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27 Sep 2022

22:36 Design #1698 (In Progress): indent: return a string?

If we choose not to return a string then, for the benefit of #750, the
function could anyway print to an @OpenOStrin... John Abbott

22:33 Design #1698 (Closed): indent: return a string?

To discuss:
Should *@indent@* return a string rather than print directly onto the standard output?
The main diffe... John Abbott

22:30 Bug #716 (In Progress): NotBuiltin.cpkg5: indent for MODULE

Can we document this behaviour (since I think it is not completely self-explanatory)?
Is @F@ the best name? Might... John Abbott

22:27 Slug #750 (In Progress): C5 GUI: very slow when printing many short lines

I created a single string containing many new lines: this printed instantly.... John Abbott

22:20 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5

I am tempted to release the code as-is.
The copyright question is important only if we want to make a non GPL releas... John Abbott

26 Sep 2022

20:30 Feature #35: Optional warnings for fn-proc arity

The idea is reasonable, but I have doubts about its genuine utility.
Even the hypothetical use-cases are not very co... John Abbott

20:25 Bug #100: BringIn should map only the indets in its arg

Here is the status at 2022-09-26... John Abbott

16:13 Feature #461 (Rejected): New keyword "|->"? (same as "return")

Anna Maria Bigatti

16:13 Feature #461: New keyword "|->"? (same as "return")

John Abbott wrote:
> The idea is fairly nice, but does not bring much benefit.
> I do not relish the idea of modify... Anna Maria Bigatti

12:01 Feature #461: New keyword "|->"? (same as "return")

The idea is fairly nice, but does not bring much benefit.
I do not relish the idea of modifying the parser/interpret... John Abbott

15 Sep 2022

14:55 Design #1697: Specifying BOOST in configure

After discussions with Anna, we will try a new configure option *@--only-cocoalib@* (which supplants @--no-boost@).
... John Abbott

14:17 Design #1696 (Feedback): Which BOOST libs are actually needed?

Our tests seem to comfirm no problems (at least with recent BOOST, around 1.80).
We must update the doc.
John Abbott