Because we use an amalgated build, feature
test macros should be set in a single file that
is included before any other headers, and is placed
at the top of the amalgamated build.
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 should help catch a number of errors, but it
is a very shallow implementation of type checking. It will
catch some common misuses of functions at compile time
rather than runtime.
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.
The break special form can break out of both loops
and functions with an early (nil) return. Mainly useful
for generated code in macros, and should probably be discouraged
in user written code.
Before, we used a local setjmp/longjmp for error handling.
Using janet_panic means errors can be more easily expressive and
code can be smaller.
However, we still need to make vector memory get gc collected, as
panics can cause the runtime to skip janet_v_frees.
A consistent style should help with contributors and
readability. We use astyle as the formatter as can make a pretty
good approximation of the current style and my preferred style.
Astyle can be found at http://astyle.sourceforge.net/astyle.html
We need to be able to detect tuple type from janet code, otherwise
tuples will contain hidden state. The tuple/type function is able
to detect the flags in the tuple so the programmer can access them
if needed.
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.
Disable tail calls in the root scope for better
stacktraces, as the root scope may contain a single call
to a failing function, as in the case of the test suite.
to make janet function calls easier and faster from C (still
needs an object pool for fibers, though). Fix bug in scan-number
and add many more peg tests.
Error handling is implemented with setjmp/longjmp so code
can be more concise. This required a very large but straight forward refactor for all
of the libraries.
