Logtalk 3.73.0 released

[pmoura]

Logtalk 3.73.0 is now available for downloading at:

https://logtalk.org/

This release adds linter warnings for deprecated arithmetic predicates and functions; adds warnings for comparing numbers using unification; adds support for using backend-declared deprecated built-in predicates in linter warnings; improves checking the availability of predicates in user for uses/2 and use_module/2 directives; avoids false positive linter warnings about non-terminals called as predicates when the caller is a phrase-like predicate declared in the backend adapter file; improves compiler reporting of term-expansion errors; fixes unknown and undefined predicate call warnings when the calls occur in an included file to report the actual location instead of the main file; fixes printing of grammar rules linter warnings to respect the grammar_rules flag; adds adapter files support for deprecated built-in predicates and for declaring phrase-like predicates that call non-terminals; improves the Handbook grammar section now uses W3C-style EBNF syntax compatible with the Railroad Diagram Generator, also fixing typos and omissions; improves the Handbook section on parametric objects; improves the documentation of the wrapper tool; adds an experimental mutations library for generating random mutations of terms of selected types (intended for eventual fuzz testing support); adds a tsv library for reading and writing TSV files; adds new predicates and non-terminals to the types, grammars, and random libraries; improves the performance of the term_io library predicates; includes updates and fixes to the lgtunit, tutor, and wrapper tools; fixes the PowerShell documentation scripts to avoid an error when converting XML files; improves the logtalk_tester scripts detection and reporting of broken test sets due to backend bugs; adds new haunted_wasteland, scratchcards, and trebuchet examples (solving Advent of Code 2023 problems); adds new tests, updates, and fixes issues with the poem, profiling, self_vs_this, errors, bench, and benchmarks examples; adds additional tests for the phrase/2-3 built-in methods and fixes an issue with a setof/3 built-in method test; improves the macOS installer; fixes the logtalk_user_setup.ps1 PowerShell script to use a valid path for the backup directory; and includes portability updates for B-Prolog, CxProlog, ECLiPSe, LVM, and SWI-Prolog. Thanks to Domingo Alvarez Duarte and Yurii Rashkovskii for their contributions to this release.

For details and a complete list of changes, please consult the release notes at:

https://github.com/LogtalkDotOrg/logtalk3/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md