned into equivalence classes tied to keys,
    rather than treated individually.

  - Sweeping changes in TXR List to allow vectors and strings to be manipulated
    in many situations as if they were lists. Functions like car, cdr and
    mapcar work on strings and vectors.

  - New command line options -e and -p for evaluating TXR Lisp expressions
    more conveniently from the command line.

  - The and, or and if special operators are now also provided as functions,
    so they can be indirected upon functionally.

  - New functions conses and conses*, useful for iterating over a list
    similarly to Common Lisp's maplist function.

  - New do operator (unrelated to @(do) directive) similar to op, but 
    geared toward doing imperative things involving special operators.

  Bugs

  - @(require ...) directive was not expanding its forms prior to evaluation.



                                     TXR 75
                                   2014-01-16


  Features
  
  - Two new stream functions: unget-char and unget-byte. Some streams now
    support ungetting a byte or character, which was a glaring omission
    in the API, without which some common scanning tasks are awkward.

  - TXR Lisp functions with optional parameters can now specify expressions
    to give those arguments values when the arguments are missing.

  - New operators in TXR Lisp: append-each and append-each*.

  - Change in the Lisp structure printer. The special structure generated by
    the read syntax @sym and @(...) now prints back in the same syntax,
    rather than as (sys:var sym) and (sys:expr ...).

  Bugs

  - Fix in put-byte function: before invoking the underlying operation,
    it was testing whether the put-char operation exists for the stream,
    rather than the put-byte operation. This would result in a crash if
    the stream supports put-char but not put-byte.
  
  - Mistake in calculating bitmasks for regex character class ranges,
    resulting in incorrect behavior for ranges whose upper range is
    a character code corresponding to the last bit of a word in the
    bitmask array, e.g. [A-\x7f], resulting in failures to match
    32 or more characters in the upper end of the range.

  - Missing documentation filled in for the functions throw, throwf and error.



                                     TXR 74
                                   2014-01-13


  Features

  - Maintenance: builds on Cygwin, MinGW and Mac OS X 10.7.3.

  - New math functions: n-choose-k, n-perm-k, cum-norm-dist.

  - lisp-parse function renamed read; old name is obsolescent.

  - In the TXR pattern language, the @ escape can now evaluate a non-compound
    TXR Lisp expression also. Previously compounds like @(+ 1 1) 
    were supported, but atoms like @foo were not.


  Bugs

  - Small fix in how exponent fields of printed floating point values
    are normalized. Across all platforms, there are now no leading zeros
    after the 'e'.
    


                                     TXR 73
                                   2014-01-08


  Features
  
  - The new lisp-parse function scans TXR Lisp expressions at run-time
    out of strings and streams, which means that TXR can now more easily keep
    persistent, complex data in text files.

  Bugs

  - Fixed signal-handling-related performance issue caused by excessive
    calls to the sigprocmask function.



                                     TXR 72
                                   2013-12-17


  Features

  - Syslog functionality: openlog, closelog, syslog, setlogmask.
    Plus: the *stdlog* stream for logging directly to syslog.

  - Stream properties.

  - logand and logior functions become variadic.

  - Signal handling support. TXR Lisp code can catch POSIX signals.

  - Syntax changes in the area of symbol names. Package prefixes are
    supported now, like foo:bar (symbol bar in package foo).

  Bugs

  - Nonsensical error diagnostics in intern and delete-package, in the
    case when a package doesn't exist.

  - defvar is documented now and behaves more similarly to the Common Lisp
    defvar.
  
  - seek-stream with a zero offset was reporting the current offset instead
    of seeking regardless of the value of the whence argument.

                                   

                                     TXR 71
                                   2013-12-07


  Features

  - New functions countqual, countql, countq and count-if.

  - New regex-parse function: parse regex from a string at run-time.

  - New *stdnull* stream for discarding data.

  - New function: seek-stream for positioning within a stream.

  - New function open-tail for opening a new kind of stream called a tail
    stream. This stream follows rotating log files.

  - New functions for converting a time expressed as individual fields
    into numeric time: make-time, make-time-utc.

  - New function daemon (where supported). Calls the BSD-derived daemon
    function to daemonize the process in one step.

  - New errno function for accessing C errno.

  - Real-time input support in pattern matching language, via "simple"
    lazy text stream line lists which sacrifice accuracy of representation for
    timely delivery.

  Bugs

  - Fixed missing recognition for hexadecimal integers in Vim
    syntax higlighting file txr.vim.

  - Fixed missing check for null handle in stdio back-end of flush-stream.

  - Grammar and spelling in HACKING guide.



                                     TXR 70
                                   2013-11-22


  Features

  - Fixed a nasty bug that affects all versions; I was not able to find
    a revision in git that works right with gcc 4.6.3. Invoking an @(accept) in
    the middle of a @(collect) was found not work at all as documented, and
    this was root-caused to my neglect to use volatile on some local variables.

  - Fixed a more recent regression in the op syntax, caused this October.

  - Fixed an amazing regression introduced in TXR 22, back in November 2009,
    easily reproduced using:
    
       echo ":x" | ./txr -c "@x:@x" -

  - Fixed all unintentional deviations from 1990 ISO C. GCC had
    not been diagnosing them for us due to my neglect to use
    the --pedantic flag.

  - Revamped and up-to-date txr.vim syntax file, for you Vim users.



                                     TXR 69
                                   2013-10-23


  Features

  - Multiple @(output) blocks can now continue on the same output stream, which
    is particularly useful if it is a pipe. 

  Bugs

  - Fixed errors in documentation for the functions time-string-local,
    time-string-utc and expt.



                                     TXR 68
                                   2013-10-07


  Features

  - @(repeat) inside @(output)  supports a :vars parameter, making it possible
    to declare the existence of iteration variables that are otherwise hidden
    within Lisp code.

  Bugs

  - Out-of-sequence numeric parameters can be used in the op operator now, like
    (op foo @2) where @1 is absent.

  - The implicit ". @rest" is now added to op forms only if they do not mention
    @rest or any numeric parameters, to prevent unintentional passing of extra
    parameters.

  - @rest or a numeric param like @1 can now be specified in the dot position
    of the op form, as in (op foo . @rest).



                                     TXR 67
                                   2013-07-13


  Features

  - New functions tok-str and string-cmp.
  
  - Internal lazy string functions exposed as intrinsics.

  - New pattern language directive: @(require ...).

  Bugs

  - Unrecognized backslash escapes in string literals
    and string quasiliterals are diagnosed.

  - Backslash-space escape recognized in string literals
    and string quasiliterals.



                                     TXR 66
                                   2013-05-16


  Features

  - Documentation completely filled in.

  - Added specfile for RPM builds.

  - @(repeat) introduced as shorthand for @(collect :vars nil).

  - New open-command and open-process functions. The open-pipe
    function becomes deprecated.

  - New multi-sort function for sorting two or more lists
    at the same time as if they were columns of a table.

  - assq and aconsq functions are renamed to assql and
    aconsql becuse they use eql equality, not eq.

  - New prop function for property list lookup.

  - New stat function for information about files.

  - New functions in hashing library: 
    - Copying hashes: make-similar-hash, copy-hash 
    - Set operations: hash-uni, hash-diff, hash-isec.

  - Gapingly missing hexadecimal integer constants have been
    implemented.

  - New bit operation functions that work with TXR's arbitrary precision
    integers: loand, logior, loxor, lognot, logtest, ash.

  - Test form in for loop can be omitted.

  - New package-related functions.

  - New functions for obtaining time of day and converting to text.

  Bugs

  - Fixed broken (+ <fixnum> <char>) case in addition.
    This fixes the range and range* functions too.

  - Fixed nonworking building in a separate directory.

  - Fixed broken eval function.

  - Bugfix in form expander's handling of regular expression
    syntax, causing the (set ...) notation for character
    sets being mistaken for the (set ...) assignment operator.
  
  - Bugfix in format: apply field formatting to argument
    not only if a nonzero with has been specified, but also
    if a precision has been specified.

  - Bugfix in format: ~s on a floating point number now
    always shows .0 except when a precision is given,
    and it is zero.

  - Fixed broken @(last) clause processing of @(collect),
    int he case when the last material matches at the end of a stream.

  - Fixed certain function applications not being able to
    call functions that have optional arguments with
    fewer than 



                                     TXR 65
                                   2012-04-20


  Features

  - New ways to iterate over hash tables using lazy lists.

  - Regular expression compiler expressed to user code, allowing TXR
    programs to build regex abstract syntax trees and turn them into
    regular expression machines.

  - The popular regular expression tokens \s, \d, \w and \S, \D, \W are now
    supported (the first three of these in character classes also).

  - Low level time-of-day functions added for retrieving epoch seconds,
    and optionally microseconds.

  - New remove-if and keep-if functions, plus lazy counterparts
    remove-if* and keep-if*.

  - Lazy variants remq*, remql* and remqual* added.

  - New function find-if.

  - Improved seeding of pseudo-random-number generator.

  - Configure script now diagnoses specification of nonexistent config
    variables.

  - Documentation improvements.

  - Portability to Mac OS/X 10.7 (Lion), NetBSD 5.1 and FreeBSD 9.0.

  Bugs

  - Bugfix in @(next) directive, which showed up when using @(next :args)
    more than once to scan arguments more than once.

  Quiet Changes

  - First two arguments to the find function were reversed.



                                     TXR 64
                                   2012-04-06


  Features

  - In the pattern language, binding the symbol nil as a variable
    is permitted now and has a special meaning of matching and
    discarding input.

  - Caching optimization in hash tables.

  - Ephemeral GC implemented. This is experimental and currently
    must be enabled at compile time with the --gen-gc configure
    option.

  Bugs

  - Interaction between @(trailer) and @(accept) has been clarified.
    An @(accept) return from the forms of a @(trailer) will still
    roll back the input position to the starting point for the
    @(trailer).





                                     TXR 63
                                   2012-03-30


  Features

  - Significant improvement in the performance of the garbage collector,
    which can drastically cut the run-time of some programs.
  - match-str and match-str-tree functions exposed.
  - new @(rebind) directive provides for a one step dynamic shadowing
    of a variable with a local variable, whose value can be derived from
    the one being shadowed.
  - filters now work on nested lists of strings, not just strings.
  - floating point formatting now produces the same exponential notation
    on different platforms, by post-filtering the sprintf output:
    a leading + and leading zeros are removed: e+023 becomes e23.
  - new functions: num-str, tan, asin, acos, =, 
  - min and max return the left operand rather than the right one,
    when two operands are equal.


  Bugs

  - search-str optional argument was not working when omitted.
  - Fixed situations involving an incorrect behavior: partial horizontal
    matches (not matching the full line) were succeeding.
  - It was impossible to define a pattern function called @(text)
    due to the use of the symbol text as an internal symbol, rather
    than a symbol in the private system package.
  - error checking code in funcall had an improperly terminated argument
    list, causing an exception.
  - @(output) blocks now flush their stream at the @(end), without
    which output is not correctly interleaved between output produced
    by external commands.
  - fixed some misleading exception wordings in the numeric library.
  - fixed sign semantics of floating-point mod to be like the integer mod.
  - gcd function allows zeros.
  - fixed broken exptmod: it was not normalizing bignum values that
    fall into the fixnum range into fixnum objects, resulting in 
    undersized bignums being returned.



                                     TXR 62
                                   2012-03-23


  Features

  - Floating-point support has been added. 
    - TXR programs can specify floating-point constants. 
    - Printing floting points is supported in the format function.
      - New specifiers: ~f and ~e.
    - Arithmetic on floating points, with implicit
      conversion. 
    - New / function which produces a floating-point result.
    - New functions like sin, cos, exp, and log.
    - Functions for converting between floating and integer,
      and parsing a float from a string.

  - New combinators for easier programming with higher order functions: chain,
    andf, orf, iff.

  - url_decode and url_encode functions take an optional parameter which
    determines whether + is used as the code for space, distinguishing
    URL encoding from percent encoding. Separate named filters are
    introduced: :frompercent, :topercent distinct from :fromurl and :tourl.

  Bugs

  - Buggy quicksort routine repaired. This is a recently
    added feature which allows vectors and strings to be sorted. 
    List sorting, done by merge sort, is unaffected.

  - Breakpoints can now be set by line number and file name, allowing
    breakpoints in loaded modules, not just the main module.

 
  
                                     TXR 61
                                   2012-03-15


  Features

  - URL encoding and decoding functions added, and :tourl/:fromurl
    filters implemented for output substitution.

  - split-str function works with regex objects now.

  - new regsub function for regex substitution in strings;
    matched text can be filtered through a function.

  - new *stddebug* stream used by debugger.

  - put-byte works on string output streams, and does right
    thing with mixtures of bytes (which are taken as UTF-8)
    and characters written with put-char.

  - Hash table literals implemented; hashes can now be notated
    rather than constructed.

  - Vectors can now be quasiquoted with unquote and splicing,
    and so can the new hash table literals.

  - @(block) syntax change: blocks do not extend to the end of
    the surrounding scope but introduce their own, delimited
    by @(end).

  Fixes

  - Fixed memory leak in string byte input stream.

  - Fixed wrong parsing of tokens in cases like @(collect-foo)
    where this was treated as @(collect -foo) rather than a single token.
  


                                     TXR 60
                                   2012-03-04


  Features

  - List element removing functions: remq, remql, remqual.

  - Memory use optimizations in @(freeform) horizontal scanning.

  - Improved hashing function for bignums.

  Bugs

  - Fixed incorrect processing within long lines, caused by
    earlier optimizations in 57.

  - Missing 'd' command for deleting a breakpoint implemented
    in the debugger.

  - numberp function no longer blows up on nil.

  - Fixed broken @(load) directive: was not allowing directives
    which follow it to be processed.

  - Fixed incorrectly formatted line number information in
    some exceptions.

  - Fixed missing support for optional and trailing parameters
    in defun.

  - Fixed showstopper bug in plus function.



                                     TXR 59
                                   2012-02-29


  Features

  - Implemented put-byte function on streams.

  - Regex syntax in TXR Lisp changes from /re/ to #/re/, allowing
    symbols containing slashes.

  - New -B command line option forces TXR to dump the bindings even
    if the program produced output.

  - Revised and improved txr.vim syntax highlighting file for greater
    lexical accuracy and superior flagging of errors.

  Fixes

  - Regression that broke [n..t] and [n..nil] sequence ranges.

  - Broken hex-escaped character literals.

  - Old bug from database: filter functions now see bindings in all
    contexts in which they are invoked.

  - Output clauses consisting of one empty line were being treated as empty.

  - Implemented more sane rule for deciding when output has taken place
    and suppress the printing fo bindings.



                                     TXR 58
                                   2012-02-25


  Features

  - Exception handling exposed in TXR Lisp.

  - range* function similar to range, but for generating a range with the
    endpoint excluded.

  - TXR Lisp can invoke a function in the pattern language now using
    the new match-fun function.

  - Braced variable syntax in @(output) extended to support arbitrary
    expressions in place of the variable name. The expressions are converted
    to text and then treated the same way as a variable substitution.
    Indexing is allowed, and field-formatting takes place.
    Moreover, these expressions are code-walked by @(repeat) and @(rep) to look
    for embedded variables.

  - New TXR Lisp functions ref, refset, sub and replace.

  - Indexing and range extraction in brace substitution in @(output) clauses is
    now generic over lists, vectors and strings.

  - Optional arguments introduced into TXR Lisp, in defun and lambdas,
    with a simple syntax involving a colon. Numerous intrinsic functions
    have been converted such that some previously required arguments
    are now optional.

  - Sort function that was previously for lists only is now generic over
    vectors and strings.

  - New del operator in TXR Lisp can delete elements of sequences or hashes
    which are denoted using the bracket syntax.

  - Range indexing has "floating zero" behavior now so that for
    example [seq -2 0] means the "last two elements": when the start of
    the range is negative, then a zero end is treated as length plus one.

  - TXR programs can now be split into multiple modules, using the load
    directive to load and run code.

  Bugs
  
  - range function terminates lazy list when the sequence overshoots
    the final value.

  - Variable that holds nil is treated as a list in (set [var x..y] ...)
    range assignment.

  - Vestigial (t . obj) representation in exception handling code removed.

  - TXR now does not not dump bindings if any output occured on a stream
    connected to the C stdout stream. Previously, it suppressed printing
    of bindings if @(output) was carried out on the *std-output* stream.

  - Function remhash was found to be buggy and rewritten.



                                     TXR 57
                                   2012-02-14


  Features

  - Operations under the @(freeform) directive can now scan in constant memory,
    allowing large files to be processed.  (Scanning a single regex still
    requires the data to be all in memory: an experimental patch for this
    exists.)

  - Improved printing of character position context in debugger when lines are
    long.

  - Metanums (@1, etc) can be used in a quasiliteral, which is useful for
    quasiliterals occuring inside the op notation.

  Bugs

  - lazy-flatten function did not handle atoms. This broke @(next :list expr)
    also, for the case where expr evaluates to a string atom.

  - In format, the ~s directive was found to be printing strings in the same
    way as ~a.

  - Hex and octal character constants did not work.

  - Control characters in strings and characters are printed as hex now rather
    than octal. A semicolon is added if the next character would be interpreted
    as part of the escape.

  - Hash indexing via the [] notation was still requiring the default value
    argument.



                                     TXR 56
                                   2012-02-06


  Features

  - Hex and octal escapes work in strings and quasilterals now: the
    documentation has stopped lying. 
    - Escapes can be followed by a semicolon which terminates them and is
      removed, which is useful if an escape is followed by characters
      that would otherwise be interpreted as part of the escape.

  - More color categories and more accurate syntax in Vim syntax
    highlighting file. Highlights @[...] syntax properly inside quasiquote.

  - The third argument (the default value if a key is not found) can be omitted
    when indexing hashes with the [hash key] syntax. It defaults to nil.

  - The dwim operator (and thus [] syntax) is even more Lisp-1 like. It
    now has Lisp-1 namespace semantics for evaluating arguments
    that are symbols.

  - A new operator called "op" as been added. This allows simple lambda
    functions to be written as partial evaluatios of functions, with implicit
    arguments as well as numbered/rest arguments appearing in the body.


  Bugs

  - Fixed missing type check in hash module that allows bad code
    to crash interpreter instead of getting an excepion.

  - Fixed regression in TXR 55 which broke computed field widths in output
    variables.

  - Fixed incorrect UTF-8 decoding of some code points.

  - Closed several security holes in UTF-8 decoder by recognizing all invalid
    UTF-8 sequences, and mapping invalid bytes in such a way that any byte
    sequence processed by the decoder into Unicode code points will be
    recovered exactly when encoded back into UTF-8.



                                     TXR 55
                                   2012-01-26


  Features

  - New square bracket syntax for Lisp-1 like invocation
    and array-indexing over lists, vectors, strings and hashes.

  - New a .. b pair syntactic sugar for (cons a b).
    Works with array indexing brackets to extract ranges
    (slices) from lists, vectors and strings.

  - Indexed elements and slices are assignable.

  - In the pattern language, variables in output templates (output variables)
    can be indexed and sliced.
  
  - Output variables that hold lists are now interpolated with spaces
    between, and this can be overridden with any separator string.



                                     TXR 54
                                   2012-01-21


  Features

  - Improved debugger: 
    - step into
    - step over
    - finish
    - backtrace for pattern and TXR Lisp functions.
    - dump more complete environment. 

  - Debugging support can be disabled at compile time: configure
    with --no-debug-support.

  - New lazy append function (append*).



                                     TXR 53
                                   2012-01-11


  Features

  - In variable substitutions in output and quasiliterals, the field
    width expression is now evaluated.

  - TXR Lisp:

    - New operators and functions for generating lazy lists more conveniently. 
    - lazy mapcar and mappend: return lazy list.
    - delay and force operators.
    - parallel iteration/collection over lists.
    - list-str function for splitting string into list of characters.

  Bugs

  - Fixed global buitin variables, broken in 52. Properly implemented
    intended fix.



                                     TXR 52
                                   2012-01-07


  Features

  - @(rep) and @(repeat) now take an keyword argument, :counter.
    This specifies the name of a variable which holds the repetition
    count, thus making the count available within the repeated body.

  - New @(mod) and @(modlast) clauses in repeat/rep, allowing special
    behaviors to be coded based on whether the repetition count is
    a particular value modulo some number.

  - @(gather) directive now supports an @(until)/@(last) clause,
    so the search range can be restricted.

  - New directive @(fuzz) for doing an imprecise match over a range
    of lines, similar to the context line fuzz logic in the patch utility.

  - gensym function added to TXR Lisp, along with a *gensym-counter*
    global variable.

  Bugs

  - Fixed a regression in repeat/rep triggered when multiple clauses of the
    same type appear (like two occurences of @(last)).

  - Built-in global variables in TXR Lisp now properly denote the
    underlying C variable locations, rather than holding copies of the values
    of those variables.  If you assign to *stdout*, it will now really replace
    the stdout stream stored in the corresponding C variable (std_output), so
    it has the proper global effect. Previously, this action would just
    replace *stdout* with a new value, without any effect on std_output.



                                     TXR 51
                                   2011-12-28


  Features
  
  - Better algorithm in the random function for generating evenly-distributed
    pseudo-random numbers of arbitrary precision.

  - PRNG startup behavior improved.

  - New lazy-flatten function for flattening lists lazily. Used within
    @(next :list ...) implementation, making it possible to scan through
    Lisp-generated lazy lists.

  Bugs

  - Fixed showstopper bug introduced in a patch for the MPI library,
    affecting 32 bit platforms.

  - Fixed bug in Lisp expression interpolation in quasiliterals.

  - Fixed fatal exception being thrown in verbose mode, by one of
    the formatted print statements.



                                     TXR 50
                                   2011-12-23


  Features
  
  - Dropped silly leading 0 from version number. :)

  - New vector functions: copy-vec, sub-vec, cat-vec.

  - New API for pseudo-random-number generation, complete with
    independent random state objects that can be seeded and copied.

  - Vim syntax highlighting definition improvements.

  - In the format function, left-adjustment is specified using <
    rathr than the - character. (However a negative width specified
    as an argument using * still means left adjust.)  The leading
    zero for zero padding as well as the sign character (space or +)
    are specified in the precision field, not the width field.

  - More complete documentation.

  - Slight return value convention change in some and all functions.

  - Added memql function.

  Bugs

  - Critical flaw in hashing fixed that could crash on some platforms.

  - Exception handling fix: if a catch clause performs a
    non-local exit, the finally clause is still executed.

  - "make distclean" fixed.

  - Fix for differences in syntax error diagnosis between Byacc and Bison.

  - Fixed a memory leak in a division-by-zero case in the bignum mod
    function.

  - Fixed a terrible bug in one of the MPI patches affecting the correctness
    of various operations on numbers having a 1 in the most significant
    bit position of the most significant digit word.

  - Fixes in format function. All objects obey field width and left/right
    alignment. Numeric precision, zero padding and optional sign all works.

  - Lisp code evaluated in @(repeat)/@(rep) clauses can now see all variables,
    not just the ones subject to the repeat. (But whether or not a repeat
    executes, or which clauses, is still independent of what variables
    are accessed by the embedded Lisp, taking into account only the variables
    directly embedded in the clause.)



                                    TXR 049
                                   2011-12-19


  Features

  - New functions for converting between characters and integers.

  - Some arithmetic and relational operations are generic over characters in a
    way that makes sense.

  - dohash establishes anonymous block.

  - Improvements in Vim syntax highlighting file.

  - Lazy cons semantics cleaned up making lazy list programming easier.

  - Some API renaming and restructuring in the area of vectors.

  - Semicolon comments supported in Lisp code and @; comments in the pattern
    matching language. @# becoming obsolescent.

  - Not function, synonym for null.
  
  - Some progress in TXR Lisp documentation.

  - Hashing functions improved for fixnums, literals and characters.

  - API for introspecting over interpreted functions added, in anticipation
    of doing some compiler work.

  - Quasiliteral strings supported in TXR Lisp.

  Bugs

  - Broken abs function fixed for bignums.

  - mappend semantics clarified and fixed: behaves like append for
    improper lists and atoms.
 
  - Bugfix in code walker for let/let* forms, which resulted in quasiquotes
    not being expanded.

  - Fixed incorrect format arguments in some error messages, resulting
    in aborts in some error cases, instead of the intended diagnostics.



                                    TXR 048
                                   2011-12-13


  Features

  - New functions: expt, exptmod, sqrt, numberp, evenp, oddp, abs, gcd
    reduce-left, reduce-right.

  - Replaced horribly slow square root in MPI with a less horribly slow one.

  Bugs

  - Fixed numerous instances, in the MPI library, of coding broken
    for mpi_digit wider than 16 bits, leading to incorrect results and
    crashes.

  - Fixed mpi_int for 32 bit platforms so that obj_t stays 4 pointers wide.
    (The sign becomes a 1 bit wide bitfield).



                                    TXR 047
                                   2011-12-12


  Features

  - Transparent bignum arithmetic: when operations on machine word (fixnum)
    integers overflow, multi-precision (bignum) integers are produced.

  - TXR Lisp:

    - New operators: progn, flip.
    - Vector functions added, and vecref is an assignment place.
    - Character manipulation functions.
    - Association list functions.
    - Implicit anonymous block around forms for loop.
    - Implicit named block around forms for loop.
    - Nump renamed to fixnump.
    - Push arguments reversed: (push obj list).

  - Syntax highlighting definition update for all new operators.

  Bugs
  
  - Another bugfix to character literals, allowing non-alphanumeric
    constants like #\$.

  - Fix in rplacd to make lazy list programming feasible.

  - Reversed assoc and assq arguments throughout codebase.

  - Debugger: repeating last command by pressing Enter works again.



                                    TXR 046
                                   2011-12-06


  Features
  
  - Vector-related functions exposed in Lisp interpreter.

  - Syntax added for specifying vector literals in code.

  - Length function made generic over strings, lists and vectors.

  Bugs

  - Broken get_line function over string input streams fixed.

  - Some kinds of character literals were not being recognized properly.

  - bugfixes in configure script, affecting 64 bit Mac OS X. Thanks
    to Andy Wildenberg for reporting issue and confirming root cause.



                                    TXR 045
                                   2011-12-05


  Features
  
  - New functions exposed in Lisp interpreter: strings, characters,
    symbols and lazy lists.

  Bugs

  - Flaws in some string-splitting functions identified and fixed.

  - Bugs in quasiquote.

  - Handling of singleton clauses in cond operator.



                                    TXR 044
                                   2011-12-01


  Features

  - Lisp interpreter added.

  - Relaxed rules for what constitutes symbol names.


  Bugs

  - Regression in source location tracking (line numbers
    shown in debugger and trace output).

  - Regression in vertical skip directive caused it to ignore
    its arguments.

  - Fixed :vars () in collect/coll not working as intended.
    This should prevent any bindings from being collected, and
    allows iteration with collect without accumulating memory.

  - Two-year-old bug in weak hash tables.




                                    TXR 043
                                   2011-11-23


  Bugs

  - Buggy @(eol) directive fixed.

  - Semantics change for text and regular expressions in "negative match":
    - a variable is considered to be followed by a run of text which
      consists of any mixture of regexes and literal text
    - thus @foo bar behaves properly once again; it is not treated
      as foo followed by the regex / +/, ignoring the text bar.

  - Infinite looping bug in negative match with longest-match semantics.

  - Bug in the overflow detection in the lib.c plus and minus function.




                                    TXR 042
                                   2011-11-20


  Features

  - Access to environment via @(next :env)
  - New @(gather) directive for matching out-of-order material.

  - Horizontal functions:
    - TXR can now parse grammars.
    - Variable syntax allows capture of text spanned by function calls:
      e.g. @{var (func x y)}: text spanned by (func x y) goes into var.

  - Horizontal modes for numerous directives such as @(bind), @(local), ...

  - Lisp-style bindings output.

  - Interactive breakpoint/step debugger added.
    This is an experimental prototype, but already quite useful.

  - Directives following a variable match have searching semantics now,
    as do function calls. @a@(foo) will scan for a match for @(foo),
    and the text skipped over is captured by a.

  - New :resolve keyword in @(some) directive allowing conflicting
    variable bindings to be set in separate clauses and resolved.

  - deffilter is more powerful: arguments are evaluated so filters can
    be computed by the query.

  Bugs

  - Horizontal @(some) directive hooked in.

  - @(freeform) with no data fails to match instead of throwing strange error.

  - Setting non-local variables from a function works now.

  - Stability fix: several long-time uninitialized variable bugs found,
    and some faulty object initialization orders.

  - :vars in @(collect)/@(coll) does not fire an exception about missing
    required variables if no variable bindings are produced at all,
    allowing strict collects to have explicit matches for unwanted material
    without triggering this nuisance error.

  - @(repeat)/@(rep) allow empty body.

  Internal

  - New infrastructure for matching location info to source forms.
    Location info (currently just the line number) is associated with
    source forms via a weak hash table.

  - Character literals are now Lispy (hash-backslash syntax), based on Scheme.

  - Added quote, unquote and splicing syntax similar to Lisp. Not used
    for anything yet.

  - Improved Valgrind integration: more accurate, timely detection of
    uninitialized fields in heap objects.

  Misc.

  - A TXR syntax highlighting file for the Vim editor exists
    now. See the txr.vim file.




                                    TXR 041
                                   2011-10-30


  Features

  - New :append keyword in @(output) to append instead of overwriting.

  - Variable contents can be treated as input sources using :string
    and :list keywords in @(next). Variables can be treated as output
    destinations using :into keyword in @(output).

  - New @(set) directive for destructive assignment to a variable.

  - New filters: :upcase and :downcase.

  - @(bind) can now compare left and right objects through filters.

  - Filters can now be chained into compound filters.

  - Pattern matching functions can be used as filters.

  - Shorthand notation in @(deffilter) when multiple strings map to the
    same replacement string.

  - @(cat) directive changes syntax.

  - Error handling improvements in parser: no more reams and reams of
    errors.


  Bugs

  - Runaway recursion in @(block) directive, introduced in 040.

  - Fixed bug in matching list variable against text, at the same
    time clarifying semantics to longest-match.

  - Fixed potential excessive memory use caused by refactoring in 040.