v1.5.0

1.5.0 (2024-05-31)

Added

• dictionary data type.

  • dictionary: Object that maps unique keys to values.
  • configureDictionary: Create dictionary with specified key and value types.
  • insert: Add entries to a dictionary.
  • lookup: Find value in dictionary by key.
  • remove: Remove dictionary entries.
  • entries: Key-value pairs of dictionary.
  • keys: Keys of dictionary.
  • values: Values of dictionary.
  • types: Types of dictionary keys and values.
  • numEntries: Number of key-value pairs in dictionary.
  • isConfigured: Determine if dictionary has types assigned to keys and values.
  • isKey: Determine if dictionary contains key.
  • keyHash: Generate hash code for dictionary key.
  • keyMatch: Determine if two dictionary keys are the same.

• bernsteinMatrix: Bernstein matrix.

• orderedfields: Order fields of structure array.

• Python interface (part 3):

  • #1160 Python operators in Nelson.
  • keyHash, keyMatch for python objects.
  • isa builtin support python types.
  • python dictionary to Nelson dictionary dictionary(pyDict)
  • conversion dictionary to python dictionary.

Changed

• help files generated sorted by name on all platforms.
• on windows, Qt libraries used are in debug mode.

Fixed

• #1195 strcmp({'a'},["a"]) did not return expected value.