v0.9.83

Fixes critical startup issue with 0.9.82

v0.9.82

Official Release

Release date: 09/02/2022

Change Log

Documentation

• Added numerous new Rosetta Code examples
• Minor fixes in existing examples and/or function signatures

Language

• Added new :rational type (along with all relevant operations)
• Added new :quantity type (measurements + unit support, along with all relevant operations)
• Added new :range types (with all relevant .. operations returning a new Range value)
• Added new :store type (persistent dictionary-like storage on disk)
• Added new :socket type
• Added scientific notation support for number literals
• Changed scoping rules (most blocks will now be completely scope-less, with the exception of iterators & functions)

Library

New

• Arithmetic: added new divmod method
• Collections: added new combine, decouple, one?, prepend, rotate & tally methods
• Comparison: added new between? & compare methods
• Converters: added new in & store methods
• Core: added new coalesce method
• Dates: added new sunday?, monday?, tuesday?, wednesday?, thursday?, friday? & saturday methods
• Files: added new hidden?, move & timestamp methods
• Iterators: added new arrange, chunk, cluster, collect, enumerate, gather, maximum & minimum methods
• Net: added new browse method
• Numbers: added new clamp, denominator, factorial, infinite?, lcm & numerator methods
• Paths: added new absolute? method
• Reflection: added new bytecode?, color?, complex?, object?, quantity?, rational?, range? & version? predicates
• Sets: added new disjoint? method
• Sockets: added accept, connect, listen, receive, send, send? & unplug methods
• Strings: added new alphabet, match? & translate methods
• System: added new superuser? predicate

Enhancements, Changes & Fixes

• Arithmetic\dec: added support for Complex numbers
• Arithmetic\inc: added support for Complex numbers
• Arithmetic\mod: added support for floating number modulo operations
• Arithmetic\pow: added support for Rational numbers
• Collections\chop: added .times: option & fixed to also work with empty blocks
• Collections\combine: renamed to couple
• Collections\contains?: added .at: option & :char support for string searches
• Collections\drop: fixed to also work with empty blocks
• Collections\first: fixed to also work with empty blocks
• Collections\flatten: added support for Literal values
• Collections\in?: added .at: option & :char support for string searches
• Collections\last: fixed to also work with empty blocks
• Collections\max: added .index option
• Collections\min: added .index option
• Collections\permutate: re-implemented and now works with a .by and .repeated option
• Collections\remove: fixed .once & added new .instance option
• Collections\reverse: added .exact option
• Collections\sample: fixed to also work with empty blocks
• Collections\sort: added .ascii option & fixed to also work with empty blocks
• Collections\take: fixed to also work with empty blocks
• Converters\to: added support for :complex to :block conversion
• Core\case: made function work with null sets (ø)
• Iterators: all iterator methods re-implemented and now work with a .with option and also with a null param block
• Iterators\filter: added .first and .last options
• Iterators\select: added .first, .last and .n options
• Numbers: made all trigonometric function work with :quantity values
• Numbers\e: renamed back to epsilon
• Numbers\infinity: renamed to infinite
• Numbers\negative?: added support for Floating, Complex & Rational values
• Numbers\positive?: added support for Floating, Complex & Rational values
• Numbers\product: added .cartesian option
• Numbers\range: make function work even with .step =< 0 + moved to Converters
• Reflection\info: show origin module for built-in functions/constants
• Strings\capitalize: added support for :char parameters
• Strings\match: better implementation with more options (once, capture, named, bounds, in, full)

Misc

• Fixed multi-line string handling in REPL
• Fixed thick-arrow-right (=>) syntac sugar handling in label + function assignments
• Fixed handling of arithmetic operations between :floating values and big :integer values
• Fixed handling of Unicode, locale-dependent sorting (including non-ASCII languages & sorting using digraphs/trigraphs, e.g. Hungarian)
• Functions in dictionaries are now directly callable (e.g. dict\f 10)
• Better support for Bytecode handling (+ built-in compression)
• Various performance-related enhancements (> ~500% performance boost)

v0.9.82-pre2

Official Release
refs/tags/v0.9.82-pre2

v0.9.80

Official Release
refs/tags/v0.9.80

v0.9.78

Official Release
refs/tags/v0.9.78

v0.9.77

Official Release
refs/tags/v0.9.77

v0.9.76

Official Release
refs/tags/v0.9.76

v0.9.75

Official Release
refs/tags/v0.9.75

v0.9.7.4

Official Release
refs/tags/v0.9.7.4

v0.9.7.2

Official release: v0.9.7.2

Changes

• Better handling of function arity and function calls
• Added non-string support for :dictionary keys
• Added support for custom user-defined types
• Added numerous Rosetta Code examples (and corresponding unit tests)
• Added support for doublecolon (::) symbols as block-generator syntactic sugar
• Vast improvement of error reporting, avoiding crashes and with much more helpful error messages
• Greatly enhanced REPL - with saveable/restorable history, tab-completions and as-you-type hints
• Updated workflows: added support for Windows & FreeBSD pre-built binaries in Releases & Nightly builds (mini versions)
• Fixed packager script
• Codebase cleanup
• Numerous minor fixes & additions

Library

• Collections: added squeeze
• Converters: added with
• Core: added unless, unless?
• Io: added cursor, goto, terminal
• Sets (new): intersect, union, difference, subset?, superset?
• System: added env
• Added .code option for as
• Added .muted option for inspect
• Added .import option for function
• Added unicode support for split
• Added string support for loop
• Numerous other additions