The standard binary package has improved efficiency and error handling [1], so
in the long run we should consider switching to it. At the moment, using it is
possible but not recommended, since it results in incomatible PGF files.
The modified modules from the binary package have been moved from
src/runtime/haskell to src/binary.
[1] http://lennartkolmodin.blogspot.se/2013/03/binary-07.html
* In the shell, the new command tt (to_trie) merges a list of trees into a
trie and prints it in a readable way, where unique subtrees are marked with
a "*" and alternative subtrees are marked with numbers.
* In the PGF web service, adding the parameter trie=yes to the parse and
translate commands augments the JSON output with a trie.
Example to try in the shell:
Phrasebook> p -lang=Eng "your son waits for you" | tt
The following are the outcomes:
- Predef.nonExist is fully supported by both the Haskell and the C runtimes
- Predef.BIND is now an internal compiler defined token. For now
it behaves just as usual for the Haskell runtime, i.e. it generates &+.
However, the special treatment will let us to handle it properly in
the C runtime.
- This required a major change in the PGF format since both
nonExist and BIND may appear inside 'pre' and this was not supported
before.
The fact that identifiers are represented as ByteStrings is now an internal
implentation detail in module GF.Infra.Ident. Conversion between ByteString
and identifiers is only needed in the lexer and the Binary instances.
Most of the explicit uses of ByteStrings were eliminated by using identS,
identS = identC . BS.pack
which was found in GF.Grammar.CF and moved to GF.Infra.Ident. The function
prefixIdent :: String -> Ident -> Ident
allowed one additional import of ByteString to be eliminated. The functions
isArgIdent :: Ident -> Bool
getArgIndex :: Ident -> Maybe Int
were needed to eliminate explicit pattern matching on Ident from two modules.
Before, they were silently converted to linear patterns.
Nonlinear patterns in MorphoCat.gf, ParadigmsGre.gf and ParadigmsFin.gf have
been make linear by renaming pattern variables.
The refresh pass does not correctly keep track of the scope of local variables
and can convert things like \x->(\x->x) x into \x1->(\x2->x2) x2. Fortunately,
it appears that the refresh pass is not needed anymore, so it has been removed.
The function GF.Grammar.PatternMatch.isInConstantForm returned False for all
tables, causing matchPattern to fail, claiming that "variables occur in" the
term if it contains tables.
This problem is several years old, confirmed present in GF 3.2.10 (Oct 2010).
When a browser requests a URL that refers to a directory, web server usually
redirect the browser to the same URL with a trailing '/' added, if one was not
already present. This is to prevent relative links in the returned document
from being interpreted relative to the parent directory instead of the current
document. This type of redirection was missing in gf -server.
By adding a header
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
to the HTTP responses, web browsers are informed that it is OK to call the
services from web pages hosted on other sites.
This is apparently supported in most modern browsers, so it should no longer
be necessary to resort to JSONP.
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/Access_control_CORS
The package network-2.4.1.1 thoughlessly introduced a backward incompatible
change to the function Network.URI.unEscapeString, see
f2168b1f89
This also affects the function Network.Shed.Httpd.queryToArguments, which is
used in GFServer.hs.
To remain compatible with older and newer versions of the network package,
we need to stay clear of queryToArguments and unEscapeString. A replacement
function has been added to server/URLEncoding.hs.
Also in Commands.hs: be explicit about things imported from the PGF library
that are not in the public API.
Also a couple of haddock documentation fixes.
When compiling a grammar containing characters that are not supported in the
current locale, warning messages could cause GF fail with
hPutChar: invalid argument (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character)
With this quick fix, warning messages that can not be displayed are silently
truncated instead, and compilation continues.
This should prevent errors like
Internal error in Compute.ConcreteNew:
Applying Predef.drop: Expected a value of type String, got VFV [VString "gewandt",VString "gewendet"]
