DADiSP 6.0 B18 Release Notes

Build 15 Release - February 22, 2006

Build 15 is a minor update of DADiSP 6.0 (DADiSP 6.0 is also known as DADiSP/2002).

Build 15 Specific Changes

Below is a list of changes and improvements specific to DADiSP 6.0 Build 15:

1. New, fast inplace @= append operator. a @= b is equivalent to append(a, b).
2. New @@ concat operator. a = b @@ c is equivalent to a = concat(b, c).
3. New STARTINDEX function sets the array starting index for the current SPL function.
4. 30% Faster FOR and LOOP functions.
5. Faster inplace ++, --, +=, -=, *=, /= operators.
6. Faster global variable access.
7. Faster ONES, ZEROS, RAND and RANDN routines use the new built-in GVALARRAY function.
8. SPL will interpret included .mac files as macros.
9. MACREAD handles macros files with #define declarations.
10. READT_INF configuration parameter specifies alternate "inf" (infinity) string for READT and data import.
11. READT_NA configuration parameter specifies alternate "na" (not a number) string for READT and data import.
12. (a[j], a[k]) = (b[l], b[m]) multiple array assignment supported.
13. a = 10^300 automatically promotes the result to double precision if necessary.
14. mymacro(a[1]) works properly for macros.
15. x % 0 works properly for series and reals.