v0.1.0

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v0.1.0 (2020-09-20)

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Fixed bugs:

• Incorrect references to actual generic type arguments in IL names #310
• Box values before storing in variables #306
• Inherited trait methods have incorrect IL names #305
• Return statement value type not checked against function return type #297
• Expression statements leave value on evaluation stack #294
• new overload resolution incorrect #292
• CIL assembler not generated for generic ancestors #289
• When calling methods on structs, need to push address, not value #279
• Generic type arguments need to use positional ids rather than names in called function return types #278
• Variables of struct type need to be valuetype in CIL assembler #277
• Expression bodied functions are not correctly compiled #254
• Various VSCode features don't work for symbols in if statements #242
• Overrides not resolved for methods that are never called #241
• Called function names must use generic type parameter names #233
• Calls to methods in generic classes don't resolve to correct symbol #231
• Generic types have broken IL type names #215
• Local variable names not guaranteed unique within CIL method scope #202
• Symbols in CIL assembler are not correctly quoted #199
• CIL member names should be qualified with '::' not '.' #198
• Member names in generated CIL should not be qualified #197
• Types show up multiple times at the same location when searching for references #137
• Type constraints not recognized in type comparisons #123
• Incomplete namespace crashes compiler #122
• Incomplete use crashes compiler #121
• Generic type parameters leak into parents' scopes #118
• inconsistancy: trailing redundant comma is harmless in enum but is error in array initialisation #96
• let process = new Util.Process(); gives error #95
• == returns false for apparently equal strings #94
• String.Length misreports length of UTF8 strings #93
• Full rebuild required after delay #86
• enumerations should inherit from ENUM[T] #66
• "super" still searches "self" #63
• Precedence of unary operators is too high #62
• "self" is not specialized #61
• properties with no body not recognized #52

Closed issues:

• Conditional compilation #288
• Generate CIL assembler for references to enum members #282
• Generate CIL assembler for enum definitions #281
• Bodies for auto-generated property accessors #253
• Innate method support #237
• System.String add operator #236
• Boxing/unboxing of value types #229
• DotNET integration tests #218
• Trait methods should be abstract in CIL #207
• CIL assembly for return statement and for fall through at end of function #203
• Way to specify CIL entrypoint #201
• Add to\_string\(\) method to System.Object in L library #186
• Multiple pragmas on a single definition or statement #185
• CIL name for symbols that can be set via a pragma and will be used in preference to their ghul when emitting CIL #183
• Overridden methods and properties should inherit their CIL name from the method they override #182
• Running test case gives 'no such file' for tester #178
• Extend L implementation for for-each loop to look for 'getcurrent' and 'move_next' methods and prefer to use them if present #177
• Pragmas #167
• Way to test incomplete CIL output #165
• Assign implicit values to enum members #164
• Option to select DotNET as target #163
• Spawn ilasm.exe to assemble generated CIL #159
• Write generated CIL assembler to a temporary file #158
• Mechanism for creating and referencing code labels #157
• Generate CIL for short circuit Boolean operators #156
• Generate CIL for variable initializers #155
• Generate CIL for case statements #153
• Generate CIL for while statements #152
• Generate CIL for for statements #151
• Generate CIL for if statements #150
• Map core DotNET type and member names to ghul equivalents #148
• Generate IL for function literals #135
• CIL for static and instance function declarations #134
• CIL for instance and static variable declarations #133
• CIL for class and trait declarations #132
• Function argument and local variable declarations #131
• Type conversion for CIL evalutation stack values #130
• Generate CIL symbol names for all ghul symbols #129
• support for utf-8 in strings #92
• add support for native methods #90
• add support for structs #89
• import the L library #67
• Build of example test.ghul from VSC gives error #65
• Type representation for tuples #60
• function override/overload resolution #59
• parse throw statement #57
• parse self and super #56
• lazy values #55
• generalise operators #54
• auto-generate base visitor class #53
• parse has-value operator #50
• static members or alternative #49
• parse enums #48
• parse cast expressions #47
• parse new expression #46
• parse use #45
• parse access modifiers and storage classes #43
• test framework #42
• parse numeric literals #41
• parse character literals #40
• don't rebuild from generated legacy source if new source unchanged #36
• name for new language #35
• compiler driver should handle projects with files in mix of new and legacy syntax #34
• drive legacy compiler to compile generated legacy source #33
• legacy compiler should emit error locations consistent with new compiler #32
• legacy pretty printer should emit #file and #line directives #31
• parse list literals #30
• parse indexed properties #27
• parse indexers #26
• parse namespaces #23
• parse property definitions #22
• parse function definitions #21
• parse class definitions #20
• parse expressions #19
• parse loop labels #18
• parse break and continue #17
• parse while statements #16
• parse expression statements #15
• parse assignment statements #14
• parse return statements #13
• parse case statements #12
• parse try statements #11
• parse for statements #10
• parse while statements #9
• parse if statements #8
• pretty printer for legacy syntax #7
• AST rewriters #6
• tame visitor implementation #5
• deleted #4
• choose parser generator #3
• grammar #2
• tokenizer #1

Merged pull requests:

• Release pipeline 1 #330 (degory)
• Release pipeline #329 (degory)
• Conditional compilation target selection in analysis mode #328 (degory)
• Docker push on manual workflow run #326 (degory)
• Delete dead code #324 (degory)
• Improve analysis mode error handling #323 (degory)
• Docker pull ghul/compiler:stable on install #322 (degory)
• Allow manual build from GitHub #321 (degory)
• Check prerequisites before installing #318 (degory)
• Installer 1 #317 (degory)
• Start work on installer #316 (degory)
• Bug fixes #315 (degory)
• Remove unhelpful trait override warning #312 (degory)
• Use original formal generic arguments in IL names #311 (degory)
• Fix issue where inherited trait methods had incorrect IL names #309 (degory)
• Fix issue with exception variable type. Fix issue with overriding methods in generic traits. #304 (degory)
• Fix CIL generation for expression bodied functions and properties #300 (degory)
• Conditional compilation for L and .NET specific code #296 (degory)
• Fix constructor resolution #293 (degory)
• Fix issue where no CIL generated for generic ancestors #291 (degory)
• Fix CIL assembly for case statements #286 (degory)
• Enum and struct fixes #284 (degory)
• Generate CIL assembler for for loops #272 (degory)
• CIL code generation bug fixes #271 (degory)
• Fix issues with comparison operators #270 (degory)
• Fix CIL for isa. Throw when no CIL implemented for a value #269 (degory)
• Property auto body #260 (degory)
• Support legacy compilation combined with ghul type-check #259 (degory)
• CIL assembler for anonymous functions within instance methods #258 (degory)
• Fix various exceptions thrown when attempting to generate CIL for compiler itself #252 (degory)
• Initial support for break and continue #251 (degory)
• Work on generating CIL for control flow #248 (degory)
• Method override and inheritance bug fixes #246 (degory)
• Fix block statement location #245 (degory)
• Correct CIL for instance and static fields #240 (degory)
• String add operator #239 (degory)
• Fix failure to box literal function call arguments #235 (degory)
• Fix issues calling methods in generic classes #234 (degory)
• Pull stable container before install #232 (degory)
• Auto box value types #230 (degory)
• Fix variable initializers #228 (degory)
• Improved Markdown formatting for test results #227 (degory)
• Report test results in Markdown rather than XML #221 (degory)
• Include ilasm errors in testable build output #220 (degory)
• Separate out legacy tests, so new tests can be run under mono #219 (degory)
• Fix naming of generic symbols in CIL assembler #217 (degory)
• Make non-static methods virtual and make trait methods abstract #216 (degory)
• Fix issue where unnecessary passes were run for legacy target builds #214 (degory)
• Output a runtimeconfig.json for DotNET executables #210 (degory)
• Assemble CIL output with ilasm #209 (degory)
• Return from functions to avoid fall-through #206 (degory)
• Ensure local variable names in CIL assembly are unique within their method #205 (degory)
• Qualify class members in CIL with '::' rather than '.' #195 (degory)
• Properties improvements #194 (degory)
• Fix issue in install.sh script #193 (degory)
• Work on CIL support for properties and static storage class #192 (degory)
• Remove references to lcache #191 (degory)
• More descriptive IL test names #190 (degory)
• More work on generating CIL for types and definitions #189 (degory)
• Start outputting CIL for types + definitions #188 (degory)
• Remove dead code #187 (degory)
• Anonymous volume in build.sh #180 (quanglewangle)
• Start implementing subset of .NET collections #179 (degory)
• Extension point for innate operation IL generation #173 (degory)
• Fix issue where bootstrap failed on WSL + Docker #172 (degory)
• Reproducible IL tests #171 (degory)
• Enable testing of generated IL assembler #170 (degory)
• Parse statement pragmas #169 (degory)
• Parse pragmas applied to definitions #168 (degory)
• Parse generic functions #162 (degory)
• Improve messages for type errors #161 (degory)
• Type check assignments #160 (degory)
• README additions and fixes #145 (degory)
• Clean up tests and scripts #144 (degory)
• Bug fixes #143 (degory)
• Restart analyser if no handler found for command #141 (degory)
• Clean up repository #140 (degory)
• Create CODEOWNERS #139 (degory)
• Bug fixes #138 (degory)
• Fix crash on incomplete use. Fix test snapshot capture script. #136 (degory)
• Include actual operation in innate call IR value #128 (degory)
• Work on IL output #127 (degory)
• More accurate IL values #126 (degory)
• Start to generate dummy IL #125 (degory)
• Fix issue where generic type parameters do not compare correctly as inheriting from their parent type #124 (degory)
• Migrate version number file from L to Ghul #120 (degory)
• Tactical fix for issue where generic arguments leak into unrelated specializations #119 (degory)
• Fix self incorrect type #117 (degory)
• Fix tests. Simplify test run script. Delete old test run scripts. #112 (degory)
• Fix member completion for values of type variable type #111 (degory)
• Generic type parameter constraints #110 (degory)
• Remove Root trait. Mark innate functions. Correct type for compare operators #108 (degory)
• Fix hover column offset #107 (degory)
• Placeholder IL generation pass #106 (degory)
• Remove debug output from analysis mode #104 (degory)
• Remove references to LLVM #103 (degory)
• Add GitHub CI badge to README.md #102 (degory)
• Don't docker push to bare branch name #101 (degory)
• Run docker commit script on push to master branch #100 (degory)
• Use GitHub action run id as build number if available #99 (degory)
• Create main.yml #98 (degory)

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