7 * New milestone release. The Artemus language has been
8 completely rewritten to be a LISP-like, compiled
9 machine. No backward compatibility is provided (other
10 than including the old 4.x module in the distribution).
11 The new 5.x language is faster, more flexible, less
12 cumbersome (for example, there's no need for escaping
13 inner blocks that should execute only conditionally)
14 and include support for translateable strings.
19 * The `foreach' constructor now includes an optional
20 4th argument, the _header_, that will be appended
21 to the output in case it's different from the
22 previous iteration. This code block is expected to
23 contain dollar-prefixed arguments.
24 * New template function `item', to return an item
25 from a colon-separated list given its subscript.
26 * Fix `case' comparisons when the variable contains
28 * Fix loader_func() to correctly process empty
30 * Unless a very grave bug or vulnerabity is found,
31 this will be the last 4.x release; next release
32 will jump to the 5.x branch. Please take note that
33 this new branch is intentionally incompatible
34 with current one. Anyway, the Artemus4.pm module
35 and associated tools are planned to be distributed
36 with the 5.x series for a very long time.
41 * New template function `sort'.
42 * New template function `reverse'.
43 * Templates can be loaded from external sources by
44 using the new `loader_func' argument to new().
45 * The Perl module Artemus is now an alias for the
46 Artemus4 module, as a way to smooth the future
47 transition to version 5. No changes need to be
53 * New template function `case'.
54 * New template function `env', to get values from the
56 * New template function `size', to return the number
57 of elements in a colon-separated list.
58 * New template function `seq', to generate a sequence
59 between two numbers as a colon-separated list.
60 * Improved debugging information.
65 * New template function `foreach', to implement loops.
66 * New template function `set', for assigning a value to
68 * New template arithmethic functions `add' and `sub'.
69 * New template comparison functions `gt', `lt' and `eq'.
70 * New template logical functions `and', `or' and `not'.
71 * New template function `random'.
72 * Comments can now be included with the {% } markup (they
73 are deleted from the final output).
74 * Old cruft has been deleted from the script (ftp, makefile
75 and sitemap generation).
76 * Template parameters are always expanded (instead of short-
77 circuiting when one is not found).
78 * Artemus markup can be escaped to allow templates being used
79 from another ones with being executed first.