NOVA v0.5.0

The fifth public release of NOVA.

NOVA v0.5 introduces the language's first control-flow system through conditional execution, block scope, and ternary expressions.

Programs can now execute different code paths based on runtime conditions while maintaining lexical scoping and runtime type safety.

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Highlights

• Conditional execution
• If statements
• Else statements
• Else-if chains
• Nested conditionals
• Ternary expressions
• Block scope
• Variable shadowing
• Parent scope resolution
• Unary minus

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Documentation

Complete language documentation:

• Language Specification

Runnable examples:

• Examples

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Compatibility

Fully backward compatible with:

• NOVA v0.1
• NOVA v0.2
• NOVA v0.3
• NOVA v0.4

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Next Release

Planned for v0.6:

• While loops
• Range loops
• Inclusive ranges
• Exclusive ranges
• Descending ranges
• Array iteration
• Nested loops
• Loop variables
• Loop scope
• break
• continue

These additions will complete NOVA's foundational control-flow system by introducing structured iteration and repeated execution over ranges and collections.