Hamler 0.2 Released

Version 0.2

Release Date: 2020-08-06

Language/Libraries

Highlights:

• Add Control lib including Control.Application, Control.Behaviour, Control.Distributed, Control.Process. Examples of these lib are illustrated in the documentation.

  • Control.Behaviour implements corresponding generic behaviours in Erlang, including gen_server, genEvent and genStatem. Supervisor Behaviours are also implemented.
  • Control.Application implements OTP application
  • Control.Distributed implements Erlang distributed
  • Control.Process implements Erlang process API

• Add Database lib

  • ETS
  • DETS
  • Mnesia

• Add Simplified Hamler-version QuickCheck lib

Enhancements:

• Add Operators (>>>) (<<<) for functions and add some operators for binaries
• Add 'Data.Term' datatype
• Add VM module
• Add FilePath module
• Add Data.Foldable
• Add Digraph and Array modules
• Add printf function

Exploratory Enhancements:

• Add an Network lib
• Add an Logger lib

Bug Fixes:

• Fix FFI with IO Effect
• Fix wrongly defined IO monad

Compiler

Enhancements:

• Add annotation to core Erlang AST, and rewrite parser and pretty-printer
• Add new atom syntax
• Add new receive syntax, similar to receive in Erlang, the initial version has some layout problem which is fixed.
• Complete record syntax and remove old record syntax
• Add an option "-e -s" for "hamler repl" to specify the ebin directory
• Add support for multi ebin directories when use "hamler repl"
• Add new error type
• Add check for functions with duplicate names
• Some optimization

Bug Fixes:

• Fix display warning error
• Fix compile time completeness warning

Documentation/Examples:

• Add Demo
• Add Chapter 10 Message Passing Concurrency, 11 OTP Behaviours, 12 Node and Distrubuted Erlang in guides