PLNews: Programming Language News

Sleep 2.1-b24 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: improved support for circular data structures, a taint mode, and other changes.

Sleep 2.1-b23 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: changed return value types of certain sleep.interfaces.Loadable methods, new command line options for printing timing and profiling information for a script, basic cycle detection for the SleepUtils.describe method, and other changes.

Sleep 2.1-b22 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: ordered hash improvements, profiler accuracy improvements, and other changes.

Sleep 2.1-b20 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: warnings when modifications of read-only arrays and hashes are attempted, the evaluation of $null as null rather than "" when passed as a Java string, support for $null elements in Sleep arrays when converting to Java arrays, bug fixes, and other changes.

Sleep 2.1-b19 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: callcc support, support for inline functions, improved fault tolerance, and other changes.

Sleep 2.1-b18 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: the addition of scalar references, the addition of the backtick operator for spawning an external program, improved Java method resolution, and other changes.

Sleep 2.1-b17 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: the addition of a literal form for Java classes, assertions that accept an optional message parameter, bug fixes, and other changes.

Sleep 2.1-beta 16 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: a new debugging mode for tracing predicate evalutions, code cleanups, support for passing hashes/arrays as named parameters to closures, plus other changes and fixes.

Sleep 2.1-beta 15 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: the addition of an assert command, a reworking of the conversion of array scalars to native Java arrays, plus other changes and bug fixes.

Sleep 2.1 beta 14 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: array function support for negative parameters as offsets from the total length of the array, a splice function, automatic flushing of the regex pattern cache, support for importing from jar files with spaces in the filename, plus other changes and bug fixes.

Sleep 2.1-b12 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: support for including external files into the current script, improved string handling functions, support for byte buffers, a rewrite of the interpreter and parser handling of parsed literals, plus other changes.

Sleep 2.1 beta 11 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: an -a/--ast command line option for dumping an AST of a script, a built-in profiler, plus other changes and fixes.

Sleep 2.1 beta 10 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: improved Unicode support for the I/O functions, support for specifying 8- and 16-bit characters within parsed literal strings, new assignment operators, plus other improvements and fixes.

Sleep 2.1 beta 9 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: scalars that are serializable; a significant performance fix; support for parsing and syntax checking, but not running, a script; plus other changes and fixes.

Sleep 2.1 beta 8 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: changes to the string representation of closures, support for sharing the "this" scope among closures, enhancements to &exec to allow specification of a starting directory and an environment, console updates, plus other changes and fixes.

Sleep 2.1b7 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: support for the application of the index operator to closures, the addition of an -isfunction predicate to check if a scalar contains a function, an &invoke function to dynamically invoke functions, plus other changes.

Sleep 2.1 beta 6 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: improved support for coroutines, support for semaphores, plus other changes.

Sleep 2.1 beta 5 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: a rewrite of the Sleep->Java method and constructor resolution, the addition of the casti function to cast Sleep scalars to various Java primitives, functions to checksum and digest I/O handles or byte data, plus other changes and fixes.

Sleep 2.1 beta 4 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: support for loading of classes from third-party jars using import, support for the tracing of function calls, a literal form for creating arrays and hashes, plus other changes and bugfixes.

Sleep 2.1b3 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: support for a 'strict' mode that warns about undeclared variables, support for setting and querying the current debug level, plus other changes and bugfixes.