From: Matthew Flatt <mflatt@cs.utah.edu>
To: plt-scheme@fast.cs.utah.edu
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:36:59 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: 199.14

The v200-tagged code in CVS for MzScheme and MrEd is now version 199.14.

Changes:

 * Converted many MrEd classes to have by-name initialization
   arguments. The order is unchanged from previous versions of MrEd,
   but arguments have been added. For example, the complete list of
   frame% argument is now: `label’, `parent’, `width’, `height’, `x’,
   `y’, `style’, `enabled’, `border’, `spacing’, `alignment’,
   `min-width’, `min-height’, `stretchable-width’, and
   `stretchable-height’. Another notable addition is the
   `paint-callback’ argument to canvas%, which sets the default action
   of the `on-paint’ method.

   In some cases, a class was not converted because the constructor is
   overloaded (e.g., color%, which takes either a color name or three
   numbers). Overloading doesn’t map well to keywords.

   In the documentation, the converted classes are described with
   `instantiate’ instead of `make-object’ (though `make-object’ still
   works, too, since no old arguments were removed or reordered).

 * Changed slightly the way initialization arguments are handled in
   the class system (defined by the "class.ss" library).

   1) When by-position arguments are converted to by-name arguments,
      and when there are more by-position arguments than init
      variables in the instantiated class, then the leftover arguments
      are converted using the superclass’s init variables, and so
      on. If a class contains an `init-rest’ declaration without a
      variable, then leftover by-position arguments are instead
      rejected with a "too many arguments" error. (If the class
      contains an `init-rest’ declaration with a variable, then the
      leftover by-position arguments are accumulated into a list.)

      Consequently, a class like

            (class frame%
              (super-instantiate ()))

      accepts by-position arguments just like frame%.

      The expansion of a `class100’ form always has an `init-rest’
      clause.

   2) Multiple by-name arguments can use the same name, which is
      potentially useful when an initialization variable is shadowed
      by a derived class; by-name arguments are consumed leftmost
      first, and implicit arguments to `super-instantiate’ or
      `super-init’ are always added to the right of the argument list.
      The main consequence is in error reporting; illegal by-name
      arguments that happen to have the same name as an internal
      superclass argument (i.e., internal in the sense that a
      corresponding value is provided to `super-instantiate’ or
      `super-init’) are reported as unused arguments, instead of
      duplicate arguments.

 * When a (Unix-format) relative-path string is used with `require’,
   an exception is raised if the path contains anything other than
   alpha-numeric characters, -, _, ., and space, or if the path
   contains a leading or trailing slash.

 * Added `module-compiled-imports’.

 * Fixed syntax bugs introduced in 199.13.

 * Revised and indexed new parts of the MzScheme manual.

The MzScheme, MzLib, and MrEd document bundles have been updated.

Matthew