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authorArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2016-08-03 21:23:57 +0300
committerArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2016-08-03 21:23:57 +0300
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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