Adept 2.4

Adept 2.4 has been released!

Now with better in-depth documentation! Available at https://github.com/AdeptLanguage/Adept/wiki

Changes since Adept 2.3

• 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=2.4 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

Adept 2.4 also supports backwards-compatibility with most programs written in Adept 2.0 through Adept 2.3.