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diff --git a/web/news.txt b/web/news.txt index 8730b631e..b3453feaf 100644 --- a/web/news.txt +++ b/web/news.txt @@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ News should be used instead. - ``nim idetools`` has been replaced by a separate tool `nimsuggest`_. - *arrow like* operators are not right associative anymore. + - *arrow like* operators are now required to end with either ``->``, ``~>`` or + ``=>``, not just ``>``. Examples of operators still considered arrow like: + ``->``, ``==>``, ``+=>``. On the other hand, the following operators are now + considered regular operators again: ``|>``, ``-+>``, etc. - Typeless parameters are now only allowed in templates and macros. The old way turned out to be too error-prone. - The 'addr' and 'type' operators are now parsed as unary function @@ -69,7 +73,15 @@ News spacing around binary operators. Later versions of the language will parse these as unary operators instead so that ``echo $foo`` finally can do what people expect it to do. - + - ``system.untyped`` and ``system.typed`` have been introduced as aliases + for ``expr`` and ``stmt``. The new names capture the semantics much better + and most likely ``expr`` and ``stmt`` will be deprecated in favor of the + new names. + - The ``split`` method in module ``re`` has changed. It now handles the case + of matches having a length of 0, and empty strings being yielded from the + iterator. A notable change might be that a pattern being matched at the + beginning and end of a string, will result in an empty string being produced + at the start and the end of the iterator. Language Additions ------------------ @@ -113,6 +125,9 @@ News - Array and seq indexing can now use the builtin ``^`` operator to access things from backwards: ``a[^1]`` is like Python's ``a[-1]``. + - A first version of the specification and implementation of the overloading + of the assignment operator has arrived! + - ``system.len`` for strings and sequences now returns 0 for nil. - A single underscore can now be used to discard values when unpacking tuples. @@ -125,6 +140,10 @@ News with a ``newMultipartData`` proc. - Added `%*` operator for JSON. - The compiler is now available as Nimble package for c2nim. + - Added ``..^`` and ``..<`` templates to system so that the rather annoying + space between ``.. <`` and ``.. ^`` is not necessary anymore. + - Added ``system.xlen`` for strings and sequences to get back the old ``len`` + operation that doesn't check for ``nil`` for efficiency. Bugfixes |