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ViviFire.chm 164.2 KB

• Removes the BEGIN statement.
• Gives a preview of the new syntaxes for NEW and PROPERTY.
• Many other additions/changes that I can't remember.

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VF.exe 637 KB

• Adds new forms for Method and Function to be used in conjunction with traits intended to permit renaming imported names that might conflict, and also to change their visibility.
• Changes the keyword used by Sub from Does to Handles to reduce the amount of overloading of Does.
• Traits can now be better genericized.

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VF.exe 635.5 KB

• Changes the char literal. For example, both `A and `A` evaluate to 65, both ` ` and `SPC evaluate to 32.
• Improves the string literal, now permitting """Data Files"/"My Data.dat""", which would evaluate to "Data Files\My Data.dat" on Windows.
• Improves handling of malformed string literals.
• Reduces the character set for metacharacters and metastrings, which has the side effect of reducing the size of the EXE.

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VF.exe 679 KB

• Changes the type characters for most numeric types.
• Instead of representing the size in bytes, the number following % is now the size in bits: tiny%8, short%16, integer%32, long%64, huge%128.
  • You can now specify signed: tiny%s8, short%s16, integer%s32, long%s64, huge%s128
  • or unsigned: byte%u8, ushort%u16, uinteger%u32, ulong%u64, uhuge%u128
• Instead of representing the size in bytes, the number after # now represents the floating-point precision: single#1, double#2, quad#4.

ViviFire.chm 160.9 KB

• Mostly reflects the changes from above.

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VF.exe 668.5 KB

• Changes '@Deprecate name "message" to a directive
   @Deprecate message
• Improves errors for empty Begin and Enum declarations.

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VF.exe 668.5 KB

• Changes Property's "!" option to a "Does" clause.
• Changes the getter and setter syntax to use new keywords "Get" and "Set" instead of the (possibly) non-obvious user-defined labels.
• Changes the Unit statement's use of a hyphen for declaring SI units to a user-defined label inside parentheses.

ViviFire.chm 160.5 KB

• Mostly reflects the changes mentioned above.

VFTest.zip 15.2 KB

• Reflects the changes from above.

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Download the full package ~500 KB

• Still experimental. Currently does not include the test suite.

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ViviFire.chm 159.3 KB

• A lot of minor changes.

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VF.exe 667 KB

• For Each now accepts array literals.

  Code:

  For Each dog$ In {"Benji", "Lassie", "Rin Tin Tin"}     #out dog$;" says hello"$NL End For

• Improves error messages for malformed Select and Struct declarations.

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VF.exe 667.5 KB

• Classes can contain Event members.
• Begin declarations can use generics.
• Changes the syntax of traits from
   Trait name Is traitList
   to
   Trait name Does traitList

If you want to contribute, you can pull the code from GitHub.

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VF.exe 667 KB

• Makes #Base, #Null, and #Self true keywords.

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ViviFire.chm 158.2 KB

• Mostly adds more under "Declared Element Characteristics."

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VF.exe 667 KB

• Changes generic property syntax, moving the type list to after the property's name to be consistent with other statements.

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ViviFire.chm 153.3 KB

• Mostly cleanup to existing articles; in particular, the assignment operators.
• Flattens the Language Reference tree a bit.

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VF.exe 666 KB

• Adds a '@Deprecate pragma to mark declarations as deprecated. See the help article for more info.
• Adds inner classes, i.e. classes within classes.

ViviFire.chm 154 KB

• Mainly reflects the changes mentioned above.

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VF.exe 665 KB

• Changes the syntax for accessing methods and properties from whitespace to the dot (.).
• Changes the meaning of the exclamation point from method call to key access.
• See the example code below.

ViviFire.chm 151.4 KB

• Mainly reflects the changes mentioned above.

VFTest.zip 18 KB

• No longer needs to create a temp file.
• Now displays the error message that caused a test to fail.

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Example