StormScript v1.0.0 Release Candidate 1

StormScript v1.0.0

What's New

• Use the $ symbol followed by a variable name inside of a string literal to concatenate that variable into the string
• for INT runs a for loop starting at 0 and ending on INT
• do is no longer required
• rewrote interpreter to use switch statements
• using enumerations to determine statements rather than string literal
• functions can be declared in any scope
• moved errors.sts from /usr/bin to /usr/share/stormscript
• Function arguments no longer require you to specify the name
• for PLACEHOLDER in LIST/STR creates a foreach loop
• randomrange and rand now uses Mersenne Twister generation rather than cpp rand() function
• added break for loops
• errors are now parsed before runtime
• modules are added to the file before runtime
• modules are now scoped
• def has been changed to a scope called init
• sockets can be created with socket name => "FAMILY", "127.0.0.1", "9999"

What's Fixed

• Removed snapcraft files
• Variables can be used in the filenames in the read and write commands
• StormScript doesn't mess up when if statements are nested
• boolean variables and literals now work in if statements
• Comparisons always work out to booleans, meaning that they are now interchangeable
• Random no longer generates integers outside of range
• Scoped variable inheritance now works, so variables defined inside of a scope are accessible to the scope and any child scopes
• Install script now uses all available processor cores
• packagerelease.sh now installs stormscript to run tests
• Better development documentation
• The | operator is now .
• scopes now work as a class, making development around scopes easier
• constructors now use the arrow operator (=>) to declare constructors
• using tabs instead of spaces

Release Candidate 1

• Fixed class members not working in comparison operations
• windows now has better support