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Kawa 1.8 Beta Available
Languages :: Scheme
Kawa 1.8 Beta has been released. It is a Scheme implementation which emits Java bytecode.
This release includes support for a shorthand method of accessing instance methods, support for SRFI 39, a rewrite of the symbol and namespace handling, more efficient character comparisons, a major rewrite of the macro handling and hygiene framework, a new function calling convention, plus more.
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