Changes

Version 8.1

• [x64] Fix x64 backend with signed division
• [x64] Add .note.GNU-stack section needed by latest GNU ld
• Improve error reporting
• Function can no longer include global definitions
• The frontend can be reused independently for a scripting language

Version 8.0

• Handle static references (ref [T] id)
• Make function signature optional in references
• Remove default values
• Remove multiline strings
• Remove ++ and --
• Remove 'static', use shorter keywords (func, attr, def)
• Remove conditional 'then' operator
• Remove instance constants
• Remove 'begin' blocks
• Replace 'stype' and 'struct' by 'class'
• Multiple cases no longer need parenthesis
• Function can include global definitions (classes, functions, ...)

Version 7.0

• String literals can be multiline
• Accept '_' in integer literals
• Remove symbols
• Rename 'continue' to 'pass'
• Rename 'namespace' to 'module'
• Rename 'T.super' to 'T.Super'
• Rename 'T.cell' to 'T.Cell'
• Rename 'repeat' to 'loop'
• Replace 'T.size' with sizeof(T) (because of new enums)
• Multiple cases must use parenthesis
• Function can no longer include global definitions (structs, functions, ...)
• Defer accepts a block as well as a single statement
• Use 'static' instead of .static, .meta, .instance directives
• Add implicit context (.id)

Version 6.0

• Use '.' syntax
• Remove T.nil
• Remove 'enum' (use 'stype' only)
• +=, ... are strictly equivalent to assign + operation
• T [n] is now a pointer
• ^ is an alias for 'continue'
• Add extern variables

Version 5.0

• Default parameters
• Add namespaces and generic namespaces
• Replace 'cond' with 'if'
• Replace [n]T by T[n]
• Replace *[]T by T[]
• Replace *T by Pointer(T)
• Replace {...} by [...] for initializers
• Return type no longer infered
• Add 'Self' automatic alias
• Add 'enum': like stype, but with a check on switch statements
• Allow end-of-lines before ']' and ')'
• Change syntax of variadics: the parameter is named
• T! instead of 'T target'
• 'T cell' instead of 'T cellType'
• Parameters of imported functions can have a default value
• Replace T@id and e@id by 'ref (T) id' and 'ref (e) id'
• No more @(e)
• The main function is automatically exported with a C naming convention
• Implicit conversion between integers
• Implicit conversion between integers and Size
• Pointers are implicit on structures and arrays (by default everything is a reference).
• Genericity: '*' as parameter type
• Genericity: alias the real type with '* as id'
• Genericity: types and namespaces can have variadics
• Genericity: the variadic parameter can have a type
• Genericity: 'function +' become 'function *'
• Directives .instance .meta .static replace the 'meta' and 'static' keywords
• Directives .when[expr]
• Include a frontend for all backends
• Include the standard library

Version 4.6

• Allow struct, stype, function and const in a function or a macro
• Add namespace
• vtable accepts generics
• private for contextual definitions means only accessible from same module
• Bug fix: distance of pointer did not accept *[n]T ~ *[]T

Version 4.5

• Initialize / release in local declarations
• Get rid of typestream
• Add continue
• Bug fix: generic class structures not considered as structures

Version 4.4

• Add private context definitions
• Restrict trailing conditionals to return and break

Version 4.3

• Removed namespace (136 loc)
• Added 'meta const'
• Added 'meta struct'
• Added 'meta stype'
• Added 'meta var'
• Added 'instance const'
• Added 'instance struct'
• Added 'instance stype'
• Replaced 'static' by 'meta function'
• Replaced 'attr' by 'var'
• Static definitions are now prefixed with 'static'
• Removed 'method'
• Removed 'enum'
• Enumeration can be defined in any integer sub-type
• Replaced cast operator ':' by cast, upcast and downcast
• Renamed UnsignedXX to UintXX
• Extends and imports can be done inside types
• Return type declaration can use parameters
• Added vtable

Version 4.0

• defer
• begin
• Trailing conditionals (removed in 3.1)
• const in methods

Version 3.0

• Import of methods
• Genericity on self argument of method (method + name)
• No more {...}, Added var x : T
• eachextra, extrasize => vargseach, vargssize
• End everywhere
• Syntax of structures and array literals: { }
• Type-of syntax: @T
• Distinction between methods and functions calls
• Lookup algorithm (typespace)
• Functions, const, struct, enum and stypes can be nested
• Changed priorities of & | and ^ operators
• Trailing conditionals

Version 2.0

• No more 'static'
• Added 'Char32' type
• No more private definition in structures
• Enumeration are opaques (no match with integers, impossible to pass an enum value with wrong type)
• Returned type of recursive function is not inferred anymore, it must be explicitely declared
• Sub-types
• Faster compilation
• .ifdef, .ifndef, .ifeq, .ifne directives for conditional compilation
• 'Size' opaque type

Version 1.6

• \" ignored in strings

Version 1.5

• Inlining of functions

Version 1.3

• The public name of function is always generated. Backend always use it as base name