HaxeFoundation/haxe 4.1.0

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2020-05-13: 4.1.0

New features:

• all : added tail recursion elimination (#8908)
• all : added unified exception handling (#9124)
• all : allow try {} catch(e) {} as a shortcut for try {} catch(e:haxe.Exception) {} (#9269)
• eval : added SSL support (#9009)
• jvm : the JVM target is no longer considered experimental

General improvements:

• all : implemented different display support approach (#8962)
• all : improved display services related to reference finding
• all : added go-to-implementation support (#9043)
• all : made various improvements to diagnostics
• all : support completion for map keys (#9133)
• all : improved parser robustness for incomplete syntax (#9148)
• all : disallowed the combination of @:overload and inline (#3846)
• all : improved renaming of local variables (#9304)
• all : better inlining of for-loops with anonymous iterators (#8848)
• all : remove redundant final return in Void functions (#6420)
• all : remove redundant continue in loops (#8952)
• all : improved various compilation errors reporting
• all : allowed (get,default) property access combination (#6195, #8825)
• all : allowed ++ and -- on member properties of abstracts (#8930)
• js : use abstract type name for generating its implementation class (#9006)
• js : improve haxe.ds.StringMap implementation (#8909)
• js : improve interface checking and make it more minifier-friendly (#9178)
• js : generate let instead of var when compiler with -D js-es=6 (#9280)
• js : optimize .bind on constructors (#9227)
• jvm : rewrote function handling to me much faster and more portable (#9208)
• jvm : generate interfaces for typedefs for improved performance (#9195)
• jvm : added support for haxe.MainLoop
• jvm : support @:jvm.synthetic and use it to hide some generated fields (#9213)
• jvm : respect @:private and @:protected
• lua : improve error handling behavior when throwing objects/instances
• lua : optimize haxe.iterators.StringIterator
• php : optimize Std.isOfType for String, Bool and Float
• php : make Haxe Array implement native interfaces Iterator, IteratorAggregate, Countable (#8821, 9377)
• cs : support @:assemblyMeta and @:assemblyStrict (#8347)
• python : added __contains__ and __getitem__ implementations to generated python code for _hx_AnonObject, so it is subscribable and behaves like a python dict (#9109)

Standard Library:

• all : negative startIndex argument of String.indexOf and String.lastIndexOf is unspecified (#8365)
• all : changed Array.iterator() to return instances of haxe.iterators.ArrayIterator (#8987)
• all : added Array.contains (#9179)
• all : added Array.keyValueIterator (#7422)
• all : added haxe.Constraints.NotVoid (#8357)
• all : added Lambda.findIndex() (#9071)
• all : added Lambda.foldi() (#9054)
• all : added array access and key-value iteration support to haxe.ds.HashMap (#9056)
• jvm : added JVM-specific versions of sys.thread.Lock and sys.thread.Thread
• jvm : added JVM-specific version of haxe.ds.StringMap
• java/jvm : use native versions of MD-5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 for haxe.crypto modules (#9298)
• macro : added haxe.macro.Context.containsDisplayPosition(pos) (#9077)
• nullsafety : treat Strict as a single-threaded mode; added StrictThreaded (#8895)

Deprecations:

• all : deprecated Std.is; use Std.isOfType instead (#2976)
• all : added a warning for an uninitialized variable usage captured in a closure (#7447)
• js : deprecated untyped __js__(code, args); use js.Syntax.code(code, args) instead
• php/neko : deprecated neko.Web and php.Web; will be moved to hx4compat library later (#9153)

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed display support for static imports (#9012)
• all : fixed completion in macro mode picking up the wrong type (#7703)
• all : fixed wonky analyzer transformation related to locals captured in closures (#9305)
• all : allow return; in abstract constructors (#7809)
• all : fixed static @:op([]) functions (#9347)
• all : fixed @:optional handling in the inheritance of @:structInit classes (#7559)
• all : support negative numbers as constant type parameters for @:generic types (#9149)
• all : fixed false positive compilation server error with empty methods in inheritance (#9029)
• all : fixed default values for manually defined @:structInit constructors (#9177, #9258)
• all : fixed inference of Void return type for arrow functions (#9181)
• all : fixed inconsistencies in wildcard imports resolution (#9189, #9190)
• all : fix array comprehension for a chain of if..else if without final else (#9040)
• all : prohibit @:structInit on interfaces (#9017)
• macro : fixed handling TAnonymous in haxe.macro.TypeTools.map (#9147)
• eval : fixed EReg.matchSub handling with negative length (#9333)
• eval : fixed extern classes being generated and causing errors in some cases (#9366)
• eval : fixed StringBuf.addSub unicode handling (#9382)
• jvm : fixed Void being generated with the wrong casing (#8717)
• jvm : fixed debugging-related data being generated in the wrong place
• jvm : fixed switches on string values being too optimistic
• jvm : fixed problems with Std.parseInt and Std.parseFloat
• jvm : made sure type parameter types are boxed
• jvm : fixed dynamic access on null yielding null (#8452)
• cpp : fixed native compilation if there is a hx package in a project (#8543)
• cs : fixed null to 0 conversion in parametrized functions for Null<Int> params (#7428)
• cs : fixed integer division handling (#9232)
• php : fixed closure creation out of fields with null value (#9316)
• js : fixed interface generation for minification with Google Closure Compiler in advanced mode (#9172)
• js : fixed a crash at startup in IE8 (#9062)
• hl : fixed BLOB handling in SQLite (#9048)