boa-dev/boa v0.4.0

0.4.0 (2019-09-25)

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v0.4.0 brings quite a big release. The biggest feature to land is the support of regular expressions.
Functions now have the arguments object supported and we have a debugging section in the docs.

Feature enhancements:

• FEATURE #6:
  Support for regex literals. (Big thanks @999eagle)
• FEATURE #13:
  toLowerCase, toUpperCase, substring, substr and valueOf implemented (thanks @arbroween)
• Support for arguments object within functions
• StringData instead of PrimitieData to match spec
• Native function signatures changed, operations added to match spec
• Primitives can now be boxed/unboxed when methods are ran on them
• Spelling edits (thanks @someguynamedmatt)
• Ability to set global values before interpreter starts (thanks @999eagle)
• Assign operators implemented (thanks @oll3)

Bug fixes:

• BUG #57:
  Fixed issue with stackoverflow by implementing early returns.
• Allow to re-assign value to an existing binding. (Thanks @oll3)