This helps for temporarily setting vars in a safe
manner that is guaranteed not to leave vars in a bad state
(assuming that a fiber does not emit debug or use signal and
is never resumed).
This makes it easier to get the CLI functionality when
embedding Janet, although the main reason is the init script
is now pre-compiled to bytecode when generating the boot image.
Flychecking will now work correctly with arity checking, and
will better handle imports. Well structured modules should interact
cleanly with the flychecker in a mostly safe manner, but maliciously
crafted modules can execute arbitrary code. As such, the flychecker is
not a good way to validate completely untrusted modules.
We also extend run-context with an :evaluator option to replace
:compile-only. This is more flexible and allows users to create their
own flychecker like functionality.
This allows some more optimizations when printing to
buffers or when output is disabled. It also makes printf
more consistent with print and prin (Same with eprintf).
The print family of functions now writes output
to an optional buffer instead of a file bound to :out.
This means output can be more easily captured an redirected.
This should be friendlier to most users. It does, however, mean
we lose range information. However, range information could be
recovered by re-parsing, as janet's grammar is simple enough to do this.
Mostly changes to cook and jpm. Also some
code for file associations in the windows installer, and
adding the :linux value from os/which (instead of just :posix).
This allows better stacktraces when manually intercepting
signals to clean up resources. Also allows functionality
from Common Lisp's unwind-protect, such as calling cleanup code
while unwindinding the stack, restarting on certain signals, and
just in general having more control over signal and signal propagation.
Also fix a bug encountered while implementing with-resource in the
compiler. Desturcturing arguments that were not the last argument
would often result in bad code generation, as slots used to destructure
the earlier arguments would invalidate the later parameters. This is
fixed by allocating all named parameters before doing any destructuring.
This lets us build a smaller binary. The minimal tested
binary on x86-64 (with -Os, -s, and all options that shrink binary size
turned on) is about 240 kB.
We will probably shift to NSIS as the default
installation method for windows. Shipping around a
single binary just doesn't cut it if we want to be able
to reliably use tools like `jpm` to build things.
Using a quote on a symbol prevents the match
macro from trying to create a binding to it, and
instead tells it that we are binding to a symbol
that is already in scope.
- Allow passing a table to fibers, which make fiber level scope easier.
- Add fiber/getenv, fiber/setenv, dyn, and setdyn
- Remove meta, *env*, and *doc-width*
- Some functions changed dignatures, and no longer take an env
When os/stat is not available, we first
try to read one byte from the file before
saying it is good. If that fails, it is not
a file that we can read from so it counts as not found.
Some peg grammars could not capture values based on their position in a
larger grammar. This is a design limitation inheritted from LPeg, but no
longer needed as the replace mode is superseded by the accumulator mode,
which is more general if slightly harder to use.
Allow overriding functions in the core libray to provide better
functionality on startup. Used to include our getline function in
the repl but use a simpler version in the core library.
This should speed up start time and reduce malloc/free
usage to about 15% of what is what previously for startup.
The current cost is slightly larger binary as the representaion
of the image is currently less compact than source code.
