# Babble project news

## Version 1.3 (27 February 2022)

### Added

* implicit addressing for list and dictionary access
* (cond) special form
* (parse) function like in Logo

Command line arguments are now available when running interactively.

### Changed

* [breaking] (load) is now an ordinary function that always works at top level.

### Fixed

* Interactive prompt works properly again.
* (eval) is actually available now.

## Version 1.2 beta (20 February 2022)

### Added

* character class predicates;

### Changed

* [breaking] Removed name indirection in (var), (set), (dotimes), (dolist) and (function).
* (set), (dotimes), (dolist) and (function) now check the variable name.
* Redeclaring a variable in the same scope is no longer an error.

### Removed

* [internal] unused Scope.get() method

## Version 1.1 beta (17 February 2022)

### Changed

* [internal] Added item() function to simplify defaulting for list elements.
* Improved context for certain parsing errors.

### Fixed

* (set) now returns the new value rather than nil.

## Version 1.0 beta (10 February 2022)

### Added

* empty? predicate
* div and floor functions
* upcase, downcase and capitalize functions

### Changed

* [breaking] renamed the <> operator to (not=)
* [breaking] renamed (concat) to (string)
* integers are now parsed accordingly

## Version 0.5 alpha (5 February 2022)

### Added

* doc and help functions
* perror and eval functions

## Version 0.4 alpha (4 February 2022)

### Added

* error handling with (protect) and (error)
* simple file I/O with (read-file), (write-file) and (append-file)

## Version 0.3 alpha (3 February 2022)

### Added

* keys and member? functions
* push, pop, sort, odd? and even? functions
* dictionary literals

### Changed

* (var) now checks if the variable name is a string, and not already defined.
* The name argument to (function) can now be calculated.

### Fixed

* (slice) and (dict) actually work now.

## Version 0.2 alpha (2 February 2022)

Made initial release on a matching date (could't resist).