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Learn about vigilant mode.

In what started as an optimistic rewrite, a quest for better/safer C++ and a more efficient and sensible design, ultimately turned out at best, somewhat better than 0.1.0. As best stated in emojis, this deserves: 🤷. Below is a summary of the various improvements and disimprovements that come with this release. Note, this is not backwards compatible, so if anyone has actually tried to write some sailfish, 0.1.0 code will no longer work.

Improvements

  • removal of raw pointers
  • utilization of inherited/synthesized attributes as part of grammar's syntax directed translation
  • removal of AST
  • CLI facelift
  • tree expression instead of if-else statements
  • homogeneous lists
  • properly functioning nested expressions
  • ++ and -- unary operators
  • separation of udt's and scripts
  • slightly more extensive standard library allowing for some basic list functionality

Disimprovements

  • due to strong coupling of parsing/semantic analysis/transpilation, test suite was removed
  • favors higher order functions and recursion over OOD
  • did I mention coupling and generally poor Object Oriented Design (sorry Dale!)
  • udt's cannot utilize other udt's
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