Discussion of these changes can be found on the Mercury developers
mailing list archives from June 2018.
COPYING.LIB:
Add a special linking exception to the LGPL.
*:
Update references to COPYING.LIB.
Clean up some minor errors that have accumulated in copyright
messages.
Estimated hours taken: 1
Branches: main, release
Cleanups for the complex numbers library.
extras/complex_numbers/*.m:
extras/complex_numbers/samples/fft.m:
extras/complex_numbers/tests/complex_test.m:
Convert these modules to four-space indentation.
Conform to our current coding standard.
Estimated hours taken: 0.1
Branches: main, release
extras/complex_numbers/*.m:
extras/complex_numbers/samples/fft.m:
extras/complex_numbers/tests/complex_test.m:
Standardize the module qualifier used in this modules
to `.'.
Estimated hours taken: 0.5
Branches: main
Fix up some minor things in the extras distribution.
extras/cgi/Mmakefile:
Don't warn about mercury_www not exporting anything.
extras/complex_numbers/*.m:
Replace `:' as the module qualifier.
Use float.float/1 instead of the now obsolete
int.to_float/2.
extras/concurrency/midimon.m:
Replace `:' as the module qualifier.
extras/trailed_update/Mmakefile:
Don't warn about trailed_update not exporting anything.
extras/xml/*.m:
Replace `:' as the module qualifier.
Remove some unnecessary imports.
Put an underscore in front of an unused variable.
Estimated hours taken: 0.5
Branches: main, release
extras/complex_numbers/*.m:
Remove reverse modes of arithmetic functions (as with the
reverse modes of the functions in float.m, these functions
aren't actually reversible because of rounding errors).
extras/complex_numbers/complex_numbers.m:
Add missing `:- include module' declarations for complex_float.m
and float_complex.m.
extras/complex_numbers/complex_float.m:
extras/complex_numbers/float_complex.m:
Fix some compile errors.
NEWS:
Document the changes.
Estimated hours taken: 0.75
Use sub-modules to package up the modules in extras/complex_numbers
into a single module.
extras/complex_numbers/complex_lib.m:
extras/complex_numbers/complex_numbers.m:
Rename complex_lib.m as complex_numbers.m,
and modify it to use sub-modules.
extras/complex_numbers/*.m:
extras/complex_numbers/tests/complex_test.m:
extras/complex_numbers/samples/fft.m:
Add `complex_numbers:' to all of the `:- module'
and `:- import_module' declarations.
extras/complex_numbers/Mmakefile:
extras/complex_numbers/tests/Mmakefile:
extras/complex_numbers/samples/Mmakefile:
Modify to reflect the renaming from `complex_lib' to
`complex_numbers'.
Estimated hours taken: 8
extras/complex_numbers/complex.m:
extras/complex_numbers/complex_float.m:
extras/complex_numbers/float_complex.m:
New modules to support complex numbers.
extras/complex_numbers/imag.m:
extras/complex_numbers/imag_complex.m:
extras/complex_numbers/complex_imag.m:
extras/complex_numbers/imag_float.m:
extras/complex_numbers/float_imag.m:
New modules to support imaginary numbers.
extras/complex_numbers/complex_test.m:
extras/complex_numbers/complex_test.exp:
Tests cases for the above-mentioned new modules.