224 Release Notes

• Fixed: Semicolons inside of strings in the command prompt weren't being recognized (this is only minorly relevant because HTML allows escaping of special characters with semicolons).

• Fixed: The return key wasn't responding inside of the browser window.

• Fixed: The login prompt wasn't always correctly correlating keys to passwords.

• Fixed: The garbage collector was not marking tag strings as "in-use" so it was incorrectly junking them unless there were other references to the same string.

• Fixed: icons outside of the 11x11 client block weren't properly being refreshed.

• Fixed: Using __FILE__ inside a macro occassionally produced the wrong filename.

• Fixed: There was a bug in the proc crash diagnostic output which was inserting newlines in strange places.

• The compiler now warns about empty switch statements.

• The ] symbol may now be escaped: \] :even though it is not necessary.

• The compiler now checks to ensure that braces are balanced. Previously, indentation and braces in the code were interchangeable, but that could lead to mistakes silently sliding by. Now if you use braces, you get a double layer of consistency checking, making it almost impossible to have the compiler silently misinterpret the structure of the code.

• Proc and verb references as embedded text expressions now display the type path rather than the proc name. To get the proc name, you can assign the reference to a variable (eg var/proc/Var = /proc/MyProc) and do Var.name, Var.desc, and Var.category. You can define the variable to be either var/proc or var/verb; the two have the same effect. And of course, you are always free not to define the var type and use the ':' operator instead.

• sound(null) now halts any currently playing sounds.

• Fixed up the client command-line parser's handling of nulls. There are two classes of input types: those that can combine with others and those which cannot. Floating point values and server-lists do not combine, but everything else does. Floats don't combine because the decimal point would get confused for a "dot" number. Server-lists don't combine, because it gets too complicated to handle. Previously, non-combining arguments were always taking precedence. So, for example, if you had a text|null argument followed by a server-list argument, the server-list was always taking precedence, even when you typed in a valid text argument. Now whichever argument lands first take precedence when a valid match is found.