Haxe 3.0.0-rc.1

Change Log

• flash : updated player 11.4 api
• all : allowed named functions as r-value
• all : fixed using + overload usage
• all : allow any type constraint for type parameters
• all : make property type optional (when a initial value is set)
• all : Std.random(x) when x <= 0 is now always 0
• spod : added serialized data with SData
• all : Dispatcher will now throw DETooManyValues
• all : speed up neko compilation by using native compiler
• all : allow @:generic on functions
• all : allow constructing generic type parameters
• swf : added support for SWC files in -swf-lib
• macro : added Context.onTypeNotFound callback for unresolved types
• js : no JS embed as default (use -D embed-js instead)
• all : added abstract types (Int/Float/Bool/Void/Class/Enum/EnumValue)
• all : added --help-defines
• all : changed DCE with three modes : std(default), no and full
• all : Haxe3 packages changes (see http://haxe.org/manual/haxe3)
• all : Removed haxe.Int32, haxe.Firebug, haxe.TimerQueue
• all : added -D key=value and #if (key >= value) operations
• all : StringTools.htmlEscape/unescape nows handle "/" and '/'
• all : using and import must now appear before any type declaration in a file
• all : no longer create variable fields for pure getter/setter properties (unless @:isVar is used)
• all : use default get_prop/set_prop instead of custom getter/setter names for properties
• js : added JQuery.delegateTarget
• macro : removed EType and CType, added EMeta, modified ESwitch
• all : allow @metadata expr
• all : replaced haxe.rtti.Generic interface with @:generic metadata
• all : no longer infer arrays of mixed types as Array
• all : all type/import/enum constructor resolution now follows the shadowing principle (latest has priority)
• all : added EReg.matchSub, renamed EReg.customReplace to map
• all : no longer allow initialization of extern non-inline variables
• swf : fixed out of memory errors on very large swf-lib files
• swf : added -D swf_preloader_frame, swf_gpu, swf_direct_blit
• swf : added -D swf_script_timeout=seconds, swf_debug_password=password, swf_metadata=file
• swf : added -swf-lib-extern
• swf : added @:font support (beta)
• all : added GADT support in enums
• all : added pattern matching (beta)
• all : changed callback(func, args) to func.bind(args)
• macro : added haxe.macro.ExprTools/ComplexTypeTools/TypeTools
• macro : changed reification syntax to ${expr}, $a{array}, $p{path}, $v{value}
• macro : allow macro @:pos(pos-expr) to inject positions for reification
• all : added array comprehension
• flash : Vector.length is now Int instead of UInt
• all : moved haxe.BaseCode, haxe.Md5 and haxe.SHA1 to haxe.crypto package
• all : disallow Void variables and arguments (still allow S -> T to S -> Void)
• all : added Array.map/filter
• all : added spell check suggestions for enum constructors and fields
• all : added opaque abstract(T) types
• all : allow operator overloading on opaque abstract types
• all : renamed IntIter to IntIterator
• all : added Map
• all : added haxe.ds with StringMap, IntMap, HashMap, ObjectMap, Vector, GenericStack
• all : removed Hash, IntHash and haxe.FastList in favor of the types in haxe.ds
• all : haxe.xml.Parser now handles entities consistently across platforms
• all : renamed HAXE_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to HAXE_STD_PATH