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Changelog

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  • v0.6.6:
    • Improved and revised list and dict syntax
      • , is now some kind of operator, denoting a list
    • Implementation and use of Keyword<P>
    • Empty and Void clarification
    • Improved logging and debug
    • Compiler internals
      • New Scope struct
      • More refactoring on ImlValue
  • v0.6.5: Implementation of generic parselets
    • Syntax changes
    • Handle parselet instances
    • Handle generic values in intermediate structures
    • System-defined parselets in prelude
      • Repeat<P, min: 1, max: void>
        • Implement Pos<P>, Opt<P>, Kle<P>
        • Compile P+ into Pos<P>, P? into Opt<P>, P* into Kle<P>
      • List<P, Sep: (',' _), empty: true>
      • Peek<P>, replaced peek P by Peek<P>
      • Not<P>, replaced not P by Not<P>
      • Expect<P> msg=void, replaced expect P by Expect<P>
  • v0.6.4:
    • Main parselet operates on multiple inputs (Readers) now
    • Restructuring parts of VM, Runtime renamed into Thread
    • Several test cases restructured
    • Bugfix for str_get_item
    • Ord on Value and RefValue, builtin list_sort()
    • Implementing str_split(s, sep=void, n=void)
    • Fix begin and end feature of parselets (#109)
  • v0.6.3: Test release by mistake, see #106 for details.
  • v0.6.2:
    • Internal revision and clarification on compiler's intermediate structures ImlOp, ImlValue and ImlProgram (part of #105)
  • v0.6.1:
    • Comparison chains within expressions (#103)
    • Iterators and for...in-syntax (#101)
    • Chars<...> in addition to Char<...> syntax

v0.6

Released on Jan 13, 2023

  • General
    • Use of num-parse for Int and internal string-to-int conversion ("parseInt()"-like behavior) (#65)
    • Updated clap command-line parser to v3 (#61)
    • Improving internal testcase function and moving all prior #[test]-functions into separate Tokay testcases (#86)
  • Syntax
    • Operator // for integer division implemented (#92)
    • Operator % for modulo operation implemented
    • Area syntax @(...) for in-place reader extend (#78)
    • Character-class syntax changed from [a-z] into Char<a-z>, . and Any substituted by Char (#98)
    • Improved syntax for inline blocks and sequences (|-operator)
    • Improved list syntax
      • () the empty list
      • (1,) list with one item (explicit comma required)
    • Implemented x[...] item access syntax for rvalue and lvalue (#80)
    • Preliminaries for generic parselets (#10)
    • New built-in signatures (#84)
  • Compiler
    • Parser
      • parser.rs is now generated from tokay.tok; syntax-changes are only done in tokay.tok now! (#93)
      • Removed macros.rs and macro-based bootstrap parser entirely
    • Internal revision
      • Removed structs Usage and ImlResult
      • Integrating all impl Compileables into ImlOp
      • Code construction now happens in ImlOp as well
      • Added required changes to
        • determine whether a part of code consumes input
        • preliminaries to generic parselets (yet unfinished)
    • prelude.tok provides some default-parselets defined in Tokay itself
      • Number matches either Float or Int
      • Token matches arbitrary tokens
  • Virtual Machine
    • Internal refactoring of the essential Context::collect()-function (#67)
    • Frame is now managed by Context
  • Values
    • Turned Value::Int to crate num-bigint, replaced Value::Addr by the same type (#55)
    • Definition of mutable objects; Imutable objects push a clone of, mutable objects push a ref on the object
    • dict now allow for any non-mutable value as key (#96)
  • Builtins
    • Added dict.clone(), dict_push(), dict.pop(), dict.get_item(), dict.set_item(), list.get_item(), list.set_item(), str.get_item()
    • Renamed dict_update() into dict_merge()
  • Examples
    • The self-hosted Tokay parser in examples/tokay.tok was now moved into src/compiler/tokay.tok and is used to generate src/compiler/parser.rs (#93)
    • The JSON parser example in examples/json.tok was improved to latest developments

v0.5

Released on May 17, 2022

  • v0.5.1: Improved build.rs to write builtin registry only when it changed.
  • General
    • Improved Tokay parser newline behavior to support Windows and classic Mac line ending as well
    • Moved tests from test.rs into their particular locations, so tests are written next to their implementation
    • Read from stdin when no input stream but a program that is consuming was specified
    • Moved ccl.rs into separate charclass crate
    • Equipped Reader struct with better tools for scanning (Reader::take(), Reader::span())
  • Values
    • New Object trait
    • Splitting enum Value into separate objects using Box<dyn Object>
    • unary_op() and binary_op() for RefValue, with fast-lanes for some operations
    • Replacement of separate binary- and unary-VM instructions into Op::BinaryOp and Op::UnaryOp
    • Implemented all primary operations by builtin methods
  • Builtins
    • Entire redesign of builtins using proc-macro
    • Builtin function registry generated by a build-script, substituting inventory/linkme-crates
    • Builtin functions
      • repr() to get string with Tokay object representation
      • type() to get string of Tokay value type
      • bool methods: bool()
      • int methods: int()
      • float methods: float(), float.ceil(), float.fract(), float.trunc()
      • addr methods: addr()
      • dict methods: dict(), dict.len(), dict.update()
      • list methods: list(), list.add(), list.iadd(), list.len(), list.push(), list.pop()
      • str methods: str(), str.add(), str.byteslen() str.endswith(), str.mul(), str.join(), str.len(), str.lower(), str.replace(), str.startswith(), str.substr(), str.upper()
    • Builtin tokens
      • Float allowing for parsing floating point numbers into float values
      • Ident renamed (from Identifier)
      • Int renamed (from Integer) and accepting parameters like a radix base
      • Word skipping words not in the wanted word size, but not rejecting
  • Examples
    • Self-hosted Tokay parser in examples/tokay.tok
    • Simple JSON parser in examples/json.tok

v0.4

Released on Nov 15, 2021

  • Implementation of a separated virtual machine (VM) to reduce overall stack usage (#8)
  • Removal of the recursive interpreter due to VM replacement
  • Cleaned-up and modularization of an encapsulated compiler
  • Turned compile-time building blocks into intermediate language (iml)
  • Built-in character classes
  • Started loop implementation
  • Improved debug facilities

v0.3

Released on Jul 7, 2021

  • Cleaning and finalizing syntax
  • Collections with list and dict expression
  • Consumables and built-in tokens
  • Implemented all remaining operators
  • Inline increment/decrement
  • R-value handling for subscripts and attributes, with calls to built-ins
  • Compile-time expression evaluation
  • Whitespace handling
  • Escape sequences
  • Command-line parameters

v0.2

Released on Mar 21, 2021

  • Parselets and built-ins with parameters
  • Improved error reporting
  • Interactive REPL

v0.1

Released on Mar 4, 2021

  • Character-classes
  • Universal Reader trait
  • Macros for grammar expression
  • First draft of the Tokay grammar
  • Implementing recursive interpreter
  • Left-recursive parselets
  • Sequence capturing and AST construction
  • Distinction between constants and variables
  • Symbol resolving and scopes