ArkScript v4.8.0

[SuperFola]

Added

• sha256 sums of release artefacts in the releases
• the debugger now display the instruction and page pointers in the traces
• checking that we can properly create error messages when code is run from a string
• add support for raw strings: r"string...", backslashes do not have to be escaped in them
  • quotes (") can be used in raw strings, but they have to be escaped: r"hello\"world\" will produce hello"world"
• stdlib:
  • new draft module re, using google/re2 as the regex engine
• cli:
  • new flag --stats when compiling code, outputting a JSON of compilation stats

Changed

• @ can be used with dictionaries: (@ dict key) will behave the same as (dict:get dict key)
• @= can be used with dictionaries: (@= dict key new_value) will behave the same as (dict:add dict key new_value)
• ArkScript's formatter always returns exit code 0 when in dry run
• upgrade docker images to alpine 3.24 (from 3.23)
• stdlib:
  • math:countDigits can work with any base, higher or equal to 2

Removed

• removed std.Range which had been deprecated in 4.6.0

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This discussion was created from the release ArkScript v4.8.0.