Jamie Balfour

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ZPE 1.5.3 update April 2017

ZPE 1.5.3 update April 2017

Version 1.5.3 will now change the way that the break function works. In fact, it will no longer be a function at all, since a function implies it has a return value (and functions that return nothing will return void). Break has always been a special function, mainly because of it's purpose, but also because of the fact that it cannot ever return anything, just like the return function did before it became a staple part of the compiler.

Break has followed suit in the step to promote it from being an interpreted function to a compiled keyword, just as return did back some time ago. Not only did this improve the speed at which return was processed, but it also made it even more difficult to overwrite it. 

My question to myself is now, when will version 1.5.3 stop getting updates and when will I actually release it? Well, the answer to that is that I aim to make this a perfect distribution, fixing all bugs that exist currently and adding as many of the promised features as I can. I anticipate the start of April 2017 for this update to be launched on my website, but until then you can always try out the unstable beta versions from the link on the page.

Also, as part of the update and refactoring of the Zenith Engine, I have made version 1.5.3 a lot smaller and a lot faster. I may explain where the performance gains come from in a blog post, but probably not. Overall, 1.5.3 is one of the biggest updates to ZPE since version 1.5. It also ditches GSON in favour of JBSON.
I have released version 1.5.3 on to my website for download. I have also begun work on version 1.5.4 which aims to change quite a lot of the underlying data structures.
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