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•	Dynamic function calls (DYNFUNC); 1645

Ø	Added support for array/collection params; 1690

Ø	Added named param support and call as procedure; 1720

•	Dynamic structures (DYNSTRUCT); 1645

Ø	Support DEFTYPE aliases; 1660

Ø	.ISDEF ,.DYNOFFSET, .DYNOFFSIZ$; 1711

Ø	.BINDSTRUCT; 1711

Ø	Structure Definition Embedding; 1711

Ø	Auto init / bind on param passing; 1711

Ø	Auto init / bind on assignment; 1733

•	GRIDMAP collection type; 1728

Ø	.MINROW($grid()), .MAXROW($grid()), .KEY($$i,1), .KEY($$i,2); 1728

Ø	INPUT CSV $grid(); 1728

Ø	SQL fetch into gridmap; 1730

Ø	.MINCOL(), .MAXCOL(), .COLNUM(); 1736

Ø	XTREE support; 1742

Ø	WRITECD $grid(); 1742

•	Other Collections Improvements

Ø	Support passing collections by reference; 1623

Ø	SQL fetch row into ordmap; 1630

Ø	Assignment/addition/subtraction of entire collections; 1650

Ø	Compiler enforcement of collection parameter passing compatibility; 1731

Ø	FOREACH & FOREACH'REVERSE starting key support; 1739

•	CSV Improvements

Ø	INPUT CSV into array; 1629, 1697

Ø	INPUT CSV auto-detect pipe delimiter; 1671

Ø	WRITECD ary(); 1697

Ø	INPUT CSV $grid(); 1728

Ø	Array = <CSV formatted string>; 1739

Ø	WRITECD $grid(); 1742

Ø	CSV2XL.SBX; see Subroutines

•	RANDOM / ISAM File I/O enhancements

Ø	XOPEN for ISAMA; 1683

Ø	XOPEN support for open modes via FDVF_xxx flags; 1684

Ø	XUNLOKR #ch, recno; 1669

Ø	.RECSIZ(ch); 1685

Ø	.FSTAT(ch); 1683

Ø	.RECNO(ch); 1683

•	SBX / Function related enhancements

Ø	XPUTARG @argname, .ARGTYP(@argname), .ARGSIZ(@argname)

Ø	Ellipsis in function parameter list definition; 1647

Ø	DIMX arrays of type S, B and I may now be passed by reference to functions; 1740

Ø	Implicit capture of function return value; 1695

•	New dot variables

Ø	.MILLITIME, .MICROTIME; 1687

Ø	.MMDDYY, .DDMMYY, .CCYYMMDD; 1687

Ø	.SBXNAME, .SBXVERSION; 1685

•	New functions

Ø	.VALX(expr); 1702

Ø	IFE(), IFE$(); 1657

Ø	NUMEXPR(expr), STREXPR$(expr) casting functions; 1752

Ø	TRIM/TRIM$ strips leading and trailing blanks; 1713

Ø	LSTRIP/LSTRIP$ strips leading blanks; 1712

Ø	DATN double arctangent trigonometric function; 1725

•	New shortcut operators

Ø	Unambiguous shortcut operators; 1686

Ø	A \|= B, A &= B

•	VAR = *LABEL, CALL @VAR; 1725

•	PRIVATE variable blocks in main modulE; 1641

•	Expanded xxxxx.PRINT tracing syntax and capabilities; 1639

•	Combined MAP1 / DEFSTRUCT; 1603

•	Enhanced assignment logic for substrings of dynamic variables; 1637

•	Auto-mapped loop counters and local-to-loop variableS; 1704