* v0.4.0
- Generate rudimentary DWARF debugging information. GDB is now much
more usable for debugging Carth. Can now view stacktraces with
source locations and see where in the source we are when running
~gdb~ with ~-tui~. Can also step source line-by-line, although
this is not completely practical as we don't have sequential
statements but rather trees of expressions.
- Add subcommand `version`, which simply prints the package version
and the commit of the particular build.
* v0.3.1 <2020-01-10>
Pattern match on strings and uninhabited types
- String literals may be used as patterns, which generates to
string-equality tests with the matchee.
- Uninhabited types may be pattern matched on, which is absurd and
can be used to imply anything.
- Character literals are removed, as there is not actually any good
canonical definition of what a character should be. Is it a
codepoint? An ASCII byte? A grapheme cluster? To avoid ambiguity
and possible confusion I simply removed it completely.
- ~undefined~ now panics instead of recursing until stack-overflow.
- Various updates to the standard library.
- Environment variables of library path to search for core in, and
module path to search for modules in are now read at runtime
instead of when Carth is compiled. This is more dynamic, and will
probably play better with Guix in the future.
- Change license to AGPL version 3 *or later*
* v0.3.0 <2020-01-07>
Make runnable on others systems & impl C calling convention
** Make runnable on others systems
Remove hardcoded paths & make the build procedure more general with
a Makefile with configurable variables. Now anyone can simple clone
the repo and run ~make install~ to get a properly built and working
~carth~!
** Add basic import system
Very rudimentary. Not much more fancy than C-style copy-paste
~include~.
E.g. ~(import std)~ where ~std.carth~ or ~std.org~ is either in the
same directory as the file being compiled, or in the global module
directory, which is set when compiling Carth and defaults to
~~/.carth/mod~.
** Reimplement foreign-core lib in Rust
Also add a bunch of functions to it, like ~-str-append~,
~display-inline~, ~add-int~, ~-panic~, and more.
** Link with foreign definitions using the ~extern~ special form
E.g. ~(extern -panic (Fun Str Unit))~
** Implement C calling convention
Carth functions now follow the C calling convention, passing things
by reference and returning via register when appropriate,
etc. Interfacing with foreign C/Rust/etc code is now almost trivial!
According to ABI, bools are now ~i8~ instead of ~i1~.
** Remove interpreter
Not much point in keeping it, since it's not compatible with FFI
as-is. Maybe we'll reimplement it based on LLVM JIT at some point.
** Allow irrefutable patterns as function parameters
E.g. ~(define (fst (Pair a _)) a)~
** Add more primitive integral types
~Nat8~, ~Nat16~, ~Nat32~, ~Nat~, ~Int8~, ~Int16~, ~Int32~.
** Add ~Box~
Like the old ~Ptr~, but smarter. Also add the special form ~box~
put a value on the heap, and ~deref~ to dereference a box.
Also allow ~Box~ as a special kind of destructor in patterns. Works
as you'd intuitively expect, and dereferences behind the scenes.
** Add some builtin datatypes
In Carth syntax:
#+BEGIN_SRC carth
(type (Array a) (Array (Box a) Nat))
(type Str (Str (Array Nat8)))
(type (Pair a b) (Pair a b))
#+END_SRC
** Generate strings as newly added datatype ~Str~
** Scale datatype tag size by the number of variants
- 1 variant => no tag,
- 1 to 256 variants => 8-bit tag,
- 257 to 65536 variants => 16-bit tag,
- etc.
** Check that datatype definitions are not recursive without indirection
** Allow wildcards in patterns
They were treated as variables of name ~_~ before, but duplicate
variable pattern bindings are not allowed!
** Allow integer and boolean literals in patterns
** Generated better and more readable LLVM
- More readable name-mangling.
- Perform beta-reduction.
- Other minor improvements that add up!
** Rename the user-defined entry-point function ~main~ to ~start~
Otherwise we have two ~main~:s, and it got messy. Now the
codegenerator generates an "outer" ~main~ which does some stuff,
and the user defines ~start~.
** Remove ~tail~ modifiers in codegen
I thought just marking a call as ~tail~ would do no harm if the
call was not in tail recursion, but it did!
** Implement ~sizeof~ ourselves!
The previous method that ran in the ~EncodeAST~ monad was messy and
stopped working when I needed ~mfix~ for a cyclic binding.
** Verify LLVM module before compiling to catch more errors
** No longer allow square brackets in place of parentheses
** Various bugfixes
* v0.0.2 <2019-10-30>
Trying out releases -- this is the first one, more or
less. Everything has been in such heavy development until now (and
still is really, but it has calmed down slightly), so this feels
like the first appropriate moment to make a release.
Nothing is ready to use yet, of course, but many of the core
components are here. We have parsing with megaparsec, Hindley-Milner
typechecking, algebraic datatype definitions and pattern matching
with exhaustiveness and redundancy checking, closures,
interpretation, and LLVM code generation.
Next up is modules, typeclasses, etc etc.