Samarium 0.6.2

Changed

• Session names now only allow a limited set of characters ([a-zA-Z0-9_\-])

Fixed

• :session load will no longer crash on a non-existent session

Samarium 0.6.1

Changed

• Rewrote REPL config handling to not use the configzen library

Samarium 0.6.0

Added

• =>! now accepts strings
• Added an exception note for string.split
• Allowed adding notes for !!!
• Command system for the REPL
• Data classes
• Function composition
• Made the semicolon optional for !, !!!, *, **
• math.max and math.min now work with varargs
• String+
• -String
• ~Table
• The REPL now automatically displays most expressions

Changed

• String ++ -Number now throws a type error (ambiguous operation)

Fixed

• Fixed function conversion when @exporting
• Fixed internal name of math.round
• Fixed math.sqrt using an incorrect variable name
• Fixed multiline string handling in the REPL
• Fixed REPL quitting on syntax error
• math.round now correctly provides a default value for ndigits
• The transpiler now correctly disallows literals around identifiers
• types.Boolean should now correctly interract with external types
• Various minor fixes to the transpiler

Samarium 0.5.3

Fixed

• Fixed entrypoint argc check template

Samarium 0.5.2

Fixed

• Corrected types.Number type alias name

Samarium 0.5.1

Added

• ~ is now equal to -1 when not followed by a value (e.g. ~; or ~<, but not ~x or ~/\)

Fixed

• Implicit null is no longer placed before ~ (meaning that e.g. >~< is no longer invalid syntax)

Samarium 0.5.0

Added

• collections.Queue now supports membership checking
• collections.Set now uses the built-in set-based Array operations (working with small sets can be up to 3,600x faster)
• Files are now iterable
• iter.filter and iter.map now adapt to functions based on their number of parameters
• math.is_int
• math.ceil
• math.floor
• math.round
• math.to_bin (to replace Integer$)
• Number type (in place of the Integer type):
  • supports floats
  • x$ now floors the number
  • x -- y now does true division rather than floor division
• Number literals, using ` as the decimal point (meaning that it's no longer ignored by the tokenizer)
• Nulls can now be cast to Numbers
• Parallel assignment
• random.sample now supports slices
• Set-based Array operations:
  • -x returns a copy of x with duplicates removed
  • x -- y ("difference") tries removing elements of y from x, even if they're not present
  • x --- y removes all duplicates of y in x
  • x | y ("union") creates an array with elements that appear in either x or y (duplicates possible)
  • x & y ("intersection") creates an array with elements that appear in both x and y (duplicates possible)
  • x ^ y ("symmetric difference") creates an array with elements that appear in either x or y, but not both (duplicates possible)
• Slices are now hashable
• String -- String (old String - String behavior)
• String++ (equivalent to String ++ /\)
• string.split now accepts multiple separators
• String→Number now supports scientific notation
• string.split_lines
• Strings can have their characters shifted by adding or subtracting Integers
• types.Frozen

Changed

• Flipped argument order for iter.reduce
• Improved Array/Slice/String index typechecking
• Improved CLI error messages
• Improved error messages
• Improved File.__str__
• Improved implicit null detection
• Improved slice transpilation
• random.shuffle now does type checking againast slices
• String - String now removes only the first occurence
• The main function is no longer required
• Two or more consecutive logical NOTs are now considered a syntax error

Fixed

• Comments are now correctly tokenized
• Fixed ... special method not being detected
• Fixed Slice→Array construction
• Fixed some yield statements crashing the transpiler
• Functions are now correctly displayed in Arrays/Tables
• Logical NOT (~~) no longer lets Python's bool slip in
• Multiline strings are now correctly tokenized
• Number ++ String is no longer detected as an invalid operation
• Slices are now correctly detected as objects directly after scope exit
• String.__repr__ now correctly handles escape sequences
• Type(a) != B no longer yields incorrect results
• UserAttrs can no longer show up when using x!?
• Varargs functions now work correctly with recursive functions and decorators

Removed

• collections.StaticArray
• Integer type

The Examples page was also updated with new examples.

Thanks to @DancingGrumpyCat for improving the documentation!

Samarium 0.4.0

Added

• Array%
• Enum%
• io module:
  • io.Bytes
  • io.inputcast
  • io.read_until
• iter.cycle by @Lunarmagpie
• New import system, including:
  • import aliases
  • inline imports
• New special method syntax
• Partial Python Interoperability by @Endercheif
• start parameter for math.sum, thus allowing to sum non-Integers
• Static methods (~'* keyword)
• string.ordinal
• string.split() now supports separators of length greater than 1, and also handles empty separators
• Strings of length greater than 1 can now be cast into Arrays of Integers
• Subtracting strings
• Support for ^L, ^[[A, ^[[B, ^[[C, ^[[D in the REPL
• to_bit methods for:
  • Enum
  • File
  • Iterator
  • Module
• Types and functions are now hashable
• Zip >< operator
• Zip type

Changed

• Flipped argument order for:
  • iter.map
  • iter.filter
  • iter.filter_false
• Greatly improved error messages
• Improved collections.Set methods:
  • Replaced union with |
  • Replaced intersection with &
  • Replaced difference with -
  • Removed is_subset in place of ::, :::, >, <, >:, <: operator support
• Improved function to string conversion
• Improved implicit null detection
• Improved readline error handling
• Improved slice object detection
• Improved string integer parsing
• Improved variable type verification
• Rewrote the objects (should be 10–50% faster than Samarium 0.3.1 🚀)
• Replaced the native tokenizer with a crossandra tokenizer (~3x faster tokenization 🚀)
• Updated to_string methods of:
  • collections.ArithmeticArray
  • collections.Deque
  • collections.Queue
  • collections.Set

Fixed

• collections.Set.#new_set_size now takes unsized sets into consideration
• Constructing Slices from Type now correctly works
• Error message shown when trying to run an unknown file is now written to stderr, not stdout
• Syntax errors now cannot be caught

Removed

• collections.Set.values() (use collections.Set.items)
• English special method names
• iter.zip (use the >< operator)
• iter.enumerate (use the >< operator with <<>>)
• Some dead code :)
• string.format (use String's --- operator)

---

Also big thanks to @qexat & @Celeo for code improvements! ❤️

Samarium 0.3.1

Fixed

• Added missing cases for implicit null

Removed

• Unused imports & variables in the standard library
• Unused slots in built-in types

Samarium 0.3.0

Added

• ** (the yield statement)
• Array support for string.format
• Better error messages
• datetime module by @Endercheif
• Enums
• iter.chunks
• iter.flatten
• iter.sorted
• Iterators
• Memory address lookup
• Private variables
• snake_case support
• Substring support for iter.find_all

Changed

• # for assert has been replaced by !!
• @@ now returns the Unix timestamp
• @@@ now returns the date and time array
• Classes can now be used as entry points
• Improved hashing speed
• Improved iter module speed by making it use Iterators over Arrays
• Moved from termcolor to Dahlia
• Rewrote the transpiler
• Slice objects are now iterable and can be used as ranges (about 3–7x faster than iter.range 🚀)
• Slices now use .. instead of ** for the step delimiter (<<x..y**z>> would be <<x..y..z>>)
• Class special method names were changed to snake_case
• Standard Library function names were changed to snake_case
• Standard Library constant names were changed to SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE
• to_string method doesn't need to be defined for the object to be printable (defaults to <ClassName@MemoryAddress>)

Fixed

• Nested slicing

Removed

• _ as a null token
• iter.range (use slices)
• iter.sort (use iter.sorted)