The Cobra Programming Language
Version 0.0.4 Release Notes
2006-02-23
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See also:
	Cobra\ReadMe.text
	Cobra\Docs\License.text
	http://CobraLang.com/

In this release:

== Additions ==

* Extended "nilable" concept to reference types like string, object, Customer.
    def sendWelcome(cust as Customer, referral as Customer?): 
        # will not accept nil for `cust`
        # will accept nil for `referral` 
* Added to? operator for "soft casting": if the cast fails, nil is returned.
    "x to type"  means "cast or raise an exception"
    "x to type?" means "cast or return nil"
* Class vars can be initialized: var _x as int = 1
* Class vars can have their type inferred: var _x = 1
* Added `in` and `not in` operators. a in b, a not in b. Valid types for b are
  string, IList(of) and IDictionary(of).
* Added formatting in string substitution. To format, put a colon and a .NET
  formatting string after the expression like so:
    mol = 42
    assert '[mol:N]'=='42.00'
* Added more compile-time type checking.

== Changes ==

* Changed string substitution to output "nil", "true" and "false"
  as appropriate.
* Change `for` to `from` in shorthand properties:  get age from _age
* `Cobra` is now a namespace and `releaseNum`, `version` and `commandLineArgs`
  are now accessed under the new `CobraCore` class.

== Fixes ==

* Fixed a bug in type checking. This now works: "o as Object = 5"
* Fixed bug in `to` operator.
* Fixed bug with string literals containing backslashes.
* Fixed bug in string substitution regarding nil obj refs.
* Fixed bug in truthfulness which was returning true for nil.
* Fixed bug preventing the use of DateTime, TimeSpan and Directory.
* Fixed bug that prevented local vars being typed as non-primitive structs.
* Fixed bug where ints could not be assigned to decimals or floats.
* Fixed a bug regarding single line comments (commenting could "dedentation").

== Small Details ==

These aren't important to the average user...unless they cause a problem.
Documented here for completeness.

* Separate CobraLang.cs out from the generated code

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