Logtalk 3.73.0 released

[Paulo Moura]

Hi,

Logtalk 3.73.0 is now available for downloading at:

https://logtalk.org/

This release adds linter warnings for deprecated arithmetic predicates and 
functions; adds warnings for comparing numbers using unification; adds support 
for using backend-declared deprecated built-in predicates in linter warnings; 
improves checking the availability of predicates in "user" for "uses/2" and 
"use_module/2" directives; avoids false positive linter warnings about 
non-terminals called as predicates when the caller is a phrase-like predicate 
declared in the backend adapter file; improves compiler reporting of 
term-expansion errors; fixes unknown and undefined predicate call warnings when 
the calls occur in an included file to report the actual location instead of 
the main file; fixes printing of grammar rules linter warnings to respect the 
"grammar_rules" flag; adds adapter files support for deprecated built-in 
predicates and for declaring phrase-like predicates that call non-terminals; 
improves the Handbook grammar section now uses W3C-style EBNF syntax compatible 
with the [Railroad Diagram Generator](https://www.bottlecaps.de/rr/ui), also 
fixing typos and omissions; improves the Handbook section on parametric 
objects; improves the documentation of the "wrapper" tool; adds an experimental 
"mutations" library for generating random mutations of terms of selected types 
(intended for eventual fuzz testing support); adds a "tsv" library for reading 
and writing TSV files; adds new predicates and non-terminals to the "types", 
"grammars", and "random" libraries; improves the performance of the "term_io" 
library predicates; includes updates and fixes to the "lgtunit", "tutor", and 
"wrapper" tools; fixes the PowerShell documentation scripts to avoid an error 
when converting XML files; improves the "logtalk_tester" scripts detection and 
reporting of broken test sets due to backend bugs; adds new 
"haunted_wasteland", "scratchcards", and "trebuchet" examples (solving Advent 
of Code 2023 problems); adds new tests, updates, and fixes issues with the 
"poem", "profiling", "self_vs_this", "errors", "bench", and "benchmarks" 
examples; adds additional tests for the "phrase/2-3" built-in methods and fixes 
an issue with a "setof/3" built-in method test; improves the macOS installer; 
fixes the "logtalk_user_setup.ps1" PowerShell script to use a valid path for 
the backup directory; and includes portability updates for B-Prolog, CxProlog, 
ECLiPSe, LVM, and SWI-Prolog. Thanks to Domingo Alvarez Duarte and Yurii 
Rashkovskii for their contributions to this release.

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

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

You can show your support for Logtalk continued development and success at 
GitHub by giving us a star and a symbolic sponsorship:

https://github.com/LogtalkDotOrg/logtalk3

Happy logtalking!
Paulo

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Paulo Moura
Logtalk developer