# Changelog All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. ### Unreleased - Remove `==`, `not==`, `order<`, `order>`, `order<=`, and `order>=`. Instead, use the normal comparison and equality functions. - Let abstract types define a hash function and comparison/equality semantics. This lets abstract types much better represent value types. This adds more fields to abstract types, which will generate warnings when compiled against other versions. - Remove Emscripten build. Instead, use the amalgamated source code with a custom toolchain. - Update documentation. - Add `module/add-paths` - Add `file/temp` - Small bug fixes - Allow signaling from C functions (yielding) via janet\_signalv. This makes it easy to write C functions that work with event loops, such as in libuv or embedded in a game. - Add `defer` - Add `assert` - Add `when-with` - Add `if-with` - Add completion to the default repl based on currently defined bindings. - Add `eachk` - Add `eachp` - Improve functionality of the `next` function. `next` now works on many different types, not just tables and structs. This allows for more generic data processing. - Fix thread module issue where sometimes decoding a message failed. - Fix segfault regression when macros are called with bad arity. ### 1.6.0 - 2019-12-22 - Add `thread/` module to the core. - Allow seeding RNGs with any sequence of bytes. This provides a wider key space for the RNG. Exposed in C as `janet_rng_longseed`. - Fix issue in `resume` and similar functions that could cause breakpoints to be skipped. - Add a number of new math functions. - Improve debugger experience and capabilities. See examples/debugger.janet for what an interactive debugger could look like. - Add `debug/step` (janet\_step in the C API) for single stepping Janet bytecode. - The built in repl now can enter the debugger on any signal (errors, yields, user signals, and debug signals). To enable this, type (setdyn :debug true) in the repl environment. - When exiting the debugger, the fiber being debugged is resumed with the exit value of the debug session (the value returned by `(quit return-value)`, or nil if user typed Ctrl-D). - `(quit)` can take an optional argument that is the return value. If a module contains `(quit some-value)`, the value of that module returned to `(require "somemod")` is the return value. This lets module writers completely customize a module without writing a loader. - Add nested quasiquotation. - Add `os/cryptorand` - Add `prinf` and `eprinf` to be have like `printf` and `eprintf`. The latter two functions now including a trailing newline, like the other print functions. - Add nan? - Add `janet_in` to C API. - Add `truthy?` - Add `os/environ` - Add `buffer/fill` and `array/fill` - Add `array/new-filled` - Use `(doc)` with no arguments to see available bindings and dynamic bindings. - `jpm` will use `CC` and `AR` environment variables when compiling programs. - Add `comptime` macro for compile time evaluation. - Run `main` functions in scripts if they exist, just like jpm standalone binaries. - Add `protect` macro. - Add `root-env` to get the root environment table. - Change marshalling protocol with regard to abstract types. - Add `show-paths` to `jpm`. - Add several default patterns, like `:d` and `:s+`, to PEGs. - Update `jpm` path settings to make using `jpm` easier on non-global module trees. - Numerous small bug fixes and usability improvements. ### 1.5.1 - 2019-11-16 - Fix bug when printing buffer to self in some edge cases. - Fix bug with `jpm` on windows. - Fix `update` return value. ## 1.5.0 - 2019-11-10 - `os/date` now defaults to UTC. - Add `--test` flag to jpm to test libraries on installation. - Add `math/rng`, `math/rng-int`, and `math/rng-uniform`. - Add `in` function to index in a stricter manner. Conversely, `get` will now not throw errors on bad keys. - Indexed types and byte sequences will now error when indexed out of range or with bad keys. - Add rng functions to Janet. This also replaces the RNG behind `math/random` and `math/seedrandom` with a consistent, platform independent RNG. - Add `with-vars` macro. - Add the `quickbin` command to jpm. - Create shell.c when making the amalgamated source. This can be compiled with janet.c to make the janet interpreter. - Add `cli-main` function to the core, which invokes Janet's CLI interface. This basically moves what was init.janet into boot.janet. - Improve flychecking, and fix flychecking bugs introduced in 1.4.0. - Add `prin`, `eprint`, `eprintf` and `eprin` functions. The functions prefix with e print to `(dyn :err stderr)` - Print family of functions can now also print to buffers (before, they could only print to files.) Output can also be completely disabled with `(setdyn :out false)`. - `printf` is now a c function for optimizations in the case of printing to buffers. ## 1.4.0 - 2019-10-14 - Add `quit` function to exit from a repl, but not always exit the entire application. - Add `update-pkgs` to jpm. - Integrate jpm with https://github.com/janet-lang/pkgs.git. jpm can now install packages based on their short names in the package listing, which can be customized via an env variable. - Add `varfn` macro - Add compile time arity checking when function in function call is known. - Added `slice` to the core library. - The `*/slice` family of functions now can take nil as start or end to get the same behavior as the defaults (0 and -1) for those parameters. - `string/` functions that take a pattern to search for will throw an error when receiving the empty string. - Replace (start:end) style stacktrace source position information with line, column. This should be more readable for humans. Also, range information can be recovered by re-parsing source. ## 1.3.1 - 2019-09-21 - Fix some linking issues when creating executables with native dependencies. - jpm now runs each test script in a new interpreter. - Fix an issue that prevent some valid programs from compiling. - Add `mean` to core. - Abstract types that implement the `:+`, `:-`, `:*`, `:/`, `:>`, `:==`, `:<`, `:<=`, and `:>=` methods will work with the corresponding built-in arithmetic functions. This means built-in integer types can now be used as normal number values in many contexts. - Allow (length x) on typed arrays an other abstract types that implement the :length method. ## 1.3.0 - 2019-09-05 - Add `get-in`, `put-in`, `update-in`, and `freeze` to core. - Add `jpm run rule` and `jpm rules` to jpm to improve utility and discoverability of jpm. - Remove `cook` module and move `path` module to https://github.com/janet-lang/path.git. The functionality in `cook` is now bundled directly in the `jpm` script. - Add `buffer/format` and `string/format` format flags `Q` and `q` to print colored and non-colored single-line values, similar to `P` and `p`. - Change default repl to print long sequences on one line and color stacktraces if color is enabled. - Add `backmatch` pattern for PEGs. - jpm detects if not in a Developer Command prompt on windows for a better error message. - jpm install git submodules in dependencies - Change default fiber stack limit to the maximum value of a 32 bit signed integer. - Some bug fixes with `jpm` - Fix bugs with pegs. - Add `os/arch` to get ISA that janet was compiled for - Add color to stacktraces via `(dyn :err-color)` ## 1.2.0 - 2019-08-08 - Add `take` and `drop` functions that are easier to use compared to the existing slice functions. - Add optional default value to `get`. - Add function literal short-hand via `|` reader macro, which maps to the `short-fn` macro. - Add `int?` and `nat?` functions to the core. - Add `(dyn :executable)` at top level to get what used to be `(process/args 0)`. - Add `:linux` to platforms returned by `(os/which)`. - Update jpm to build standalone executables. Use `declare-executable` for this. - Add `use` macro. - Remove `process/args` in favor of `(dyn :args)`. - Fix bug with Nanbox implementation allowing users to created custom values of any type with typed array and marshal modules, which was unsafe. - Add `janet_wrap_number_safe` to API, for converting numbers to Janets where the number could be any 64 bit, user provided bit pattern. Certain NaN values (which a machine will never generate as a result of a floating point operation) are guarded against and converted to a default NaN value. ## 1.1.0 - 2019-07-08 - Change semantics of `-l` flag to be import rather than dofile. - Fix compiler regression in top level defs with destructuring. - Add `table/clone`. - Improve `jpm` tool with git and dependency capabilities, as well as better module uninstalls. ## 1.0.0 - 2019-07-01 - Add `with` macro for resource handling. - Add `propagate` function so we can "rethrow" signals after they are intercepted. This makes signals even more flexible. - Add `JANET_NO_DOCSTRINGS` and `JANET_NO_SOURCEMAPS` defines in janetconf.h for shrinking binary size. This seems to save about 50kB in most builds, so it's not usually worth it. - Update module system to allow relative imports. The `:cur:` pattern in `module/expand-path` will expand to the directory part of the current file, or whatever the value of `(dyn :current-file)` is. The `:dir:` pattern gets the directory part of the input path name. - Remove `:native:` pattern in `module/paths`. - Add `module/expand-path` - Remove `module/*syspath*` and `module/*headerpath*` in favor of dynamic bindings `:syspath` and `:headerpath`. - Compiled PEGs can now be marshaled and unmarshaled. - Change signature to `parser/state` - Add `:until` verb to loop. - Add `:p` flag to `fiber/new`. - Add `file/{fdopen,fileno}` functions. - Add `parser/clone` function. - Add optional argument to `parser/where` to set parser byte index. - Add optional `env` argument to `all-bindings` and `all-dynamics`. - Add scratch memory C API functions for auto-released memory on next gc. Scratch memory differs from normal GCed memory as it can also be freed normally for better performance. - Add API compatibility checking for modules. This will let native modules not load when the host program is not of a compatible version or configuration. - Change signature of `os/execute` to be much more flexible. ## 0.6.0 - 2019-05-29 - `file/close` returns exit code when closing file opened with `file/popen`. - Add `os/rename` - Update windows installer to include tools like `jpm`. - Add `jpm` tool for building and managing projects. - Change interface to `cook` tool. - Add optional filters to `module/paths` to further refine import methods. - Add keyword arguments via `&keys` in parameter list. - Add `-k` flag for flychecking source. - Change signature to `compile` function. - Add `module/loaders` for custom loading functions. - Add external unification to `match` macro. - Add static library to main build. - Add `janet/*headerpath*` and change location of installed headers. - Let `partition` take strings. - Haiku OS support - Add `string/trim`, `string/trimr`, and `string/triml`. - Add `dofile` function. - Numbers require at least 1 significant digit. - `file/read` will return nil on end of file. - Fix various bugs. ## 0.5.0 - 2019-05-09 - Fix some bugs with buffers. - Add `trace` and `untrace` to the core library. - Add `string/has-prefix?` and `string/has-suffix?` to string module. - Add simple debugger to repl that activates on errors or debug signal - Remove `*env*` and `*doc-width*`. - Add `fiber/getenv`, `fiber/setenv`, and `dyn`, and `setdyn`. - Add support for dynamic bindings (via the `dyn` and `setdyn` functions). - Change signatures of some functions like `eval` which no longer takes an optional environment. - Add printf function - Make `pp` configurable with dynamic binding `:pretty-format`. - Remove the `meta` function. - Add `with-dyns` for blocks with dynamic bindings assigned. - Allow leading and trailing newlines in backtick-delimited string (long strings). These newlines will not be included in the actual string value. ## 0.4.1 - 2019-04-14 - Squash some bugs - Peg patterns can now make captures in any position in a grammar. - Add color to repl output - Add array/remove function - Add meson build support - Add int module for int types - Add meson build option - Add (break) special form and improve loop macro - Allow abstract types to specify custom tostring method - Extend C API for marshalling abstract types and other values - Add functions to `os` module. ## 0.4.0 - 2019-03-08 - Fix a number of smaller bugs - Added :export option to import and require - Added typed arrays - Remove `callable?`. - Remove `tuple/append` and `tuple/prepend`, which may have seemed like `O(1)` operations. Instead, use the `splice` special to extend tuples. - Add `-m` flag to main client to allow specifying where to load system modules from. - Add `-c` flag to main client to allow compiling Janet modules to images. - Add `string/format` and `buffer/format`. - Remove `string/pretty` and `string/number`. - `make-image` function creates pre compiled images for janet. These images link to the core library. They can be loaded via require or manually via `load-image`. - Add bracketed tuples as tuple constructor. - Add partition function to core library. - Pre-compile core library into an image for faster startup. - Add methods to parser values that mirror the api. - Add janet\_getmethod to CAPI for easier use of method like syntax. - Add get/set to abstract types to allow them to behave more like objects with methods. - Add parser/insert to modify parser state programmatically - Add debug/stacktrace for easy, pretty stacktraces - Remove the status-pp function - Update API to run-context to be much more sane - Add :lflags option to cook/make-native - Disallow NaNs as table or struct keys - Update module resolution paths and format ## 0.3.0 - 2019-01-26 - Add amalgamated build to janet for easier embedding. - Add os/date function - Add slurp and spit to core library. - Added this changelog. - Added peg module (Parsing Expression Grammars) - Move hand written documentation into website repository.