Revamped the compilation system; it now works fully modular. Also, a new ScriptingEngine class has been created to make it very easy to create a scripting environment.
- Ranges now only have a single base type; from and to must be the same type
- Adjusted builtins and stdlib to use usize where applicable
- Moved building a SemanticModule from ParsedFile to the parser; reduces dependencies
- Fixed various issues with generics and made instancing strict (all generic types MUST be defined in the mapper or an exception is thrown)
- Member registration mapping is now all-or-nothing: either no mapping is performed (for local scopes) or ALL mentioned type parameters must have an entry in the type parameter map.
- Static inner type IDs (including inner interfaces and inner aliases) no longer record their outer type; this caused problems when comparing types
- Fixed numerous issues with undetermined types, type inference, type aliases, inner types and generic types
- Distinguished between type resolution and code compilation stages, both have a different context now
- Added new concepts: "compiling type" and "compiling package", which is able to precompile correctly now
- Rewrote the way precompilation works; precompilation no longer exists, instead, compilation order of methods is changed. This reduces the amount of code needed and improves quality of the system.
- Fixed members of base interfaces not being available to implementation code
- Changed the way type modifiers are coded
- Changed the way modified types are processed
- Added immutable keyword
- Added expression, statement and type normalization
- Improved naming of synthetic functions
- Added support for implementations and method overriding
- Added override method header inference: if a method overrides or implements another method, and types are missing from the header, these will be inherited from the base method. This works with any kind of method (method, operator, getter, setter, caller)
- Added method return type inference, which is automatically inferred from the return value of the contents of the method. This functionality is not yet fully implemented, and will fail with certain expressions (most notably, member expressions and calls). The goal is to make this system work as long as there is no recursion. This works with methods, operators, getters, calls as well as fields and constants with initializers.
- Removed the any type. With return type inference its usefulness has become even more limited, and proper implementation of the any type is expected to be complicated, thus not worth the effort. (this may be revisited later on, as "any" remains a reserved keyword)
- Fixed compilation of throw as panic expressions in lambda function bodies
- Moved name from FunctionalMember to MethodMember, where it makes more sense
- Each method (or functional) is now also aware of the member that it overrides
- Fixed a bunch of bugs in java source compilation
- Added panic expressions
- Fixed super constructor calls
- Continued work on variants & match expressions
- Fixed NPE in PartialTypeExpression
- Fixed duplicate compilation
- Removed some redundant types
- Moved scopes to CodeModel and removed Linker
- Added const members and expression support for them
- Added statement transformation (can be used by annotations)
- Refactored some formatting things to be reusable for source code translation targets
- Removed generic compare
- Rewrote the way builtins are handled and implemented nearly all operations for all supported basic / builtin types
- Added java source code compilation
- Added throw expression, allowing a throw to be formulated as expression (handy inside matches)
Stan Hebben