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[Chicken-announce] [ANN] Development snapshot 5.0.1 now available


From: Peter Bex
Subject: [Chicken-announce] [ANN] Development snapshot 5.0.1 now available
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 16:19:51 +0100
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Hi all!

A new development snapshot (5.0.1) is now available:
https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2019/01/12/chicken-5.0.1.tar.gz

This is the first snapshot in the 5.x release series.  The most
important change is that this version changes how "qualified" symbols
are read.  These are symbols like ##sys#map or ##core#inline.  In
older versions, these symbols would be interned into a string that had
as its first byte the length of the "namespace", like "\003sysmap" or
"\004coreinline".

This caused problems when printing non-qualified symbols that contained
such low bytes.  See https://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1077 for more
information.  Changing this representation is backwards-incompatible,
which means that the git version of CHICKEN must now be built with a
CHICKEN that's from this snapshot or newer.

There's a complete list of changes since the 5.0.0 release in the
NEWS file: https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2019/01/12/NEWS

We would encourage all of our more adventurous users to try running
their code under this snapshot.  If you run into any problems with
the new snapshot, please let us know.

Regards,
The CHICKEN Team

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