HaxeFoundation/haxe 4.0.0-rc.3

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2019-06-13: 4.0.0-rc.3

New features:

• all : added JVM target

General improvements and optimizations:

• all : create temp vars in pattern matcher to avoid duplicate access (#8064)
• all : support parsing dots in conditional compilation, e.g. #if target.sys
• all : added @:bypassAccessor
• all : improved various aspects of the display API
• all : properly error on @:op(a = b) (#6903)
• all : made @:using actually work
• all : properly disallowed some modifier combinations related to final (#8335)
• all : support @:pure(false) on variable fields (#8338)
• flash : updated Flash externs to version 32.0 (now using final, enum abstract and haxe.extern.Rest)
• flash : rework support for native Flash properties (#8241)
• php : improved performance of various parser implementations (#8083)
• cs : support .NET core target (#8391)
• cs : generate native type parameter constraints (#8311, #7863)

Standard Library:

• all : added StringTools.contains (#7608)
• all : turned sys.thread.Thread into abstracts (#8130)
• all : introduced Std.downcast as replacement for Std.instance (#8301)
• all : introduced UnicodeString, deprecated haxe.Utf8 (#8298)
• java : added java.NativeString (#8163)
• cs : added sys.thread implementations (#8166)
• js : moved various classes to js.lib (#7390)
• Bugfixes
• all : fixed issue with @:generic type parameters not being bound to Dynamic (#8102)
• all : fixed various issues related to @:structInit
• all : fixed top-down inference on abstract setters (#7674)
• all : fixed DCE issue related to closures (#8200)
• all : fixed and restricted various Unicode-related issues in String literals
• all : fixed various priority issues regarding loops and iterators
• all : fixed cast handling in try-catch expressions (#8257)
• all : fixed inline new handling (#8240)
• all : fixed pattern matcher issue with wildcards in or-patterns (#8296)
• all : fixed @:allow(package) allowing too much (#8306)
• all : fixed various issues with startIndex handling on String.indexOf and String.lastIndexOf
• all : fixed infinite recursion related to printing of objects with circular references (#8113)
• sys : fixed various Unicode issues (#8135)
• macro : fixed Array.pop handling (#8075)
• macro : fixed assertion failure when throwing exception (#8039)
• macro : fixed various uncatchable exceptions being thrown
• php : error on case-insensitive name clashes (#8219)
• lua : fixed issue where Process output occasionally is missing some data
• hl : fixed various String Unicode issues
• java : fixed null exception in CallStack.exceptionStack (#8322)
• js : fixed code generation issue related to negative abstract values (#8318)
• flash : fix various issues, including native protected handling and method overloading

Removals:

• all : remove support for @:fakeEnum enums
• all : disallowed \x with values > 0x7F (#8141)
• all : consistently disallowed metadata in lambda function arguments (#7800)
• all : removed --gen-hx-classes (#8237)