[Neko] Neko 1.2 Released

[Nicolas Cannasse]

Hi list,

I'm please to announce the 1.2 Release of Neko on http://nekovm.org

This include several major changes :

   - runtime exceptions : several operations that were returning "null" 
before are now raising an exception. This is the case for invalid 
function calls (not a function or invalid number of arguments), object 
field access (for example null.x) , array access (still null if outside 
of bounds) and numerical operations.

   - linker : using "nekoc -link" you can now link a lot of .n bytecode 
files together into a single standalone .n file

   - nekoboot : this utility enable you to create standalone executables 
from a single bytecode file

   - renaming : the neko virtual machine is now named "neko" (instead of 
nekovm) and both neko and nekoml compilers are named "nekoc" and 
"nekoml". Compilers are built using nekoboot and are then standalon 
executables (this is more easy to use, simply "nekoc myfile.neko").

   - TCO : tail recursion optimizations in Neko

   - Object Prototypes : object can now have chained prototype (see 
Language Reference Documentation)

   - standard library : added UTF8 support, improved XML parser, and 
other useful primitives as well

    - licence change : Neko 1.2 is now LGPL while Neko 1.1 was GPL

Best,

Nicolas