We're happy to announce a tiny feature update v0.6.7.

It has some smaller fixes and neat changes included, and brings Tokay more towards the next milestone, which is a heavier duty and still needs some time.

Changelog Tokay v0.6.7

Highlights of this feature release are

• feat: list_index()-function
• feat: min(), max(), sum() and avg() (#145)
• feat: Add builtin str_find
• feat: Adding list_clone() function
• feat: Implement explicit list_extend()
• feat: Improved for...in syntax
• feat: Improved Token prelude to match AsciiPunctuation first
• feat: Improving dict iteration & access
• fix: InlineList doesn't accept multi-line list definitions
• fix: Keyword<P> doesn't recognize '_'
• fix: list_iadd with void (#146)
• fix: loop-syntax should allow for "loop\n{..."
• fix: Op::MakeDict() creates reversed key order
• fix: Complex chained comparison compile into broken code
• fix: Disallow variable shadowing by constants
• fix: Enforce use of *-deref for assignments
• fix: Generic Self/self (#142)
• fix: Improve float repr & str representation
• fix: Improve inplace/(post|pre) syntax
• fix: object iadd call with standalone imutable
• fix+doc: docs for dict(), removed dict_push()
• perf: Improving VM Op::MakeDict and Op::MakeList
• refactor: ImlProgram compilation and finalization (#147)
• test: Adding test case for dict_clone()
• test: Split dict.tok testcases into separate files

Visual Studio Code Plugin (vscode-tokay)

For Visual Studio Code and OSS-Code, we're happy to announce a first release v0.0.2 of an official plugin which provides syntax highlighting for Tokay v0.6.7 programs.

• The plugin can be directly found and installed from the Visual Studio marketplace at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=phorward.vscode-tokay
• To install the plugin in Code-OSS, simply download the .VSX-file from https://github.com/tokay-lang/vscode-tokay

Support of any kind on this new tooling is highly appreciated!