Work on various features of Vicare. Some errors in the typed language implementation have been fixed.
The documentation of the typed language is now in its own Texinfo file
vicare-typed.texi; so the documentation in Info format is now browsable from
the terminal with the command info vicare-typed, or by opening the main
Info file info vicare-scheme and then selecting the main menu entry
types. In this file: the documentation of the built–in types
(<fixnum>, <string>, et cetera) has gone a bit out of sync; I am trying
to catch up, also changing the format of the methods’ description.
The safe syntactic bindings for handling structures are now in the library
(vicare system structs); their documentation has been moved under the node
syslib of the main documentation file vicare-scheme.texi. The
unsafe syntactic bindings for handling structures are still in the library
(vicare system $structs). This breaks backwards compatibility.
The library (vicare net channels) has been rewritten under the typed
language; this was a good exercise that uncovered problems and errors in the typed
language. This is not a library I am particularly proud of, but… whatever. It
is there and (like everything else) it can be further developed to make it better.
While doing revisions of libraries under the (vicare ---) hierarchy: I am
updating their version numbers. I am copying the scheme of the
Industria package2, which (up to version 1.4) used the triplet year number, month number,
day number in the version specification of libraries. I am using such triplet after
the major and minor version numbers; so now I have library names like (vicare
net channels (0 4 2016 10 20)). Good? Bad? Time will tell.
There is a problem: how do I put the library version number in the Texinfo documentation? Should I update it by hand? Should I update it with some automation script? Up to now I have been very sloppy with this important information.
By the way: I should pull the latest changes from the upstream package into my repackaging for Vicare at Industria.