PLNews: Programming Language News

Digital Mars D 0.146 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: the removal of suppport for the deprecated instance keyword, a -run command line switch, the addition of module statements to all std.typeinfo modules, improvements to std.file.listdir(), plus other changes and a number of bugfixes.

Digital Mars D 0.145 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes a number of bugfixes.

Digital Mars D 0.144 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release allows for static if to reference declarations in the same scope, and a leading . is no longer necessary for recursive template instantiations, in addition to a number of bugfixes and other changes.

Digital Mars D 0.143 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release adds std.path.expandTilde(), improves std.math, and fixes a number of bugs.

Digital Mars D 0.142 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes D interface file support, bugfixes, and other changes.

Digital Mars D 0.141 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: a .mangleof property for types which gives the mangled type name as a string, a code coverage analyzer, plus bugfixes and other changes.

D Front End for GCC 0.17 has been released. GDC adds support for D to the GNU Compiler Collection. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release: updates to DMD 0.140, fixes mixed complex/float operations on GCC 4.0, includes support for recursive calls to nested functions, and includes other changes and fixes.

Digital Mars D 0.140 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: improved promotion of names inside templates, standard runtime library improvements, support for floating point and string literals as template value arguments, plus bugfixes and other changes.

D Front End for GCC 0.16 has been released. GDC adds support for D to the GNU Compiler Collection. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release: adds support for GCC 4.0.x, is compatible with DMD 0.137, fixes bugs with concatenating an array and single elements, includes support for compiling multiple source files to a single object file with GCC 3.4.x, in addition to other changes and fixes.

Digital Mars D 0.139 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release fixes a number of regressions, and a problem with the --help switch.

Digital Mars D 0.138 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: a --help switch, the removal of std.math2.poly, constant folding of "string"[constant] and "string"[constant .. constant], DDoc improvements, plus other changes and bugfixes.

Digital Mars D 0.137 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release adds support for implicit type inference, documentation improvements, plus other changes and bugfixes.

Digital Mars D 0.136 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release adds tgamma and lgamma functions to std.math, in addition to other changes and a number of bugfixes.

Digital Mars D 0.135 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release adds colour syntax highlighting and general purpose document processing capabilities to the Ddoc documentation generator, as well as fixing erroneous Ddoc HTML output.

Digital Mars D 0.134 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes support for $1 .. $9 macro arguments, a $+ special macro, plus bugfixes and other improvements

Digital Mars D 0.133 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes improvements to Ddoc, an -o- flag to suppress object file generation, more std.math functions, and bugfixes.

Digital Mars D 0.132 has been released. It is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes Ddoc, a documentation generator for D.

Digital Mars D 0.131 has been released. It is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release fixes a problem with line number generation under Linux, in addition to other fixes.

Digital Mars D 0.130 has been released. It is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes std.math.feqrel(), std.stream updates, std.mmfile updates, plus a number of bugfixes.

Digital Mars D 0.129 has been released. It is a language designed as a successor to C++, including features such as garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, and support for design by contract.

This release includes c, w, and d postfixes to denote the type of string literals; various improvements on Linux; support in std.format for printing general arrays; plus other improvements and some bugfixes.