## ats2-postiats-0.0.2:

    Date: September 19, 2013

    This is the second release of ATS2, the successor of the ATS
    programming language. The compiler for ATS2 is given the name
    ATS/Positats, ATS2/Postiats or simply Postiats.

    The official website for ATS is:

    http://www.ats-lang.org

    ATS-Postiats is hosted at github:

    https://github.com/githwxi/ATS-Postiats

    Major releases of ATS2 are available at:

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/ats2-lang/

    Major releases of external packages for ATS2 are available at:

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/ats2-lang-contrib/

    Here is a list of major additions and changes since the last release:

    1. Support for classdec.
       This feature is primarily for building APIs in ATS for external
       packages written in the OOP-style.

    2. Support for ATS-package relocation.
       This feature is primarily for renaming and relocating external ATS
       packages (mostly library APIs). It is supposed to work together with
       atspkgreloc, a tool that does the actual package relocation. The tool
       is yet to be implemented.

    3. Support for dot-notation overloading:
    //
       symintr .x .y
       extern fun point_get_x (p: point): int
       extern fun point_get_y (p: point): int
       overload .x with point_get_x
       overload .y with point_get_y
    //
       These declarations enable the following:
       [p.x] translates into [point_get_x(p)]
       [p.y] translates into [point_get_y(p)]

    4. Fixing a very serious bug in pattern-matching compilation

    5. Relocating contributed packages from ats2-lang to ats2-lang-contrib

    6. Improving atslib: adding code, fixing bugs, improving documentation, etc.