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It's
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been
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a
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long
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year
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since
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the
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last
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release
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but
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the
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wait
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is
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finally
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over:
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Boo
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0.9.4
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is
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here
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!
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It's
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a
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release
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packed
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full
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of
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features,
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improvements
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and
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bug
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fixes:
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- ~
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- 4x
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- shorter
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- compilation
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- times
- support for partial interfaces (http://goo.gl/k5f16
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- )
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- and
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- enums
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- (
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- )
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- support
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- for
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- typed
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- collection
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- initializers
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- (
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- and
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- )
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- much
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- improved
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- Linq
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- extension
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- method
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- support
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- including
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- type
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- inference
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- for
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- closures
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- (
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- )
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- System.Core.dll
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- is
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- now
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- referenced
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- by
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- default,
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- import
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- System.Linq.Enumerable
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- and
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- Linq
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- away
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- 'new'
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- keyword
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- for
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- explicit
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- shadowing
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- of
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- inherited
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- members
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- (
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- )
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- initial
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- support
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- for
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- .Net
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- 4.0
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- loads
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- of
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- metaprogramming
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- improvements
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- macro
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- application
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- over
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- type
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- members
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- (
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- )
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- support
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- for
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- macros
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- yielding
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- partial
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- types
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- (
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- )
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- much
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- improved
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- Boo.Lang.PatternMatching
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- much
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- improved
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- quasiquotation
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- and
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- splicing
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- support
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- (
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- -
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- -
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- ...)
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- meta
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- methods
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- can
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- now
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- expand
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- to
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- code
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- containing
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- macros
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- (
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- )
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- better
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- support
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- for
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- block
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- quasiquotation
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- ("block:"
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- trick
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- no
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- longer
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- needed
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- when
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- quasiquoting
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- a
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- complex
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- sequence
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- of
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- statements)
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- (
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- )
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- type
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- inference
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- for
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- empty
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- arrays
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- will
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- take
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- their
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- usage
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- into
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- account
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- (
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- )
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- cast
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- function
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- has
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- been
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- deprecated
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- by
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- the
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- introduction
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- of
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- the
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- new
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- cast
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- operator
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- (e
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- cast
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- type)
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- ifdef
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- macro
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- for
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- conditional
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- compilation
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- (
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- )
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- simple
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- identifier
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- interpolation:
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- "Hello,
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- $name
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- !"
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- for
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- consistency
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- interpolation
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- now
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- uses
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- ()
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- instead
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- of
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- {}
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- for
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- complex
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- expressions
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- ("2+2:
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- $(2
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- +
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- 2)"
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- instead
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- of
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- "2+2:
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- ${2
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- +
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- 2}")
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- automatic
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- stubbing
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- of
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- inherited
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- abstract
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- generic
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- methods
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- (
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- )
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- proper
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- support
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- for
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- partial
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- classes
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- containing
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- nested
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- types
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- (
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- )
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- fixed
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- matrix
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- builtin
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- on
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- .net
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- (broken
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- by
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- a
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- System.Reflection.Emit
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- bug)
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- better
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- report
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- of
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- ambiguous
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- generic
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- type
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- reference
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- errors
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- fix
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- for
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- shortcircuited
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- expressions
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- involving
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- implicit
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- bool
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- conversion
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- operators
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- and
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- many
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- many
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- more...
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Kudos
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to
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all
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that
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contributed
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to
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this
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release
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throughout
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the
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year
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specially:
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Квасов
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Роман,
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Ryan
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Boggs,
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Dmitry
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Malyshev,
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Maksym
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Trushyn,
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Daniel
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Grunwald,
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Cedric
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Vivier,
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Spruce
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Weber,
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socrates877,
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rektide,
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George
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Dernovoy
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and
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Benjamin
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Reed.
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As
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usual
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the
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packages
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can
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be
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download
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from:
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http://dist.codehaus.org/boo/distributions/?C=M;O=D
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A
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new
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addin
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is
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also
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and
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can
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be
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installed
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from
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the
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Enjoy
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!