The Standard Modules for Oz 2 have been carefully redesigned to have a simpler structure and to deliver more performance while at least retaining the functionality present in Oz 1.
Besides of the changes outlined on this page, several small changes have been made. See here for more information.
The boolean test procedures (e.g., IsIntB) have been
renamed to variable names without the suffix B (e.g.,
IsInt). The non-boolean versions have disappeared.
Similarly, procedures that expected boolean procedures as arguments
in Oz 1 (e.g., FilterB) have been renamed analogously (e.g.,
Filter).
We have written two small shell scripts that might be of some use for adopting your programs to these changes. These are:
You can download these scripts as tar-file here.
Arrays and Dictionaries are now modelled as chunks,
efficient operations
on them are provided by the modules Array and
Dictionary.
The module DataStructure has become obsolete.
Records are allowed to have both literal and integer features in Oz 2.0. A tuple is just a special case of record where the features ranging from 1 to the record's width.
The module Tuple thus became very small, all procedures
for records (e.g., Record.map) can be used for tuples as
well.
The module Search has been completely reorganized. It now
features search engines that support recomputation. Recomputation
trades space for time if a problem would take too much memory without
recomputation.
An interactive and graphical tool that allows to explore the search tree of a given problem is the Oz Explorer.
The module FD has been reorganized. It features a much
richer set of propagators and distribution strategies. More
information can be found here.
For more information see here.