OpenEuphoria: Euphoria v4.1

# OpenEuphoria Manual

## Euphoria v4.1

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## 1.3 What's new in 4.0?

Euphoria v4.0 is a very large jump in functionality from the previous stable release, 3.1.1.

Euphoria has a brand new standard library consisting of over 800 public members. Too numerous to list here, please see the reference section of this manual.

### 1.3.1 General Changes

- New manual and documentation system
- New logo
- Switched to using our own ticket system
- Switched to using our own self hosted Mercurial SCM system

### 1.3.2 Executable name changes

Old | New | Description
--- | --- | ---
`ex` and `exwc` | `eui` | Euphoria Interpreter
`ec` and `ecw` | `euc` | Euphoria to C Translator
`bind.bat` and `bind` | `eubind` | Euphoria Binder
`shroud.bat` and `shroud` | `eushroud` | Euphoria Shrouder

### 1.3.3 Language Enhancements

- Conditional compilation using the `ifdef statement`.
- Raw strings, which can include multilined text.
- Multiline comments using the C-styled comments `/* .. */`, which can be nested.
- Binary, Octal and alternative Decimal and Hexadecimal number format - `0b10 (2), 0t10 (8), 0d10 (10), 0x10 (16)`
- Hexadecimal string formats. Use `\x` to embed any byte value into a standard string, or create an entire hexadecimal byte string using `x" ... "`
- Function results can now be ignored.
- Optional list terminator. The final item in a list can be the dollar symbol (`$`). This is just a place holder for the end-of-list, making it easier to add and delete items from the source code without having to adjust the commas.
- Enumerated values/types (`enum`, `enum type`)
- Built-in `eu:` namespace
- Declare variable anywhere, not just at the top of a routine.
- Scoped variables (declared inside an `if` for example)
- Assign on declaration. You can now declare a variable and assign it an initial value on the same statement.
- The `object()` built-in function can now be used to safely test if a variable has been initialized or not.
- Forward referencing. You no longer need to lexically declare a routine before using it.
- Additional loop constructs ...
  - `loop`/`until`
  - You can label a loop
  - `while X with entry`
  - `exit`, `continue`, `retry`. All with an optional `"label"`
  - `goto`
- Additional conditional constructs
  - `switch` statement with or without `fallthru`
  - You can label an `if` or `switch`
  - `break` keyword allows exiting from `if` / `switch` blocks
- Default/optional parameters for routines
- Additional scope modifiers
  - `export`
  - `public` (`public include`)
  - `override`
- Built in sockets
- Built in Regular Expressions
- Resource clean up that can be triggered manually, or when an object's reference count goes to zero
- Automatic inlining of small routines, with / without inline
- Built in, optimized sequence operations (`remove`, `insert`, `splice`, `replace`, `head`, `tail`)
- Built in peek and poke 2 byte values, 1 byte signed values, peek null terminated strings, `peek`, `peek2`, `peek_string`, `poke` and `poke2`
- Fine grained control over which, if any, warnings will be generated by Euphoria, with / without warning.

### 1.3.4 Tool Additions / Enhancements

- General
  - User Defined Preprocessor
  - Configuration system (eu.cfg)
  - Version display for all tools
- Interpreter
  - New test mode, Command line switches
  - Batch mode for unattended execution such as a CGI application, Command line switches
- Translator
  - Compiles directly
  - Can compile in debug mode using the `-debug` argument
  - Can write a makefile
  - Can compile/bind a resource file on Windows
  - Now includes `eudbg.lib`, `eu.a` and `eudbg.a` files in addition to the `eu.lib` file enabling one to link against debug libraries and also use the MinGW compiler directly without having to recompile sources.
- New independent shrouder
- Coverage Analysis
- Disassembler
- EuDist - Distributing Programs
- EuDOC - Source Documentation Tool
- EuTEST - Unit Testing

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