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Added a negative membership operator !in
Earlier, you could test membership with x in list, but in order to negate that expression you had to !(x in list) which is quite verbose.
We now added in #412 the !in operator to make things simpler: x !in list, it behaves just like python's not in.
Module cache
Every time you required a module, you'd always get a fresh instance of it, which would cause some funny behaviors:
$ require('@runtime').name = "xxx"
$ require('@runtime').name
abs
We now (#428) cache modules as soon as they are required, so the next time you require them you will receive the same instance you've required before:
$ require('@runtime').name = "xxx"
$ require('@runtime').name
xxx
This only applies to require and not source, as source is intended to be used in order to always evaluate a block of fresh code in the current environment.
Specify your own shell
In #429 we added the ability to execute commands with any shell, not just bash -c.
You can now specify a different shell to execute system commands with through ABS_COMMAND_EXECUTOR:
`echo \$0` # bash
env("ABS_COMMAND_EXECUTOR", "sh -c")
`echo \$0` # sh