This release delivers a few improvements mainly concerning syntax highlighting, and addresses some inconsistencies between the implementation and the documentation.

BREAKING CHANGES

• Actually removed the invoke symbol and * sigil that were supposed to be removed in v0.44.0 but didn’t.
• Removed Dockerfile and Notepad++ highlighter (no longer maintained).
• When defining or deleting a sigil, a symbol with the same name is now defined/deleted as well.
• Removed obsolete aliases io.read and io.write.

Fixes and Improvements

• Implemented define-sigil (was documented but not actually implemented).
• Reviewed documentation making sure that documented operators match with implementation.
• The help symbol now correctly displays help for namespaced symbols.
• Enhanced the tokenizer symbol to provide additional information for symbols.
• Enhanced min shell highlighting to support dot notation, sigils, autopop, global symbols.
• Enhanced Vim syntax file to support latest constructs.

This is by far the release with most breaking changes in a long time. The ideas behind all this are * Leveraging the new dot notation to access symbols in modules * Avoid polluting global scope with too many imported symbols * Avoid using prefixed symbols like fread (now fs.read) or dget (now dict.get) to avoid collisions in the global scope

The good news is… you can run min run min-upgrade <folder> to migrate all your code automatically!

BREAKING CHANGES

• All symbols defined in the num module have been moved to the global module.
• All symbols defined in the logic module have been moved to the global module.
• All symbols defined in the str module have been moved to the global module.
• All symbols defined in the seq module have been moved to the global module.
• Removed lambdabind (use lambda-bind instead).
• The stack module is no longer imported.
• stack module: removed symbol id.
• stack module: renamed clear-stack to clear.
• stack module: removed clearstack (use stack.clear instead).
• stack module: renamed get-stack to get.
• stack module: removed getstack (use stack.get instead).
• stack module: renamed set-stack to set.
• stack module: removed setstack (use stack.set instead).
• The io module is no longer imported.
• io module: renamed fwrite and write to fs.write
• io module: renamed fread and read to fs.read
• io module: renamed fappend to fs.append
• io module: moved print to the global module.
• io module: removed newline (use "" puts! instead).
• The fs module is no longer imported.
• fs module: renamed fperms to fs.permissions
• fs module: renamed fsize to fs.size
• fs module: renamed fstats to fs.stats
• fs module: renamed ftype to fs.type
• The time module is no longer imported.
• time module: renamed tformat to time.format
• time module: renamed timeinfo to time.info
• time module: renamed timestamp to time.stamp
• The dict module is no longer imported.
• dict module: renamed dhas? to dict.has?
• dict module: renamed dget to dict.get
• dict module: renamed dget-raw to dict.get-raw
• dict module: renamed dset to dict.set
• dict module: renamed dset-sym to dict.set-sym
• dict module: renamed ddel to dict.del
• dict module: renamed dkeys to dict.keys
• dict module: renamed dvalues to dict.values
• dict module: renamed dpairs to dict.pairs
• dict module: renamed ddup to dict.dup
• dict module: renamed dpick to dict.pick
• dict module: renamed dtype to dict.type
• The sys module is no longer imported.
• The dstore module has been renamed to store, and is no longer imported.
• store module: renamed dsinit to store.init
• store module: renamed dsget to store.get
• store module: renamed dshas? to store.has?
• store module: renamed dsput to store.put
• store module: renamed dspost to store.post
• store module: renamed dsdelete to store.delete
• store module: renamed dsquery to store.query
• store module: renamed dswrite to store.write
• store module: renamed dsread to store.read
• The crypto module is no longer imported.
• The math module is no longer imported.
• math module: renamed r2g to math.r2d
• The net module is no longer imported.
• The http module is no longer imported.
• The xml module is no longer imported.
• xml module: renamed xcomment to xml.comment
• xml module: renamed xentity to xml.entity
• xml module: renamed xtext to xml.text
• xml module: renamed xentity2utf8 to xml.entity2utf8
• xml module: renamed xcdata to xml.cdata
• xml module: renamed xescape to xml.escape
• xml module: renamed xelement to xml.element
• xml module: renamed xquery to xml.query
• xml module: renamed xqueryall to xml.query-all
• The prompt symbol is no longer unsealed.

Fixes and Improvements

• Upgraded OpenSSL to v3.3.2.

This minor release brings a lot of refactoring and a few breaking changes related to sigils and introduces a new concept of dot notation for symbols.

In previous releases, it was possible to use the invoke symbol (and the * sigil) to access members of a dictionary or modules, e.g. *crypto/encode to access the crypto.encode symbol of the crypto Module module. This was fine, but a little bit verbose… plus this didn’t work for setting values, for example.

As of this release, you can no longer use . in symbols, because that will be used as a namespace separator, so you’ll be able to do things like this:

BREAKING CHANGES

• User-defined symbols can no longer contain dots (.).
• The symbol invoke and the * sigil have been removed in favor of symbol dot notation.
• The . and .. symbols have been renamed to pwd and parent-dir respectively.
• The ! symbol has been removed; use system instead.
• The ! sigil has been removed; use system instead.
• The & symbol has been removed; use run instead.
• The & sigil has been removed; use run instead.
• The / sigil has been removed; use dget or symbol dot notation instead.
• The % sigil has been removed; use dset or symbol dot notation instead.
• The > sigil has been removed; use save-symbol innstead.
• The < sigil has been removed; use load-symbol innstead.
• Moved get-env, put-env, $ symbol and $ sigil from sys to global module.

New Features

• It is now possible to access dictionary (and module) keys (even nested) via dot notation. This replaces the invoke symbol.
• Added shell auto-completion for symbols using dot notation
• Added a new color symbol to the io module to enable/disable terminal color output.
• Added a new from-html symbol to the xml module to parse HTML documents and fragments.
• Added a new xentity2utf8 symbol to the xml module to convert an XML entity to its corresponding UTF-8 string.
• Added a new xescape symbol to the xml module to convert special XML characters into the corresponding XML entities.

Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed tokenize symbol (wasn’t processing commands correctly)

This is a small patch release to address an issue related to Nimble metadata and update OpenSSL.

Fixes and Improvements

• Upgraded OpenSSL to version 3.3.0.
• Nimble metadata are now specified statically in the min.nimble file (Fixes #193).
• Minor documentation fixes.

This is minor release introduces a breaking change, but also provides a way to automatically migrate your code using the min-upgrade managed module.

BREAKING CHANGES

• Renamed ROOT symbol to global. Also the built-in lang module is now called global.

New Features

• Upgraded OpenSSL to v3.2.0
• Added the min run <mmm> command to (download, install globally, and) execute the main symbol of the the specified managed module. For example this functionality can be used to upgrade .min files using the min-upgrade managed module.
• mmm: It is now possible to install, uninstall, and update modules by specifying them via <name>@<version>.
• mmm: The version is now optional when installing, uninstalling, and updating modules (the name of the HEAD branch will be used, e.g. “master” or “main”, typically).

Fixes and Improvements

• Added check to prevent installing local managed modules in the HOME directory or $HOME/mmm.
• Changed tokenize symbol so that it returns the full token, including delimiters (for strings and comments).
• Fixed regression in min compile command introduced in the previews version due to parses changes.