Squirrel

Is there any timeline planned for squirrel 3? I remember there being an alpha version released a while back...

Perhaps more importantly, is there a definitive list somewhere of the main changes in language and API from version 2 to version 3?  It would be very useful to know what parts of the language/API to avoid to make easy to switch to version 3 when it comes out.

Thanks,
John B

Stupid me. I was misled by the default date restrictions on the forums - looks like there are plenty of posts with this information already.

Still, any updated information would be interesting.

Thanks,
John B

Me wants to know too.

Alberto, please, tell us about the progress on new version?

 

I'm experimenting with new scoping rules and I'm a bit stuck, I have few new ideas but none really satisfy me completely. I'm considering adding 'mixins'. An inplementation of lua-style lexical scoping is beeing considered. The fact that I haven't released anything in a while is because I'm not sure about few things I don't want to release stuff that is not going to make it in the final language.

Alberto

> An implementation of lua-style lexical scoping is being considered.

I would really appreciate that. We're talking Lua-style upvalues, right? It's always been right at the top of my wishlist, and if you want to do a little bit of functional style programming it really helps.

Also, because (thankfully) Squirrel uses the <- (new slot) operator and local keyword, you won't have the same difficulties as the Python folks did when they started doing lexical scoping.