
Change Log
Sep 05
- Begin work on Java version of Fan parser
- Compiler emits straight to Java bytecode or .NET IL
- Basic expr compilation
- Basic class, method support
Oct 05
- Original jblock and nblock native method design
- Methods
- Fields
- Type checking
- Method argument overloading (since removed)
- New operator (since removed)
- If, throw statements
- Class aliasing (original Java/.NET integration strategy)
Nov 05
- Casting
- Primitive operators and auto-boxing (since removed)
- String concat, unary operators, assignment operators
- Local variables
Dec 05
- Redesign to use pure OO (everything boxed)
- Type inference for locals
- Duration literals
- Shortcut operator overloading
- Static initializers
- Comparision operators
- Constructors
Jan 06
- Generic types
- Support for
is
andas
operators - Type literals
- Method parameter defaults
- Unit test harness
Feb 06
- Refactor to use fcode intermediate format
- Refactor local variables for .NET emit
- Fandoc comments
Mar 06
- Native methods
- Superclass constructor chaining
- Closures
- I/O, List, and Map APIs
- Mixins
Apr 06
- Tomcat integration
- Field accessors
- Enums
- Charset I/O support
May 06
- Refactor Err to use Fan type system
- Math methods for Int, Float
- Switch statement
- New character methods for Int, Str
Jun 06
- Dynamic
->
call operator - Try/catch blocks
- Initial web API
- String interpolation
- CompareNull, CompareNotNull opcodes
- Tokenizer rewritten in Fan
Jul 06
- Parser rewritten in Fan
- Version API
- Using/import statements
- Facets
- Uri API, refactor File to use Uri
- Stub Time API
Aug 06
- Fan compiler does first end-to-end compile
- Fanp disassembler ported from Java to Fan
- Zip API
Sep 06
- First Fandoc goes live on fandev.org
- Precompiled Java bytecode mode
Oct 06
- Props file and Sys.env
- Constant folding in compiler
- Compiler can finally compile itself!
Nov 06
- Deprecate DupDown (dup_x1) opcode
- Nested closure support
- List.dup(), Map.dup()
- Not a statement checking
- Protection scope checking
Dec 06
- CLR protected region support
- Try finally blocks
- Virtual fields (mixins support abstract fields)
- Mixin reflection
- Covariant return types
- Change inheritance syntax to use colon
- Named super calls
- Const fields and const classes
- Launcher C++ executables for Win32
- Transition from Ruby build scripts to Fan build scripts
Build 1.0.1 (1 Jan 07)
- First official build
- Both old Ruby build scripts and new Fan build scripts
Build 1.0.2 (1 Jan 07)
- New pod format for pod meta-data and facets
Build 1.0.3 (8 Jan 07)
- Fan launcher options (--v and --D)
- Refactor Sys methods into respective classes
- Field storage
@
operator - Storage fcode flag
Build 1.0.4 (14 Jan 07)
- Virtual fields
- Move field accessor generation to Parser
- Fix closures in field accessor methods
- Fix multiple static initializer closures and scoping
- Optimize if(true), if(false)
- Fix indirect mixin router emitting
Build 1.0.5 (21 Jan 07)
- Use () operator on sys::Methods as callx() shortcut
- Curried methods
- Use soft references for pod cache
- InStream, OutStream.charset changed to abstract field
- Float constants changed to static const fields
- Fan.exe now uses Fan compiler to run scripts
Build 1.0.6 (5 Feb 07)
- Make sys::Err const
- Obj.isImmutable, List.toImmutable, Map.toImmutable
- Slot.isConst for thread-safe methods
- Thread API
Build 1.0.7 (12 May 07)
- New inet pod
- IpAddress, TcpSocket, TcpServerSocket
- Str.equalsIgnoreCase, compareIgnoreCase, any, all
- Time.now with tolerance
- Time.parseHttp, formatHttp
- InStream.readLine max parameter
- Map cannot have null keys
- Map.caseInsensitive
- New fandoc pod to parse fandoc into DOM
- New docCompiler pod to generate HTML documentation
- Doc chapters: docIntro::Overview, docLang::Literal
- .NET runtime support for most of sysTest
Build 1.0.8 (30 Jun 07)
- Add doc target to buildall script
- Add StrBuf.remove, buff up test suite
- DocLang chapters: Expressions, Statements, Exceptions, TypeSystem, CompilationUnits, Fields, Methods
- InStream peek, peekChar, readStrToken
- Changes to web API
- New wisp pod with simple web server implementation
Build 1.0.9 (1 Jul 07)
- Add: List.containsAll
- Remove: Type.sourceFile, Type.lineNumber, Slot.lineNumber
- Hidden: Field.getter, Field.setter
- Dynamic types
- Dynamic types emitter for subclass with type per instance
- Dynamic fields
- New sql pod using JDBC
- New chapters: docLang::DynamicTypes, docLib::Sql
Build 1.0.10 (7 Jul 07)
- Remove all the old Java based compiler code
- Change Int intern to -256 to 1024
- Major refactoring of compiler - fcode now implements namespace mixins
- Ability to compile against any arbitrary dependsDir
Build 1.0.11 (10 Jul 07)
- Java runtime dependency checking
- Compiler dependency checking
- MethodParam->Param, fieldField->of, paramType->of, returnType->returns
- Split Func out of Method
Build 1.0.12 (17 Jul 07)
- InStream.eachLine
- Covariant field overrides of methods
Build 1.0.13 (4 Aug 07)
- Indexed assignment expressions: x[y] += z
- Buf no longer mixins InStream and OutStream
- InStream and OutStream changed from mixins to classes
- Fix case insensitive Map equality/hash
- FileWeblet with ETag and Last-Modified support
- Rewrite Uri with custom parser
- Allow escape sequence in Uri literals
- Uri decoding/encoding
- Fix maxLocals, maxStack in emitter
Build 1.0.14 (12 Aug 07)
- Add maxStack to fcode format
Build 1.0.15 (5 Sep 07)
- Serialization support
- Simple literals
- With-blocks
- Refactor fcode attributes
- New facet design
Build 1.0.16 (11 Sep 07)
- Facets completed
- Override implies virtual fix
- Roll fcode version to support method var attributes
Build 1.0.17 (5 Nov 07)
- Obj auto-casts to anything
- Use serialization for thread messaging when not immutable
- Dynamic methods
- Buf: hex, base64, digest support
- TimeZone database and buildtz script for importing Olsen database
- Rename Time -> DateTime
- DateTime ticks to date/time calculations
- Locale API
- Rename parse -> fromStr
Build 1.0.18 (13 Dec 07)
- Int, Str, Month, Weekday, DateTime localization methods
- DateTime string encoding/decoding
- Resource and MemResource APIs
- Support final override modifiers
- Int.random
- Pretty stack traces
- Tons of new documentation
Build 1.0.19 (30 Dec 07)
- Basic fand bootstrap
- Tweaks to InStream.readObj
- Logging APIs
- File now subclasses Resource
- WebService pipeline
- Refactor Resource implementation
- SysResources
- Sys.appDir
- Raw string literals
- Regex regular expression API
- Optimize pod/type lazy loading
- Pod level user defined facets
- Type database
Build 1.0.20 (13 Jan 08)
- Fan shell
- Type literal support in serialization syntax
- More docs (docTools, docIntro)
- Rework build scripts to use facets
Build 1.0.21 (10 Mar 08)
- Haven ORM engine
- Type immutability
- Doc meta-data, doc default expressions
- File copyTo, copyInto, moveTo, moveInto, rename, open, mmap
- Buf redesign -> MemBuf, FileBuf, MmapBuf
- Redesign Resource -> Namespace
- Uri pathOnly, relToAuth, plusName, tail -> slice, minus -> relTo
- Allow const field set in ctor with-block
- Rename test pods: testSys, testNatives, testCompiler
- Move Windows executables from bin/win/ to bin/
- Sys.compile and script caching
- Coverage for .NET sysTests 364/375 - 97%
Build 1.0.22 (30 Mar 08)
- web::Cookie support
- WebSession support
- Once methods
- Func.curry
- Slot, Field, and Method are now const
- Make parameter names optional in function signatures
- New Cookbook chapters: Reflection
- Unix launcher scripts
Build 1.0.23 (14 Apr 08)
- Weekday, Month increment/decrement
- Enhance webapp steps
- File support for checkSlash
- New docs: Namespaces, Fandoc, Web, WebApp, Widget, Maps
- LogStep for W3C extended log format
- Haven enhancements - prepared statements
- Duration boot, uptime, toLocale
- Sys.diagnostics (mem, threads, classes)
- Uri queryPlus and escaping fixes
Build 1.0.24 (14 Apr 08)
- Cleanup old ruby scripts
- Cleanup docs
Build 1.0.25 (16 Apr 08)
- Fix Unix build problems
- Sys.env is now case insensitive map
- File.pathSep
- Skip .NET compiles if not on Windows
Build 1.0.26 (26 Apr 08)
- Require f suffix for float literals
- Decimal type and literal syntax
- Decimal API enhancements: InStream, OutStream, Num, Str
- This return types
- Update APIs to use return This return
- Fix Firefox3 form handling
- Allow this and super keywords in string interpolation
- Fix various fandoc bugs seen on discussion forum
Build 1.0.27 (28 May 08)
- Fix this return for mixins
- Sanity check for bootstrap build
- sys::MimeType, Uri.mimeType, File.mimeType
- New email pod for MIME and SMTP support
- Charset.make => fromStr (now serializable simple)
- Thread.isService, findService
- Fix fandoc blockquotes
- Native fields
- Allow non-storage fields in const class
- Fix constructor, field init ordering
- Allow single statement for try, catch, finally
- Log.setLevel() => Log.modified
- File.setModified() => File.modified
Build 1.0.28 (25 Jun 08)
- Fix bug in threading flow control
- Map.def
- Update unix scripts to use bash
- Fix timezone on unix when GMT offset
- Require call open paren on same line
- With-blocks support implicit call to add
- Support @collection facet in readObj and writeObj
- C# fixes including filtered catch blocks
- Launcher exe and bash support for lib/java/ext
- Fix closures inside once methods
- Improved support for calling main
- Rename some of the shortcut operators methods
- New fwt pod which wraps SWT
Build 1.0.29 (18 Jul 08)
- New isnot operator
- New null convenience operators: ?: ?. ?->
- New FWT widgets: WebBrowser, Text, InsetPane, SashPane
- FWT graphics: Pen, Brush, Gradient
- FWT serialization support
- New icons pod
- Web view priorities
- Require indexing open bracket on same line
- Allow |->Int| to fit |->Void|
- Sys.idHash
- List.findIndex, indexSame, containsSame, containsAllSame, removeSame
- Pod.log, Type.log
- Str.split(Str) => Str.split(Int,Bool)
- Compiler implicitly generates toImmutable for const List/Map/Type fields
Build 1.0.30 (30 Jul 08)
- Short construction call syntax Type(args)
- FWT widgets: Combo, Tree, RichText
- fwt::Command
- GridPane enhanced, see tab in demo
- File.listDirs, listFiles, walk, osRoots
- Expand auto-cast to include any assignable type
- Weblet.doGet,doPost,... => Weblet.onGet,onPost,...
- webapp::Widget API changes
- Add field default to fandoc
- Change Uri.name to return "" instead of null
- Rework sample code apps/ to examples/
- List.binarySearch
- New type literal syntax: Type#
- Slot literals: Type#slot or #slot