New CLISP version

[haible (Bruno Haible)]

Once more, there is a new version of CLISP at the usual place:
ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de:/pub/lisp/clisp/source .

Excerpt from the change log:

Important note
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* Changed bytecode format. All .fas files generated by previous CLISP versions
  are invalid and must be recompiled.

User visible changes
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* X3J13 vote <12> is partially implemented: Native CLOS. New package CLOS
  containing the macros
    DEFCLASS, DEFMETHOD, DEFGENERIC, GENERIC-FUNCTION, GENERIC-FLET,
    GENERIC-LABELS, WITH-SLOTS, WITH-ACCESSORS,
  the functions
    FIND-CLASS, (SETF FIND-CLASS), CLASS-OF, CLASS-NAME, (SETF CLASS-NAME),
    SLOT-VALUE, SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-MAKUNBOUND, SLOT-EXISTS-P,
    CALL-NEXT-METHOD, NEXT-METHOD-P,
    NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD, NO-PRIMARY-METHOD, NO-NEXT-METHOD,
    FIND-METHOD, ADD-METHOD, REMOVE-METHOD, COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS,
    METHOD-QUALIFIERS, FUNCTION-KEYWORDS, SLOT-MISSING, SLOT-UNBOUND,
    PRINT-OBJECT, DESCRIBE-OBJECT, MAKE-INSTANCE, INITIALIZE-INSTANCE,
    REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, SHARED-INITIALIZE,
  the classes
    STANDARD-CLASS, STRUCTURE-CLASS, BUILT-IN-CLASS, STANDARD-OBJECT,
    STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION, STANDARD-METHOD and all predefined classes,
  and the method combination
    STANDARD.
  See impnotes.txt for details. X3J13 vote <13> is implemented, too.

* X3J13 vote <63> is implemented: DESCRIBE receives the output stream as
  optional argument. New function CLOS:DESCRIBE-OBJECT.

* X3J13 vote <149> is implemented: The second argument to SUBSEQ may now
  be NIL. Thanks to Thomas Kirk.

* X3J13 vote <175> is implemented: TAILP now also works on dotted lists.

* X3J13 vote <124> is implemented: (DECLARE (OPTIMIZE (DEBUG ...))) is legal.

* The type specifier (EQL object), a synonym for (MEMBER object), is now
  implemented.

* New DEFSTRUCT option :INHERIT which is exactly like :INCLUDE except that it
  doesn't create new accessors for the inherited slots. Use this option to
  avoid the problems that occur when using the same :CONC-NAME for the new
  and the inherited structure.

* Fixed EXPORT and USE-PACKAGE: Don't signal a name conflict between the
  symbol being exported and a symbol accessible in the using package if
  the latter symbol is on the list of shadowing symbols of the using package.

* Fixed VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND. It now works on vectors of dimension 0 and
  on bit-vectors.

* Fixed PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT: Don't output adjacent spaces.

* Fixed a bug in the reader that caused an endless loop or endless recursion
  when resolving #n=/#n# references in objects that already contained cyclic
  data structures, e.g. when reading (#1=a #.'#2=(b . #2#) #1#).

* Fixed a bogus error message in the complex number reader.

Portability
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* The DOS README explains how to run CLISP in the DOS box of Microsoft
  Windows. Thanks to Ralf Muschall.

* Added Sinix support. Thanks to Manfred Weichel.

* Improved installation on OS/2.

Other modifications
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* A function proclaimed INLINE will be taken inline in a wider set of
  circumstances. (Previously INLINE worked only when that function was being
  used in the same file or in a file that REQUIREd the file defining the
  function.)

* The compiler now produces better code for (APPLY (FUNCTION fun) args).

* Changed the default memory size from 2 megabytes to 2.5 megabytes.

* Miscellaneous documentation updates.


                    Bruno Haible
                    haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de