Changelog

This page documents breaking changes and major features of major version releases

v0.14

Language

• support for generics added
• support for variable arguments in main removed
• const statements now have mandatory type annotation, but optional value
• mutual recursion possible within struct and enum scopes
• three builtin typeclasses added: Any, <empty>, and Valuable

API

• program.parameters accepts namespaced const names
• program.parameters acceps names prefixed with ? to avoid errors if parameter doesn't exist

v0.13

Language

• copy automatically defined on user structs and enum-variants
• variable arguments in main deprecated
• function optional arguments with default values
• function calls with named arguments

API

• helios.Int renamed to helios.HInt
• helios.HeliosString renamed to helios.HString
• helios.HeliosMap renamed to helios.HMap
• helios.List renamed to helios.HList
• program.changeParam() deprecated