bakpakin/Fennel 0.2.0

Fennel 0.2.0 / 2019-01-17

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The second minor release introduces backtick, making macro authoring
much more streamlined. Macros may now be defined in the same file, and
pattern matching is added.

• Prevent creation of bindings that collide with special forms and macros
• Make parens around steps optional in arrow macros for single-arg calls
• Allow macros to be defined inline with macros
• Add --add-package-path and --add-fennel-path to launcher script
• Add -?> and -?>> macros
• Add support for quoting with backtick and unquoting with @ (later changed to ,)
• Support key/value tables when destructuring
• Add match macro for pattern matching
• Add optional GNU readline support for repl
• Fix a bug where runtime errors were not reported by launcher correctly
• Allow repl to recover gracefully from parse errors