Changeset 1769 for cobra/trunk/Developer/IntermediateReleaseNotes.text

Timestamp:

11/16/08 21:02:05 (4 years ago)

Author:

Chuck.Esterbrook

Message:

Regarding "truthfulness" such as found in assert, if and if(...), primitive nilable types such as bool? and int? now have their value examined. Previously, simply being non-nil was enough to be true, but that was not intuitive nor consistent with dynamic?.
ticket:5

Files:

• cobra/trunk/Developer/IntermediateReleaseNotes.text (modified) (1 diff)

cobra/trunk/Developer/IntermediateReleaseNotes.text

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 * The default type for vars, properties and method arguments is now `dynamic?`. Also the result type for `d.foo` where `d` is dynamic is now `dynamic?` instead of `dynamic`. These changes reflect the flexibility that was originally intended with default types and dynamic typing.
 
+* Regarding "truthfulness" such as found in `assert`, `if` and `if(...)`, primitive nilable types such as `bool?` and `int?` now have their value examined. Previously, simply being non-nil was enough to be true, but that was not intuitive nor consistent with `dynamic?`. ticket:5
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 * Added new `all` and `any` unary operators that take something enumerable (such as a list, set or generator) and return a boolean (true or false) indicating if all or any of the elements are true. These operators increase expressiveness in conditions. For example, a contract might use these operators:
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