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author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2016-08-03 21:32:17 +0300 |
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committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2016-08-03 21:32:17 +0300 |
commit | 5b0b9518e94d4aee27e9b0b0617c2bdd0081592c (patch) | |
tree | 7fd96cba6b334e219bfad3a489fb41ff68cd82ee /NEWS | |
parent | 14587bf02200b8f184f19f52bbff83973d9d9197 (diff) | |
parent | 9907a598dca8f129422c42f8c4fa3b4e2c988221 (diff) | |
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@@ -59,26 +59,21 @@ Changes from 4.1.x to 4.2.0 mode when FS = " " where newline was not a field separator. The code and doc have been updated. -15. Gawk now supports strongly typed regexp constants. Such constants - look like @/.../. You can assign them to variables, pass them to - functions, use them in ~, !~ and the case part of a switch statement. - More details are provided in the manual. - -16. The new typeof() function can be used to indicate if a variable or - array element is an array, regexp, string or number. The isarray() +15. The new typeof() function can be used to indicate if a variable or + array element is an array, string or number. The isarray() function is deprecated in favor of typeof(). -17. As promised when 4.1 was released, the old extension mechanism, +16. As promised when 4.1 was released, the old extension mechanism, using the `extension' function, is now gone. -18. Support for GNU/Linux on Alpha systems has been removed. +17. Support for GNU/Linux on Alpha systems has been removed. -19. Optimizations are now enabled by default. Use the new -s/--no-optimize +18. Optimizations are now enabled by default. Use the new -s/--no-optimize option(s) to disable them. Pretty printing and profiling automatically disable optimizations so that the output program is the same as the original input program. -20. The extension API now provides a mechanism for generating nonfatal +19. The extension API now provides a mechanism for generating nonfatal error messages. Changes from 4.1.3 to 4.1.4 |