HaxeFoundation/haxe 4.0.0-preview.3

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2018-02-23: 4.0.0-preview.3

See full commit history at 4.0.0-preview.2...4.0.0-preview.3, notable changes below:

New features:

• all : added new function type syntax ((a:Int, b:String)->Void) (#6645)
• all : added column to StackItem.FilePos (#6665)
• all : added -D warn-var-shadowing
• all : added haxe.Log.formatOutput (#6738)
• js : added js.Syntax class for generating unsupported JavaScript syntax in a type-safe analyzer-friendly way
• js : added js.Map and js.Set and js.JsIterator extern definitions (ES6)
• hl : added hl.Format.digest, use it for native Sha1/Md5

General improvements and optimizations:

• all : made all non-warning/non-error compiler messages output to stdout (#4480)
• all : make DCE keep constructor if any instance field is kept (#6690)
• all : make final in structures use class notation
• display : added this and super to toplevel completion (#6051)
• php : implemented direct method comparison. No need to use Reflect.compareMethods()
• php : added php.Syntax.code() instead of deprecated untyped __php__() (#6708)
• php : added methods to php.Syntax for each php operator: ??, ?:, ** etc. (#6708)
• python : add ssl support for http requests
• python : improve Sys.print(ln) code generation (#6184)
• js : generate faster code for x.iterator() calls (#6669)
• js : rework exception handling, added js.Lib.getOriginalException (#6713)
• js : generate value instanceof MyClass instead of Std.is(value, MyClass) (#6687)
• js : use lazy getter for HaxeError.message instead of calling String(val) in the ctor (#6754)

Removals:

• php : removed php.Syntax.binop() (#6708)

Deprecations:

• php : deprecated support for untyped __php__, untyped __call__ etc. Use php.Syntax instead.

Bugfixes:

• all : delay interface accessor generation properly (#6225, #6672)
• all : fixed unbound variable error in anonymous functions (#6674)
• all : fixed abstract @:to used when from is available in a specific case (#6751)
• all : sys.Http: fix chunked encoding handling (#6763)
• all : fix some invalid Json being accepted by haxe.format.JsonParser (#6734)
• all : fixed haxe.format.JsonPrinter for instances of classes to make it produce consistent result across targets (#6801)
• all : fixed autogenerated constructor for extending @:structInit classes (#6822, #6078)
• js : fixed saving setter to tmp var before invocation (#6672)
• lua : fix toString behavior in the case of -0 (#6652)
• lua : properly bind field functions when passed as arguments (#6722)
• php : don't fail on generating import aliases for classes with the similar names (#6680)
• php : fixed Sys.environment() to also return variables set by Sys.putEnv()
• php : fixed sys.net.Socket.bind() (#6693)
• php : fixed appending "sqlite:" prefix to the names of files created by sys.db.Sqlite.open() (#6692)
• php : made php.Lib.objectOfAssociativeArray() recursive (#6698)
• php : fixed php error on parsing expressions like a == b == c (#6720)
• php : fixed multiple file uploads in php.Web.parseMultiPart() (#4173)
• php : fixed an issue with "Object" used as a class name for PHP 7.2 (it's a new keyword in php) (#6838)
• eval : don't lose dynamic function inits from parent classes (#6660)
• cs : fix order-dependent enum type parameter issue (#6016)