Plenty of new features in this new release of ABS!
We wanted to deliver a few more things with 1.1.0 (such as parallel commands) but considering we already have a whole bunch of new features lined up we decided to release now rather than waiting for a couple additional features that might take a few more weeks. As a result of this, we created the 1.2.x milestone and moved all pending issues there.
Let's go through the most notable changes in this release!
New features
- added a
sleep(ms)function which halts the scripts for a duration, specified in milliseconds (#158) in, the membership test operator, now supports searching keys in hashes (#154)in, the membership test operator, now supports searching for a substring in a string (#148)~, the similarity operator, now supports numbers: a number is similar to another one if their integer representation is the same (1.23 ~ 1 # true) (#140)- you can now loop through hashes uses
for k, v in hash { ... }(#139) - destructuring now supports hashes:
some, key = {"some": 1, key: 1}(#151) - you can now trigger system commands both with
$(command)and`command`. This allows less verbose code such as`ls -la`.okwhich is not possible with$(ls -la)as the command needs to be on its own line (#41) - added a few builtin functions on hashes:
keys(),values(),items()andpop(key)(#147)
Bugfixes
null == null # false(#152)- assignments to array / hash indexes (
x[0] = 1andx.key = 1) are now supported (#141)