## ats2-postiats-0.1.12:

    This is the 21st 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. Fixing a bug involving the sequentiality of pattern matching.
       Please see doc/BUGS/bug-2015-04-15.dats for more on this one.
    2. Improving s2exp_syneq2 by adding a couple of missing cases:
       S2Edatcontyp and S2Edatconptr
    3. Adding patterns of the form: $tup(...) and $rec(...)
    4. Renaming the option -CSignore as --constraint-ignore:
       patscc --constaint-ignore
    5. Supporting the option to disable tail-call optimization:
       patscc --tlcalopt-disable
       patsopt --tlcalopt-disable
    6. Supporting s2rt_float and static floating-points
    7. Supporting s2rt_string and static string constants
    8. If undefined, ATS_EXTERN_PREFIX is assumed to have the value:
       "__ATS_EXTERN_PREFIX__".
    9. no exporting of r(), w() and rw() from prelude/basics_dyn.sats
    10. Fixing bug-2015-05-13:
        Handling of staloaded template implementations was incorrect
    11. Dot-symbol overloading is required to be of functional style.
        For instance,
        point.x changes to point.x()
        point.y changes to point.y()