Date of Release: Apr 11, 2001
NOTE: This release of AMC was significantly delayed because
my IDSL circuit to home was shutdown by
Northpoint.
The following bugs have been fixed in AMC v3.7.1:
- Missing newlines in interactive mode.
- The NumberOfDecimalDigits routine could return an incorrect
answer, which could potentially cause some buffer overflows.
- The count function had a problem counting
down.
- The CGL sort utility would not properly iterate over items that did
not have an associated value.
- Many documentation bugs were fixed.
The following new features have been added to AMC v3.7.1:
- CGL enhancements:
- Added "forms," which are user-defined functions
that can selectively evaluate their arguments like built-in
functions.
- Improved template syntax
- Added continue statement to clarify improved
template syntax.
- Added list support.
- Added built-in function fn_cons for file name
abstraction.
- Added enumerators for namespaces (tables, lists, and variables)
- Added unique identifier generator function, uniq.
- Added strrepl function for string transformation.
- Added between predicate.
- Improved the mechanism for sorting data.
- Added read_intfc to obtain interface code as opposed to
propagating it.
- Added a new command to interactive mode, lkup for obtaining
information on CGL functions.