inkle/ink 0.7.3

Version 0.7.3

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A solid batches of fixes and improvements.

• Far more robust detection of naming collisions between various symbol types. You might notice some new errors in your ink that weren't being detected before!
• Much improved behaviour for default choices (* ->), and disallowed usage of -> outside of this.
• More divert types supported on choices, so you can do for example * out of the tunnel we go! ->->.
• The divert taken after a tunnel return can now take parameters, useful for this pattern ->-> where_next(-> egypt).
• The &&/and and ||/or operators on lists now check whether they contain anything, then do a logical and/or on the results. Previously and used to do the union operation on lists (e.g. cloak and dagger). Instead, you need to do cloak + dagger.
• Fix for using x++ and x += y within functions, and general increased compiler robustness for them.
• EXTERNALs can now be defined anywhere. Previously there were errors with using them below knots.
• New READ_COUNT() internal function that can be used on variable divert targets, which wasn't possible before.
• Can now store a variable divert target that points to a knot that takes parameters, and therefore get the READ_COUNT / TURNS_SINCE of it. Warning, there's no checking for the number of parameters that a parameterised knot takes when calling it from a variable divert target. If you get it wrong, weird stuff will happen!
• Ability to query the current stack depth from runtime state (if you use source rather than the DLL, since it's currently internal), useful for debugging tunnels.