Revision history for Perl extension PerlMaple.

0.03 2006-2-5
  --- Implementation
    * changed the PerlMaple error message from "PerlMaple error: XXX" to
      "PerlMaple: XXX". Indeed "errors" always frighten poeple arway.
    * added undocumented and also preliminary support for the LogCmd attribute
    * when Maple returns outputs of the type MAPLE_TEXT_WARNING, PerlMaple 
      will warn it out instead of return the string as a return value to the
      Perl programmer. (I'm sure there must be better solutions to this kind
      of things. :=))
    * fixed a bug concerning zero number of ops
    * added AUTOLOAD mechanism to PerlMaple::Expression so it now autoloads 
      Maple functions just as PerrlMaple does, which is a big win in syntax!
      Added POD docs and some tests for this new feature.
    * fixed a bug which manifest itself when a PerlMaple::Expression object
      is contructed using a Maple assignment statement (say, a command 
      containing ":=").
    * added more info (the Maple command given) to the carp/croak messages 
      issued by PerlMaple. It really eases debugging process.
    * improved the operator overloading mechanism so that PerlMaple::Expression
      objects behave like simple Perl scalar variables. Yeah, simplicity is
      the key, no extra magic is really needed.

  --- Documentation
    * updated my email address in POD to agentzh@gmail.com
    * added new TODO on facilities that imports complex perl data structure
      to Maple land
    * added one more interesting example to PerlMaple's SYNOPSIS to 
      demonstrate the elegant AUTOLOAD feature of PerlMaple::Expression.
    * added BUGS sections to both PerlMaple and PerlMaple::Expression's POD,
      mostly about the sharing of Maple evaluation contexts among PerlMaple
      objects.
    * updated the outdated "Inline::C" comment to "XS".
    * fixed the indented L<> linking in POD.
    * added $VERSION to PerlMaple/Expression.pm
    * Added TODO about making PerlMaple::Expression objects more "lazy" to 
      PerlMaple's POD.
    * Removed duplicate code coverage report from PerlMaple::Expression's 
      POD.
    * Confirmed that this lib won't work with Maple 7. Sigh.

0.02 2005-12-19
    * Added SVN link 'https://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/win32maple'
      to the POD doc.
    * On the XS side, ignored MAPLE_TEXT_STATUS output so that
      PerlMaple won't return silly things like
      "bytes used=1963, alloc=719, time=0.44".
    * Emphasized that Maple's maplec.h and maplec.lib
      must be in INC and LIB, repectively. Most of the test failure
      reports are concerning this issue.
    * Added AUTOLOAD mechanism so that any Maple functions or procedures
      all automagically become the methods of PerlMaple objects;
    * Renamed ->eval method to ->eval_cmd so that ->eval is exactly the
      Maple's counterpart.
    * ->eval is not backward-compatible.
    * Added optional options PrintError and RaiseError to the constructor
    * Added attribute methods PrintError and RaiseError
    * Fixed a bug concerning multiple PerlMaple instances creation
    * Added corresponding tests.
    * Tweaked the POD doc accordingly
    * Added the PerlMaple::Expression class to represents a Maple expression ASTs.
    * PerlMaple::Expression can now build full-featured Perl AST from arbitrary
      Maple expressions. So you can manipulate Maple expressions via data
      structures directly, without the burden of parsing Maple code yourself!
    * PerlMaple::Expression provides several useful mehods, such as type, expr,
      and ops.
    * Added method to_ast to the PerlMaple class, which is construct a
      PerlMaple::Expression object from the given Maple expression.
    * Added ReturnAST attribute to the PerlMaple class (default off).
    * PerlMaple's AUTOLOADed methods (shortcuts for Maple functions) and the
      eval_cmd method will return a PerlMaple::Expression object automagically
      if you turn on the ReturnAST attribute.
    * Added many, many POD docs and many, many tests for the vast variety of
      new features.
    * Added code coverage testing results to POD docs. (Thanks to Devel::Cover.)

0.01  Tue Nov 15 22:26:13 2005
    * original version; created by h2xs 1.23 with options
        -A PerlMaple