ArkScript v4.5.0

Breaking changes

• removed list:permutationsWithReplacement (deprecated in 4.4.0)
• list:permutations now produces real permutations and not combinations (deprecated in 4.4.0)

Added

• added new macro $gensym, to generate a unique symbol identifier to use in macros
• append, concat, and pop can be used as values
• new ptr command for the debugger, printing the VM pointers (ip, pp, sp)
• compile time arity check when performing a tail call
• string:utf8len to compute the number of codepoints in a string
• new trace command for the debugger, printing the last executed instructions
• ability to build ArkScript statically via CMake using -DARK_STATIC=On

Changed

• all paths inside if should return a value, when used as an expression. If an else branch is missing, nil will be returned
• new compile time error when trying to use append!, concat!, pop!, @= and @@= as values
• arguments in tail calls are loaded by value and not by reference
• string:ord checks that it get only 1 utf8 character