v0.8.8

Auto dereferencing for method calls and property accesses (#1098)

Enhancements:

• Support auto dereferencing of references for method calls and property accesses #1097

Bugs fixed:

• Assignable properties in traits are not public #1096

v0.8.7

Use scoped disposal to manage speculative parsing (#1095)

Technical

• Create disposable wrappers around the tokenizer and logger speculation mechanisms
• Use let use rather than try / finally where possible to ensure speculation always properly back-tracked or committed

v0.8.6

Clean-up tokenizer lookahead (#1094)

Technical:

• Adjust the way the token queue read + write indexes are maintained so the pre-speculate state can be restored without having to save the previous token on the speculative token queue index stack
• Add unit tests for the token queue and speculative token lookahead mechanisms.

v0.8.5

Fix scoped disposal of value types (#1093)

Bugs fixed:

• Scoped disposal doesn't work correctly for value types (closes #1092)

v0.8.4

Scoped resource disposal (#1091)

Enhancements:

• Scoped disposal of local variables declared with let use (closes #1090)
• Prevent assignment to captured values (was a warning, now an error)

v0.8.3

String interpolation align and format support (#1088)

Enhancements:

• Support alignment and format specifiers for interpolated expressions in string literals (#1071)
• Improved error recovery and reporting for incomplete string interpolations

Technical

• Increase the timeout for the create version CI workflow job

v0.8.2

Parser recovery improvements (#1087)

Enhancements:

• Better parser error recovery for incomplete and garbled class, method and property definitions (see #1086)

Technical:

• Rewrite the tokenizer lookahead mechanism so it reliably supports multiple levels of speculation
• Replace use of string concatenation with interpolation throughout the compiler source

v0.8.1

Fix can't return string interpolation (#1085)

Bugs fixed:

• Attempting to return a string with interpolations using a return statement results in a syntax error

v0.8.0

String interpolation support (#1083)

Enhancements:

• Support string interpolation in literals delimited with double quotes (see #1071)

Technical:

• Remove broken version number input from workflow dispatch trigger in CI pipeline YAML

Notes:

• This version changes how string literals are interpreted. Existing code with string literals that contain { and } will need to be updated to quote them. See linked issue for details.

Bumps #minor version

v0.7.13

Scaffolding for string interpolation (#1082)

Technical:

• Add temporary support for quoting curly braces in plain string literals by doubling them.

Notes:

• This is needed to support bootstrapping the compiler over the addition of string interpolation support to regular double quoted strings.