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0.3.2

22 Jan 05:55
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  • Better error messages
  • Concurrency library
  • Multi-line text literals
  • Redefined tuples and variants as products and sums (both at the type-level and the data-structure-level)
  • Finished support for generics
  • Added the ability to add arbitrary meta-data to global definitions
  • Now appending a hash of the name of the definition to the generated classes to avoid collisions in case-insensitive file-systems
  • Syntax parsers now use Either instead of Maybe, to allow for useful error reporting in case a parser fails
  • The $ macro was modified to do right-association rather than left-association
  • Minor aesthetic changes to the standard library

0.3.1

25 Dec 05:52
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  • \open pattern-matching macro
  • jvm-import macro for easily working with classes/interfaces
  • Simplifed array operations
  • Bugfix: Array operations don't infer array type
  • do-to macro for working with objects
  • Removed the $ suffix from AST functions
  • Made the . (composition) function belong to lux, rather than lux/codata/function
  • Renamed Error/Functor & Error/Monad to Either/Functor & Either/Monad
  • Unified data/number/int & data/number/real as data/number
  • Allow multiple prefixes for open
  • Added % binding in "do" and "be" macros
  • Optimization: Local var aliasing
  • Optimization: Compile "unit" as the null pointer

0.3.0

01 Oct 17:02
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  • Several bug fixes.
  • New Leiningen plugin for Lux.
  • Support for Java generics.
  • Can now use both Java libraries & Lux libraries in .jar format.
  • Much better interop with the JVM.
  • Expanded standard library (see https://github.com/LuxLang/stdlib)
  • File & line information added to generated .class files for easier debugging.
  • Text interpolation: e.g. (println (<> "Hello, #{name}#!"))
  • Improved syntax for working with data-types.

v0.2.0

30 Jul 00:45
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Fixed a bunch of bugs.
Implemented a few missing features.
Added the (much needed) cache.
Started the standard library.

0.1.0

05 May 14:44
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0.1.0 Pre-release
Pre-release

An alpha version of the language meant to let people get a taste for it and see what it's all about.