Alpha 0.02

Release notes:

alpha-0.02

• Synchronous program invocation for top level expressions
• Function literals with arg type hinting (::), but without type inference
• Zip operator, |:
• :ast, :type and :mem-stats built-in commands
• fst and snd built-in functions
• If they do not contain segments, filenames are first searched for in the $PATH
• Root spelled -, e.g. -/bin/cat
• Lists can be passed to classic Unix programs
• Proper list literal analysis, considering all elements and typing [] as 'a => ['a]
• Improvements relating to type unification and quantification
• let shadows previous declarations
• Many more improvements under the hood

Alpha 0.01

Release notes:

alpha-0.01

• Files, globs, strings, integers, lists and tuples.
• Function application, list concatenation.
• Basic polymorphism.
• Invocation for textstream programs (classic Unix)
• Some builtins: size, cat, lc (line count), sum, zipf.
• Output display for type names, files and directories, file lists, tuple lists (a.k.a. tables) and nested lists.
• A readline based REPL.