New gc and better error reporting

Release notes

• Added a new mark-sweep garbage collector
• Added a new built-in-constant _প্ল্যাটফর্ম, this constant will expand to current os name

  Possible _প্ল্যাটফর্ম values are

  • "linux"
  • "macos"
  • "ios"
  • "freebsd"
  • "dragonfly"
  • "netbsd"
  • "openbsd"
  • "solaris"
  • "android"
  • "windows"
• Added better error reporting. Error now shows line number and module name
• Fixed a bug with return statement in loop
• Lexer now reports lexical analysis error
• Fixed a bug in lexer where \t was causing infinite loop

Added new built in functions and constant

Release notes

• Add support for recursive function call
• Some errors are now more descriptive
• Fixed a bug where module was imported partially
• Fixed a bug where line number in error would be wrong during parsing
• Fixed a bug in _দেখাও statement when printing string
• Fixed some bugs in Pakhi runner
• Added new docs and example program
• Added 17 new built-in functions and 1 new built-in constant

New builtin functions and constants list

• _ডাইরেক্টরি
• _রিড-লাইন()
• _স্ট্রিং(মান)
• _সংখ্যা(মান)
• _লিস্ট-পুশ(লিস্ট, মান)
• _লিস্ট-পুশ(লিস্ট, ইন্ডেক্স, মান)
• _লিস্ট-পপ(লিস্ট)
• _লিস্ট-পপ(লিস্ট, ইন্ডেক্স)
• _লিস্ট-লেন(লিস্ট)
• _এরর("এরর মেসেজ")
• _স্ট্রিং-স্প্লিট(string, split-by)
• _স্ট্রিং-জয়েন(list-of-string, join-by)
• _টাইপ(value)
• _রিড-ফাইল("ফাইল-প্যাথ")
• _রাইট-ফাইল("ফাইল-প্যাথ", "কন্টেন্ট")
• _ডিলিট-ফাইল("ফাইল-প্যাথ", "কন্টেন্ট")
• _নতুন-ডাইরেক্টরি("ডাইরেক্টরি-প্যাথ")
• _রিড-ডাইরেক্টরি("ডাইরেক্টরি-প্যাথ")
• _ডিলিট-ডাইরেক্টরি("ডাইরেক্টরি-প্যাথ")
• _ফাইল-নাকি-ডাইরেক্টরি("প্যাথ")

New module system

Release notes

• Pakhi now includes a module system for modular programming. Split a pakhi program into separate files and import each module with new module import and use syntax.
  
  Module import syntax: মডিউল মডিউল-নাম = "মডিউল-পাথ";
  
  Module use syntax: মডিউল-নাম/মডিউলের-ফাংশন();

Comment with comment block

Release notes

• Added single line or multi-line comment with comment block # this is a comment in pakhi #

Pakhi runner bug fix

Release notes

• Fixed random newline bug in Pakhi Runner output text area
• Renamed Pakhi output viewer program to Pakhi Runner to avoid confusion

New datatype record added

Release notes

• Record is a hash-table like datatype build into the language
• Multi dimensional Indexing is now possible with both list and record
• Array is now renamed to list

Pakhi runner bug fix

Release notes

• Fixed a bug where Pakhi runner wasn't properly writing user input to pakhi process

New Pakhi runner added and simplified installation process

Release notes

• Pakhi runner included to properly show bangla text. Running program by Pakhi runner is recommended.
• Added new built-in function _রিড-লাইন() to read from stdin.

Added built in function for array manipulation

Release notes

• Add new element to end of a list with _লিস্ট-পুশ(লিস্ট, মান)
• Add new element at specific index _লিস্ট-পুশ(লিস্ট, ইন্ডেক্স, মান)
• Remove last element from list with _লিস্ট-পপ(লিস্ট)
• Remove element at specific index with _লিস্ট-পপ(লিস্ট, ২)

New data type added

Release notes

• Added new array data type