Change Log

Dates below are in YYYY-MM-DD format.

v0.9 - Tools

2012-04-17

Tested on: DMD 2.055 - DMD 2.059, but only partially DMD 2.057 as described below

Added support for DMD 2.059.
Removed support for DMD 2.054 and below.
GoldieLib: Renamed Language.loadCGT to Language.load.
GRMC: Grammar Compiler: Major bugs fixed:
- Fixed: Shift-Reduce conflicts aren't actually resolved at all contrary to the warning message. They are now reported and resolved by assuming "Shift" as intended.
- Fixed: Failure to resolve Shift-Reduce conflicts can result in false Reduce-Reduce conflict errors.
- Fixed: In certain cases, extra terminals incorrectly added as lookaheads. Ultimately, the parser would occasionally accept a terminal when it should have given an "Unexpected xxxx" error, which probably would have then led to an InternalException. (Root cause: Generating lookaheads mistook recursive rules for "can derive empty".)
- Fixed: In certain cases, LALR actions point to wrong state, creating extra conflict errors and possibly incorrect parsing.
- Fixed: In certain cases, LALR states are accidentally merged.
New tool: AlterCGT.
Command line options for all tools are now processed with getopt and use standard Unix conventions (even on Windows). This means what used to be -foo:bar or /foo:bar must now be written as --foo=bar or --foo bar. (But /? is still supported as an alternative to --help.)
DumpCGT: Dumps directly to a text file, not stdout.
DumpCGT: Added --out and --no-filename command line options.
GenDocs: Fixed: Code highlighted as "added" with + is followed by an excess blank line.
Parse: Fixed: Crashes when saving to XML instead of JSON.
Parse: Changed the command line options.
StaticLang: Output directory cannot be the same as Goldie's package source, to prevent overwriting Goldie's source. (But note: This detection can be fooled with symbolic links or separate installations of Goldie.)
StaticLang/Parse: Always output Unix-style \n newlines. (This is 2012 - everything relevant handles \n just fine, even on Windows. High time to standardize on it.)

v0.8 - Support DMD 2.058

2012-02-18

Tested on: DMD 2.052 - DMD 2.058, but only partially DMD 2.057 as described below (but see this note regarding RDMD from the archived Goldie documentation)

Added support for DMD 2.058.
Calculator samples now require at least DMD 2.054.
StaticLang: Static-style languages generate a proper compile-time error when used with a different version of Goldie than the one they were created with.
Now uses SemiTwist D Tools tag 'goldie-v0.8'.

v0.7 - API, 64-bit, Git

2012-01-29

Tested on: DMD 2.052 - DMD 2.056, and partially DMD 2.057 as described below (but see this note regarding RDMD from the archived Goldie documentation)

GoldieLib: Added Token.get and Token.getRequired.
GoldieLib: Added traverse for parse tree traversal.
GoldieLib: Added op overloads as a preferred alternative to Token.subX for accessing subtokens in dynamic-style.
GoldieLib: Fixed: RangeException on Token.matches("<blah>", null) (ie, when attempting to match an empty rule with matches).
Fixed Issue #20: Fails on 64-bit builds. (But note the still-open #21: 64-bit 'staticlang' and 'sampleGenericParse' blocked by DMD Issue #6983)
Switched version control from SVN/DSource to Git/BitBucket.
Added Beginner's Tutorial.
Many documentation updates/improvements including (in addition to the usual misc and API updates) an updated FAQ.
StaticLang: Creates the output path if it doesn't already exist.
Renamed "Parse Anything" sample to Sample Generic Parse (to avoid confusion with the Parse tool).
Added support for DMD 2.056. On DMD 2.057, dynamic-style works, but not static-style or grammar compiling due to DMD Issue #7375.
Now uses SemiTwist D Tools tag 'goldie-v0.7'.

v0.6 - Newer DMDs and Static Fixed

2011-10-04

Tested on: DMD 2.052 - DMD 2.055 (but see this note regarding RDMD from the archived Goldie documentation)

Added support for DMD 2.054 and 2.055. The next version of Goldie will likely require at least 2.055.
Fixed: Major bug in static-style: Some tokens erroneously refer to calc grammar no matter what grammar they're from.
Now uses SemiTwist D Tools r234

v0.5 - Speed

2011-05-17

Tested on: DMD 2.052 - DMD 2.053

Improved lexing/parsing speed by about 5x-6x.
Small additional speedup lexing languages with large character sets (such as Unicode).
GRMC: Grammar Compiler: Supports {All Valid} character set.
GRMC: Grammar Compiler: Complex grammars are compiled to CGT up to about 4x-8x faster.
GRMC: Grammar Compiler: Verbose (-v) flag shows each step and amount of time taken.
ParseAnything: No more unhandled exception when parsing a source with an error.
Fixed to work with DMD 2.053 (still works with 2.052, too).
Now uses SemiTwist D Tools r221

v0.4 - D2 and GRMC

2011-03-27

Tested on: DMD 2.052

Switched from D1/Tango to D2/Phobos.
New tool: GRMC: Grammar Compiler. Because of this, Goldie no longer requires GOLD Parser Builder.
Grammars can be compiled not only from GRMC: Grammar Compiler, but also through the D API, GoldieLib.
No longer requires xfBuild or Rebuild.
Executable filenames are now prefixed with 'goldie-' to minimize chance of collisions on the PATH.
Many misc changes/improvements to tools, API and documentation.
Now uses SemiTwist D Tools r213

v0.3 - Static-Style and Documentation

2010-07-25

Added static-style languages.
Major improvements to API for parsing errors.
Misc changes/improvements to API.
New tools: StaticLang, JsonViewer and GenDocs.
Split Calculator sample app into a dynamic-style version and a static-style version.
Greatly improved handling of Unicode.
Created complete documentation.
Now uses SemiTwist D Tools r132

v0.02 - Minor Bugfix

2009-09-09

Fixed: Rare array-out-of-bounds upon Lexer error.
Fixed: Ticket #1: Extra oddball character in lex error message's quote
Now uses SemiTwist D Tools r86

v0.01 - Initial Release

2009-08-26

Initial Release
Uses SemiTwist D Tools r82