Logtalk 3.74.0 released

[pmoura]

Logtalk 3.74.0 is now available for downloading at:

https://logtalk.org/

This release improves the linter warnings for unsound constructs in grammar rules and for if-then-else and soft-cut control constructs; improves the semantics and implementation of several multi-threading features; fixes compilation of phrase/2-3 goals where the first argument is a (::)/1-2 or (^^)/2 control construct with a variable grammar rule body argument; fixes a regression where a compiler error when a source file term is not callable would be delegated to the backend; improves the Handbook documentation of several directives and built-in predicates; improves the Handbook documentation on dynamic predicates and grammar rules; adds a listing library (replacing the old undocumented one); adds a recorded_database library to help porting legacy Prolog code; fixes json library bugs; updates the help tool support to browse the Handbook and APIs documentation from the top-level; changes the default output directory for the diagrams tool to ./dot_dias; updates the tutor tool for all recent linter updates; fixes a syntax error in the logtalk_tester.ps1 script; improves the portability of the fcube port; updates the Advent of Code 2023 examples and several of the multi-threading examples; adds additional tests for the de facto standard format/2-3 predicates and for the multi-threading built-in predicates; updates support for several text editors and syntax highlighters; updates the manual installation script to inform the user about the INFOPATH environment variable; fixes the Bash shell embedding scripts to actually use the default settings file when no -s option is passed; and includes portability updates for CxProlog, LVM, SICStus Prolog, SWI-Prolog, XSB, and YAP. Thanks to Yurii Rashkovskii for his bug reports and suggestions.

For details and a complete list of changes, please consult the release notes at:

https://github.com/LogtalkDotOrg/logtalk3/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md