Conformance Clause

Conformance Policy

FreeM attempts to comply with ANSI X11.1-1995 and the unpublished Millennium Draft Standard (MDS) from the MUMPS Development Committee.

This article attempts to track missing and/or nonstandard features in the current main branch of FreeM. It is a work-in-progress.

MERGE

• MERGE should be implemented as M[ERGE] postcond SP L mergeargument, but is currently implemented as M[ERGE] postcond SP mergeargument

KVALUE/KSUBSCRIPTS

• Only the inclusive forms of these commands are currently implemented

Transaction Processing

• Restartable transactions are not complete

Event Processing

• ETRIGGER is not yet implemented
• Of the event classes defined in the MDS, only the INTERRUPT evclass is implemented
• The TRIGGER 'evclass' is nonstandard
• The ^$EVENT SSVN is incomplete
• Environment-wide events defined in ^$SYSTEM are nonstandard

Routines

• Dotted routine names are nonstandard

Miscellaneous Language Features

• ASSERT is nonstandard
• WITH and USING are nonstandard
• CONST is nonstandard
• MAP is nonstandard