beta 0.18.0

Changelog

Syntax

• « and » are now valid string delimiters
• Allow to nest multi-line comments
• Allow the use of NBSP and NNBSP as spaces

Changes

• list(list_value) now returns an unlinked copy of the original list
• Remove PROTECTED_VARS, which means that variables can now use builtin names as identifiers.
• Change repo image
• Under GNU/Linux and Unix, add an interactive history using readline. May not work with non-GNU/Linux systems.

Built-in functions

• Add path_exists(path) builtin function
• Add print_in_green(value) and print_in_green_ret(value) builtins functions
• Add miracle sort and panic sort

Fixes

• Better error messages
• Fix crashes in math.log
• Fix several overflow crashes
• Fix other crashes
• Fix some bugs, such as #18
• Fix a bug where values other than String and Number weren’t printed in input

Libs

• Add noug_version.version_list
• Add math.tau and math.sqrt_tau.

Technical

• Add more tests
• Rewrite argument handling in shell.py using argparse (arguments have changed, use (nougaro) -h to view the new arguments)
• (internal API) py2noug can now properly convert lists and tuples containing python values
• (internal API) py2noug can now properly convert dicts, under a list of [key, value] lists
• (internal API) add an alias is_noug_num to is_n_num function
• (internal API) add an alias is_tok_type to does_tok_type_exist function
• Moved config files to the right directory depending on the OS (such as ~/.config). More infos in the docstring of the src.conffiles file.
• Add a version_id. Incremented at least each new version. The current version_id is 3.

Calculator

• Now, the stack is kept at the end of a command. You can make computations using multiple commands, like in Unix’ dc.
  Note that if there is an error, the stack is left unchanged.
• Add logarithm
• Add a bunch of debugging commands (such as printi, prints, resets, rsi, …) and aliases for existing commands (such as quit).
• Add tau
• Better error messages
• Move the RPN examples from the greeter to the help, and add an example
• If debug is enabled (through debug.enable() in Nougaro), it now prints tokens

Pull requests

• rewrite arguments handling in shell with argparse by @jd-develop in #16
• Add SVG banner in the repository by @3fxcf9 in #17

New Contributors

• @3fxcf9 made their first contribution in #17

See the full code changes: 0.17.0-beta...0.18.0-beta