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Adept Programming Language 2.5

Additions from Adept 2.6 are still in the progress of being fully documented

Table of Contents:

• Command Line Usage
• Data Types
• Expressions
• Statements
• Functions
• Structures
• Unions
• Enums
• Aliases
• Function Aliases
• Namespaces
• Methods
• Expression Definitions
• Global Variables
• Memory Management
• Conditionals
• File Imports
• Function Pointers
• Pragma Directives
• Preprocessor
• Type Casting
• Comments
• Scope Rules
• Intrinsic Procedures
• Runtime Type Information
• Foreign Function Interface
• Package Manager
• Standard Library

Changes since Adept 2.4

Language:

• Removed using namespace
• Now supports new macOS M1 chip arm64 architecture
• Added support for anonymous structs/unions
• Added support for anonymous structs/unions as unnamed fields
• Added typenameof $T expression
• Added embed "filename.txt" expression
• Added ability to rename idx in repeat loops via using my_idx
• Added null ubyte literal '\0'ub
• Added support for chained methods as statements - thing1().thing2().thing3()
• Completed runtime type information for complex composite types
• Added new transcendent variables __compiler_major__, __compiler_minor__, __compiler_release__, and __compiler_version_name__
• Changed __compiler_version__ to be a number instead of a string (__compiler_version_name__ now exists for string version)
• Added alignof Type expression
• Package manager now included
• Lots of bug fixes

Standard Library:

• Fixed an issue with 2.x/captain.adept on HDPI displays. Solution was back-ported to earlier versions
• Fixed an issue in 2.4/aabb.adept
• Added more math definitions in 2.5/cmath.adept
• Changed 2.5/* to use new typenameof $T expression instead of RTTI when possible
• Added unix/sys/time.adept
• Added new helper functions in 2.5/captain.adept
• Added new method clone(this *<*$P> List) <*$P> List in 2.5/List.adept
• Added basic JSON parser 2.5/JSON.adept
• Added more functionality for 2.5/Matrix4f.adept and 2.5/Vector3f.adept
• Fixed an issue in 2.x/Optional.adept
• Added stuff to stb/image.adept
• Added unique pointer type 2.5/Unique.adept
• Added generic grid data-structure 2.5/Grid.adept
• Added new user utility functions for 2.5/captain.adept
• Added native libraries for Mach-O arm64
• Added experimental WebAssembly target
• Added new method join(this *<String> List) String to 2.5/parse.adept
• Added meta variables __arm64__, __x86_64__, and __wasm__
• Upgraded warning guard in sys/cfloat.adept

Notable changes from Adept 2.3 => Adept 2.4

• Added namespaces
• Added initializer lists
• Added __as__ management function
• Added ~> operator
• Added polycount variables $#N
• Added static variables
• Added alternative syntax choices
• Added better syntax for constant expressions
• Added ability to have scoped constant expressions
• Added new way to pass variadic arguments using VariadicArray
• Added function aliases
• Added --entry and pragma entry_point
• Added sizeof(value) expression
• Reduced size of resulting executable
• Made switch statement cases less picky
• Added built-in compile-checks for printf(String, args ...)
• Added simple unions
• Added polymorph that matches convertable types $~T of $T
• Added ability to use ++ and -- on floating point types
• Changed integer values of unspecified type to collapse to type long instead of int
• Added #define
• Added cross-compilation for Windows from MacOS
• Changed warnings to print code fragments
• Added --short-warnings and pragma short_warnings to disable code fragments for warnings
• Added #error and #warning
• Added -Werror and pragma warn_as_error to treat compiler warnings as errors
• Added null meta value
• Added --ignore-unused and pragma ignore_unused to ignore unused variable warnings
• Added prototype REPL
• Added exhaustive keyword to force switch statements to account for all values of an enum
• Added ability to specify default argument values
• Added .size field to AnyType types
• Added support for C-style variadic arguments via va_start, va_end, va_arg and va_copy
• Added __access__ management function
• Added __stdlib__ dynamic compile-time meta variable
• Added -std=2.5 and pragma default_stdlib to set default standard library
• Added import my_component syntax to import from the standard library
• Improved --version human friendliness
• Added --ignore-* compiler flags and pragma ignore_ pragma directives
• Improved compilation performance
• Improved error and warning message format
• Cross-Compilation from MacOS to Windows with --windows
• Fix some bugs