wren-lang/wren 0.4.0

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0.4.0 contains 145 commits from 28 contributors!

About Wren

Release blog post (highlights only).

Documentation

This release includes many documentation revisions, fixes, additions and gaps closed!

Language

• Add continue keyword for loops - #822
• Add as keyword: import "..." for Name as OtherName - #775
• Add Support positive sign in scientific notation - #706
• Add Fiber.try(value) to complement Fiber.call(value) - #835
• Allow . to be on a different line (for fluent/builder APIs) - 4c496c5
• Allow newlines in empty parameter lists - #925
• Add raw strings using triple quotes """ - 981ea4a
• Add \e escape character for strings - #963
• Add Attributes to classes and methods - #962

Modules

• Random: Random.sample optimizations - #716
• List:
  • Add list.sort() and list.sort {|a, b| ... } (quicksort) - #802
  • Add list.swap(index0, index1) for swapping elements within a list - 38f50fe
  • Add list.indexOf(value) for finding values in a list - 6200987
  • Add list.remove(value), removing by value not index - ecce1f6
• Num:
  • Add Num.tau - 89c5e22
  • Add Num.nan, Num.infinity - #781
  • Add Num.minSafeInteger and Num.maxSafeInteger - #874
  • Add min(other), max(other), clamp(min, max) - 8361217
  • Add cbrt for cube root - #905
  • Add exp, log2 - 433fbc4

Fixes

• Fix stack corruption related to Fn calls - #807
• Fix a byte offset bug in CODE_IMPORT_VARIABLE - 28ad8aa
• Fix some stack corruptions related to multiple wrenInterpret calls - #730
• Fixed crash when GC collects module during import 2ce421e
• Fix Bool, Num and Null allowing subclassing, which is invalid - #831
• Fix config reallocateFn being required, it can now be left out as intended - 33ab8be
• Fix returns in a constructor returning null, and disallow returning a value - #845

API

• BREAKING: Add userData to wrenReallocateFn - #788
• BREAKING: Add WrenLoadModuleResult which has a onComplete callback, allowing freeing module strings - #778
• Add wrenGetVersionNumber for external access via the API - #958
• Add WREN_API prefix for correct dll exports for some compilers - a501fba
• Add wrenHasVariable and wrenHasModule queries, for use with wrenGetVariable - 182ca90
• Add wrenSetListElement to complement wrenGetListElement, and allow negative index for both - 97ebcc7
• Add Map functions to API - #725
  • wrenSetSlotNewMap
  • wrenGetMapCount
  • wrenGetMapContainsKey
  • wrenGetMapValue
  • wrenSetMapValue
  • wrenRemoveMapValue

Other

• build; add util/generate_projects.py for regenerating project files
• vm; Allow computed goto when using clang on Windows
• vm; WREN_MAX_TEMP_ROOTS default is 8 (instead of 5)
• vm; GC debug times are printed in milliseconds, not seconds

Commits since 0.3.0