Toy v2 Beta 2 - Full Steam Ahead!

[Ratstail91]

Work on Toy is full steam ahead!

Many subtle and hard-to-find bugs have been found and fixed, work on the ToyBox project is slowly progressing (with a lot of the aforementioned bugs identified while working on ToyBox), and a number of contributions and considerable feedback has been incorporated into the code!

So what's been happening?

First, a big thank you to @Jenny-hso for contributing syntax highlighting for multiple editors (vim, nano and micro), and to my friends in discord for listening to my considerable ramblings.

I've actually done a heck of a lot of changes and upgrades in the past 4 months, and I'm honestly too not interested in listing everything I've done, but here's some of the highlights:

• The project is now called 'The Toy Scripting Language' (as opposed to 'The Toy Programming Language') for clarity
• There's now a small set of functions called the 'standard library' which can be injected into a newly initialized VM
• Codified the exact usage of the 'for' keyword, so it uses the same syntax as in C ('foreach' will use an iterative approach in the next release)
• Added the 'import' keyword, which allows the importing of external script files as functions
• Added 'asString' to most datatypes (it was a PITA/impossible to concatenate numbers and strings previously)
• Expanded the documentation website

A Few Caveats

A few things I want to cover before you check it out:

• 'import' is still not perfect, as circular importing is very much possible - be careful!
• 'foreach' isn't implemented yet, so it's not yet possible to iterate through tables unless you know all the keys
• The documentation website is still inadequate, acting more as a reference than an actual tutorial
• Some tests are missing or marked as 'TODO'

I'm hoping to see if there's any interest in this language - so please leave me a star on github and share it around!!

Until next time :)

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