Haxe 2.7.0

Change Log

• all : fixed completion support with --remap
• all : added macros, added --interp
• all : removed 'here' special identifier
• neko : fixed neko.Web.getParamsString() returning "null" instead of ""
• flash9 : fixed issue with @:bind
• flash9 : added some missing errors
• flash9 : fixed TypedDictionary.exists
• all : added @:build and @:autoBuild for enums and classes
• neko : Std.parseFloat now returns NaN with invalid string
• php: fixed Array.push must return the current length (issue 219)
• php: fixed EReg.replace (issue 194)
• php: FileSystem.readDirectory now skips '.' and '..' to be consistent with neko (issue 226)
• flash9 : add trace text on stage (always over current and subclips)
• flash9 : delay SWF initialization until it's added on stage and stageWidth > 0
• (this can be disabled with -D dontWaitStage)
• all : added haxe.Timer.measure
• all : added Lambda.indexOf and Lambda.concat
• all : no longer allow inline vars as metadata values
• neko : added getFieldsNames to neko.db.ResultSet (supported in Neko 1.8.2 mysql driver)
• all : added --macro and haxe.macro.Compiler
• all : allow macro type patches
• flash9 : changed --gen-hx-classes implementation
• now use 'haxe -swf-lib lib.swf --gen-hx-classes' instead
• flash9 : added @:getter and @:setter
• all : added @:require
• flash9 : moved vector utils functions from flash.Lib to flash.Vector
• flash9 : added support for FP 10.1 and 10.2
• flash9 : added @:meta(Meta(k="v")) support
• all : improved #if support (fixed ! precedence)
• all : lookup unqualified types in all package hierarchy and not only in current package
• flash : set default flash version to 10 (-swf9 deprecated, use -swf-version 8 for avm1)
• php : added --php-lib to allow to rename the destination path of the generated lib
• all : added --dead-code-elimination, removes unused functions from the output
• (beta feature could not make in the final release)
• all : added @:keep to prevent --dead-code-elimination of class/method
• flash9 : fixed issues with loading a haXe SWF (boot_XXXX class extends flash.Boot)
• all : allow to inline override methods (if the superclass method is not inlined already)
• all : fixed escape sequences in literal regular expressions
• flash9 : fixed Xml.setNodeValue
• all : removed -excluded, replaced by --macro excludeFile('filename')
• all : added --macro exclude('package') and --macro include('package')
• all : importing a typedef of an enum allow to access its constructors
• all : removed String.cca (replaced by StringTools.fastCodeAt + StringTools.isEOF)
• flash9 : fixed use of default values when null is passed for nullable basic types
• all : fixed issues with inlining and class/function type parameters
• all : big speedup for compiler internal completion
• all : added --macro keepClass('classname')
• flash9 : fixed Xml.nodeValue for comments (does not include <!--/-->)
• all : added named local functions (allow self-recursion)
• all : use left-assoc for (==,!=,>,>=,<,<=)(==,!=,>,>=,<,<=) (&&)(&&) and (||)(||)
• all : give prefix unary operators higher priority than ?:
• php : fixed XML parsing
• cpp : many fixes