0.11.0

This release focused on bug fixes, although there are some new language features.

Language Features

Regular Expression Literal #250

Mint now supports regular expression literals:

Regexp.match("abbc", /ab+c/i) == true

Open Modules #265

Modules now can be defined in multiple places allowing to define constants and functions.

module Greeter {
  fun greet (name : String) {
    "Hello #{name}!"
  }
}

module Greeter {
  fun greetPolitely (name : String) {
    "Have a nice day Mr. #{name}!"
  }
}

This is mostly useful if you want to extend a module in the standard library (like Array).

Or operator

Added the or operator as an alias to Maybe.withDefault:

Maybe.withDefault("Hello", Maybe::Just("Value")) /* "Value" */
Maybe.withDefault("Hello", Maybe::Nothing)       /* "Hello" */

Maybe::Just("Value") or "Hello" /* "Value" */
Maybe::Nothing or "Hello"       /* "Hello" */

[] access on tuples

It is now possible to use [] on tuples:

{"Name", "Joe"}[0] == "Name"

Only literal numbers are valid since it's the only way we can only determine the type.

Formatter

• Format the type signature of the inline JavaScript if given.
• Format the type signature of an array literal if given.

Housekeeping

• Moved the CI from Travis to Github actions.

Standard Library

• #288 - Added API wrapper for DataTransfer and added dataTransfer to Html.Event.
• Added return types to all functions @s0kil
• Added Array.uniq

Minor changes / fixes

• Fixed compiling of calls when the expression is an anonymous function.
• Fixed compiling of referenced html elements.
• Compile empty HTML fragments as nil.

Fixed issues

• #249 #319 - Disallow referencing other entities from the same top level entity in the default value of a state or property.
• #277 - Added clean command to delete compiler and package artifacts @s0kil
• #278 - Format code from STDIN if --stdin flag is passed @s0kil
• #302 - Added error message for ambiguous pipe operators
• #305 - Allow parsing string literals in css definitions
• #317 - Throw error when record does not have a record definition @s0kil
• #320 - Set manifest.json as relative path when --relative flag is set @s0kil
• #326 - Refactor encoding to be explicit
• #327 - Confusing error when trying to add styles to custom components @matthewmcgarvey
• #330 - Make sure inlined variable names are not conflicting with generated ones
• #332 - Add the record type as the last parameter in record constructor functions
• #338 - Allow trailing comment in record definitions.
• #339 - Better error message for NextCallStateTypeMismatch @s0kil
• #341 - Update documentation viewer to handle inferred types @s0kil
• #349 - Allow prefixing CSS classes using mint.json