StringTemplate v4 beta released

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I haven't really done the documentation together yet, but you can start poking around at the main landing page.

CHANGES

4.0b4 – February 5, 2011

BIG THANKS to Udo Borkowski for his help debugging these betas and his
suggestions.

• added write to file methods

• had infinite loop for expr: "<t()$"

• the default file encoding is now UTF-8

• early eval <(x)> using new STWriter derived from type of current STWriter.
  e.g., AutoIndentWriter.

• didn't detect nonterminated comment. <!bad comment>

• added two literals "true" and "false" to the template argument syntax; e.g.,
  stat(name,x=true,y=false) ::= "..."

• it was treating "..." default arg as a template not string.

• throws STException now upon not finding group file or group dir instead
  of sending err to listener.

• default args couldn't have subtemplates
  t(x,y={<x:{s|<s>}>}) ::= "..."

• Added a new benchmark from Oliver Zeigermann. Discovered 60% of time is
  spent using reflection invoke() for properties.

4.0b3 – January 28, 2011

• exception in lexer blew out of parsing

• missing '}' in {...} caused infinite loop

• NPE in storeArgs if empty arg list

• removed debugging prints.

• x={<(...)>} default arg was hardcoded to <...> not $..$ or whatever.

• The grammar needed to match and ignore an optional INDENT before region @end

• when redefining a region (template) the newline before the >> was kept.

• WS not ignored in front of STRING token in expressions.

• closing STViz doesn't exit vm now.

• throws exception if registering renderer or model adaptor for primitive

4.0b2 – January 22, 2011

• Order of static init issue; an error mgr was null.

• Fixed some unit testing the Windows friendly

• Fix bug in triple if-elseif-elseif-elseif; added unit tests

• bug where I did not say current_ip when calling exec() from writeObject

• Updated README to include install information

4.0b1 – January 14, 2011