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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 - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/822
• Add as keyword: import "..." for Name as OtherName - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/775
• Add Support positive sign in scientific notation - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/706
• Add Fiber.try(value) to complement Fiber.call(value) - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/835
• Allow . to be on a different line (for fluent/builder APIs) - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/commit/4c496c56a6bc51c5922a5ed19b6e0ec9b1b00de6
• Allow newlines in empty parameter lists - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/925
• Add raw strings using triple quotes """ - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/commit/981ea4adf1f9631dca386675f87cf88a76cc79ce
• Add \e escape character for strings - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/963
• Add Attributes to classes and methods - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/962

Modules

• Random: Random.sample optimizations - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/716
• List:
• Add list.sort() and list.sort {|a, b| ... } (quicksort) - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/802
• Add list.swap(index0, index1) for swapping elements within a list - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/commit/38f50fe091159ff8b114b9cbd0054456f7ed5366
• Add list.indexOf(value) for finding values in a list - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/commit/62009870a8031acf231e5fb5eba13e4f6d334a07
• Add list.remove(value), removing by value not index - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/commit/ecce1f6be9fb2a177e1c61577d5f1fd16e36cc80
• Num:
• Add Num.tau - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/commit/89c5e224809effae59dfe3cb0e2425b23d1722f1
• Add Num.nan, Num.infinity - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/781
• Add Num.minSafeInteger and Num.maxSafeInteger - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/874
• Add min(other), max(other), clamp(min, max) - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/commit/8361217369825cd3ce730586d43f3994733b997e
• Add cbrt for cube root - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/905
• Add exp, log2 - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/commit/433fbc40195ddf1c837c1c56e14e15e5633e1bb3

Fixes

• Fix stack corruption related to Fn calls - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/807
• Fix a byte offset bug in CODE_IMPORT_VARIABLE - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/commit/28ad8aa9e07f9622de3483cf67ae688a51c1cbdb
• Fix some stack corruptions related to multiple wrenInterpret calls - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/730
• Fixed crash when GC collects module during import 2ce421ea
• Fix Bool, Num and Null allowing subclassing, which is invalid - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/831
• Fix config reallocateFn being required, it can now be left out as intended - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/commit/33ab8be7e3a32182e1397e403d6ee8a5e8b342c8
• Fix returns in a constructor returning null, and disallow returning a value - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/845

API

• BREAKING: Add userData to wrenReallocateFn - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/788
• BREAKING: Add WrenLoadModuleResult which has a onComplete callback, allowing freeing module strings - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/778
• Add wrenGetVersionNumber for external access via the API - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/958
• Add WREN_API prefix for correct dll exports for some compilers - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/commit/a501fba4bbc9b3cda3574b230b5b1e8f9d4aeadd
• Add wrenHasVariable and wrenHasModule queries, for use with wrenGetVariable - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/commit/182ca90b8c9e14a88837699f1fa95f61d19b0f0a
• Add wrenSetListElement to complement wrenGetListElement, and allow negative index for both - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/commit/97ebcc72c36f8ea81ed8bbfac8e165f7ef74495f
• Add Map functions to API - https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/pull/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