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• Latte 2.1 released (25 October 1999)
  • Fix for gcc 2.95 compiler error
  • One more speedup -- swapped Latte definition of \while for compiled
  • New macros in standard.latte: \defmacro and \foreach

• Latte 2.0 released (21 October 1999 -- happy birthday, Latte!)
  • Speed optimizations
  • Bug fixes
  • New parser (unfortunately, syntax error reporting is slightly degraded)
  • latte-text translator (rudimentary)
  • New string inequality operators
  • New operator \funcall
  • \varref operator removed
  • New latte-html option -p for including </p> at para ends. Imperfect.
  • shdeque<> is a "shared deque" and is the basis for Latte_List
  • New error type, "Useless subexpression"
  • Bonus Perl script, html-latte.pl (converts HTML to Latte)
  • Current directory implicity searched for library files after LATTE_PATH
  • Macros, quote, and quasiquote
  • Eval rules greatly sanitized
    • Top-level forms evaluated top-down instead of inside out
    • "Visitors" no longer responsible for evaluating expressions
    • Redundant evals eliminated
    • Closure-value ambiguity eliminated
      Closures return the value of their last subexpression. Previously, closures constructed a list of all subexpression values and returned that, BUT unwrapped that list if it contained exactly one subexpression, leading to confusion for callers.

• Latte 1.1 released (10 November 1998)
  • Support for building RedHat-style RPM distributions
  • Support for MacOS and Win32
  • API documentation partially completed
  • No need to install flex to build Latte
  • Debugging output slightly improved
  • Flex-generated symbols are now renamed to avoid name clashes
  • New generic character-entity functions \ch and \chx
  • Command-line enhancements: -o FILE; and `-' means stdin
  • Error messages now give a useful backtrace

• Latte 1.0.1 released (26 October 1998)
  • Now compiles on Solaris
    ...after working around some compiler bugs
  • Fix --enable-floating-point
  • Optimize some list accesses
  • \nth now understands a negative index like \substr and \subseq do
  • Some function arguments are more rigorously range-checked
  • Error reports now count function arguments from 1, not 0
  • Fix \while so it doesn't build a useless implicit list of values

• Latte 1.0 released (21 October 1998)