A new minor release of ABS: always be shipping! 🚢
ABS 1.7.0 introduces some syntactical sugar as well as improvements to the REPL, so let's check these changes out!
Reverse search in the REPL
You can now use ctrl+r to look for previously ran commands in the REPL (#265), have a look at this video:
Number abbreviations
You can now abbreviate numbers through these letters (#269):
k(thousand)m(million)b(billion)t(trillion)
1m / 2k # 500The abbreviations are case-insensitive.
Output an exit message when terminating a script
You can now output a "goodbye" message when exiting a script (#266):
exit(1, "something nasty happened")Earlier you had to explicitly echo right before exiting:
echo("something nasty happened")
exit(1)This message argument to exit(...) is optional.
Improvements to str.replace(...)
We have made a couple of changes to improve the str.replace() function:
- you do not have to specify the number of replacements anymore, as the default value is "all replacements":
"abcabc".replace("a", "x") # "xbcxbc"(#268) - you can replace a list of characters now:
"121".replace(["1", "2"], "x") # "xxx"(#267)
The ABS playground
This is not really specific to this version, but we launched a playground for you to test ABS code directly on the website:
