The Squirrel programming language
Squirrel is a light-weight programming language (around 6000 lines of code) that features higher-order functions, classes/inheritance, delegation, tail recursion, generators, cooperative threads, exception handling, reference counting and garbage collection on demand. It has a C-like syntax.
| Tags | Software Development Compilers Interpreters |
|---|---|
| Licenses | MIT |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases
- 08 Sep 2011 21:40
Release Notes: This release adds # as an alternative symbol for "line comment" (mostly useful for shell scripts). It adds an alignment flag for user data types. It adds a new API function sq_throwobject. There are minor bugfixes.
- 13 Mar 2011 17:07
Release Notes: sq_getcallee() was added in the API. sq_getfreevariable() also works for native closures. Minor optimizations were made. Several warnings when compiling with GCC 4.x were removed. Some errors in the documentation were fixed. A bug when using SQUSEDOUBLE and 32-bit intengers was fixed. A bug when invoking generators with closure.call() was fixed.
- 19 Dec 2010 11:57
Release Notes: Metamethods error handling was improved. The "isstatic" parameter was added to the _newmember metamethod. sq_getrefcount() was added to return the number of refences from C++. Minor bugs were fixed.
- 18 Aug 2010 23:16
Release Notes: This release fixes a nasty bug in the classes. It fixes a closure bug.
- 11 Aug 2010 12:54
Release Notes: Class methods can be added or replaced after the class has been instantiated. JSON compliant table syntax was added as an experimental feature. sq_getsize() now returns userdatasize for classes and instances. setroottable() and setconsttable() now return the previous value of the respective table. A few minor bugfixes and refactoring were done.
fagiano
05 Sep 2003 17:19
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