ArkScript v4.7.0-1

[SuperFola]

Added

• new builtin to extract the bytes of a string: builtin__string:bytes
• new builtins builtin__time:asUTCDate and builtin__time:parseDate to convert a timestamp to a date, and parse a string date as a timestamp
• standard library
  • math:fromBase to convert a number from a given base to base 10
  • string:surrogate? and string:privateUse? to check if a Unicode character is in one of those planes
  • list:findAfter to search for an element in a list after a given index
  • list:findIf to search for an element in a list using a predicate
  • list:search to search for a set of contiguous elements in a list
  • list:minMax to get the minimum and maximum values of a list of numbers in a single call
  • list:sorted? to check if a list is sorted
  • list:lowerBound, list:upperBound
  • list:binarySearch
  • list:shiftLeft, list:shiftRight
  • datetime library
    • timezoneOffsets
    • utcOffsetMinutes
    • makeUTCTimestamp
    • timestamps: year0, year1970, year200
    • toUTCTimestamp
    • asUTCDate
    • plusSeconds, minusSeconds
    • plusMinutes, minusMinutes
    • plusHours, minusHours
    • plusDays, minusDays
    • plusWeeks, minusWeeks
    • plusMonths, minusMonths
    • plusYears, minusYears
    • atStartOfDay, atEndOfDay
    • today, yesterday, tomorrow
    • nextDay, previousDay
    • delta, asDelta
    • asSeconds
    • plusDelta, minusDelta
    • year, month, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond, dayOfWeek, dayOfYear
    • leapYear?
    • monthLength, yearLength
    • utcOffsetRepr
    • asISO8601
    • parse, parseAs
  • std.Colours
• new escape sequences: \0xx (octal escape sequences using 2 chars) and \xyz (hex escape sequences using 2 chars)

Changed

• math:toBase handles 0 correctly
• math:countDigits returns 1 for 0
• builtin__list:find can take an optional third argument, to specify at which index to start looking from

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This discussion was created from the release ArkScript v4.7.0-1.