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diff --git a/doc/news.rst b/doc/news.rst index bc45564..da40c27 100644 --- a/doc/news.rst +++ b/doc/news.rst @@ -23,17 +23,32 @@ In summary, you should always be able to upgrade to a release which only increments ``patch``, but if either of the other two components have changed, you should review this document and see if your consfig needs updating. -1.2.4 (unreleased) +1.3.0 (unreleased) ------------------ - New reader macro ``#>>EOF>>`` which is like ``#>EOF>`` except that it skips over the remainder of the current line and its newline. This is more like - how heredocs work in other languages. For the sake of future extension, the - remainder of the line after the ``#>>EOF>>`` should not contain anything - other than a single-line comment. + how heredocs work in other languages. - (This is not a breaking change because the existing implementation for - ``#>EOF>`` does not permit using terminators beginning with ``>``.) +- Support for indented heredocs, where the indentation of the lines of the + heredoc is stripped. This mode is activated by prefixing a tilde to the + heredoc terminator. For example: + + .. code-block:: none + + (foo "argument 1" #>>~EOF>> + My line 1. + My line 2. + EOF) + + The function receives ``"My line 1.\nMy line 2."`` + + This is a minor breaking change because heredoc terminators may no longer + begin with a tilde. + +- New manual section "Reader macros" discussing Consfigurator's named + readtable, including some usage reservations for the sake of future + extension. - New tutorial, "Defining new properties". |