Prothon gets Major Facelift in Vers 0.1.0

Prothon version 0.1.0 has just been released.

Prothon has changed dramatically for those who have not seen it since it was
first announced.   For example: the "Perl-like" symbols are gone and the
"self" keyword is back, replacing the period.  Prothon has gotten more
"python-like", simpler, and more powerful, all at the same time.

There is a new tutorial that covers Prothon completely without assuming any
knowledge of Python or any other language. The Prothon/Python differences
page now has links to the relevant section of this new tutorial.

Some of these differences are:

Locals and globals are gone and replaced by a simple scheme that allows you
to access any local or external variable from inside a block or function
scope by name.  You may also modify any existing variable outside of the
current scope by simply prepending "outer" to the variable name as in
"outer.x = 1".  You can even do this "outer access" when the variable is in
a function that has quit running,  giving you "closures" with no need for a
special syntax.

There is a new powerful self-binding method syntax that gives you the
ability to explicitly specify the "self" to bind to a function call with
"obj.func{self}(args)".  This allows the full power of message-passing to be
used without compromising the simplicity of function calling.  This powerful
and general scheme also solves the problem of calling methods when there is
no such thing as a class to define what a method is.  Intelligent defaults
for {self} allow most method calls to be the intuiitive and simple form
obj.call().

The "with" keyword now just creates a new local scope instead of another
"self" which was so confusing before.  So "self" is now the simple meaning
of the instance object inside a method as it is in Python.

There is a new "object" keyword which works almost identically to the
"class" keyword, yet also works as a general object creation and
initialization statement.  It combines object creation and the "with"
statement.

See http://prothon.org.


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