v0.0.5

Besides a couple of minor improvements to the launcher and test coverage, the highlight of this feature is the addition of the primitive WORDS which is part of the self-documenting system (alongside SEE).

BTW, to test out the quality of bjForth, I used this version to implement the 1st chapter of StockPerson and the result was quite pleasing: https://github.com/bahmanm/stockperson-bjForth 🎉

What's Changed

• Create a launcher by @bahmanm in #302
• Implement QTRUE and QFALSE primitives by @bahmanm in #303
• Update dependency org.assertj:assertj-core to v3.27.1 by @renovate in #304
• Implement the WORDS primitive by @bahmanm in #305
• Pass arguments (Forth sources) to the launcher by @bahmanm in #306

Full Changelog: v0.0.4...v0.0.5

v0.0.4

Besides implementing :ANON and CASE...ENDCASE words, this release is mostly a bug fix release around Java inter-op.

A notable change is how you may launch bjForth using the included bjForth BASH script.

What's Changed

• Include documentation in the release tarball. by @bahmanm in #291
• Implement the CASE..ENDCASE construct by @bahmanm in #292
• Implement the SEE primitive by @bahmanm in #295
• Encode word length in dictionary by @bahmanm in #296
• Implement :ANON and ['] words by @bahmanm in #298
• Update the docs by @bahmanm in #299
• Java inter-op: Support array arguments by @bahmanm in #301

Full Changelog: v0.0.3...v0.0.4

v0.0.3

🎉 A good deal of words and primitives were introduced in this release along improving the user-friendliness of bjForth.

✔️ Some prominent changes include:

• Looping construct (WHILE, UNTIL, AGAIN)
• Conditionals (IF, UNLESS)
• Debugging facilities (DUMP)
• Printing numbers (., NUM->STR)

💡 Don't forget to check out the docs directory included in the distribution.

As always, make sure you have OpenJDK 21 installed.

cat bjForth.forth - | java -jar bjForth-v0.0.3.jar

What's Changed

• Implement the main loop by @bahmanm in #180
• Use shadowJar to generate a fat executable JAR. by @bahmanm in #189
• Configure CircleCI to create a release upon a tag push by @bahmanm in #190
• Create a distinct workflow for release by @bahmanm in #191
• Install Go (required by release workflow) by @bahmanm in #192
• Fix a typo in CircleCI config by @bahmanm in #193
• Use CircleCI env var to access the tag name by @bahmanm in #194
• Install Java before creating a release by @bahmanm in #195
• Install ghr in a separate step by @bahmanm in #196
• Set GOPATH to /usr/local by @bahmanm in #197
• Provide the path to the artefact to be uploaded by @bahmanm in #198
• Improve WORD primitive by @bahmanm in #201
• Make dictionary search case-insensitive by @bahmanm in #202
• Write E2E tests to check the sanity of changes by @bahmanm in #204
• Revert changes RE parentheses by @bahmanm in #205
• Update all non-major dependencies to v5.11.4 by @renovate in #203
• Implement the TICK primitive by @bahmanm in #207
• implement PRINT and PRINTLN primitives by @bahmanm in #210
• Implement the HIDE primitive by @bahmanm in #211
• Use the word address to look it up by @bahmanm in #212
• Support character entry with '. by @bahmanm in #214
• Ignore TAB by @bahmanm in #215
• Accept Character as the word name by @bahmanm in #216
• Implement the DOT primitive by @bahmanm in #218
• Improve WORD and INTERPRET by @bahmanm in #219
• Support string literals by @bahmanm in #222
• Java inter-op experiments by @bahmanm in #224
• Implement the DOTDOUBLEQUOTE primitive by @bahmanm in #227
• Prepare release v0.0.2 by @bahmanm in #230
• Fix E2E tests by @bahmanm in #232
• Update dependency org.assertj:assertj-core to v3.27.0 by @renovate in #231
• Add the downloads badge by @bahmanm in #233
• Adjust downloads badge color by @bahmanm in #234
• Support string literals by @bahmanm in #235
• Display "null" for null values by @bahmanm in #237
• Update dependency gradle to v8.12 by @renovate in #238
• Create the initial library bjForth.forth by @bahmanm in #236
• Build an archive of bjForth JAR file and Forth libraries by @bahmanm in #241
• DOTDOUBLEQUOTE: Support both compiling and immediate modes by @bahmanm in #243
• Modify KEY to use String over char by @bahmanm in #245
• Implement the BASESTORE primitive by @bahmanm in #248
• Support variadic methods by @bahmanm in #251
• Document Java inter-op by @bahmanm in #253
• Rename . to .S (DOTSTACK) by @bahmanm in #250
• Include Java interop primitives by @bahmanm in #255
• Include E2E tests in the PR pipeline by @bahmanm in #256
• Implement the !BASE primitive by @bahmanm in #257
• Java inter-op mark .<, ,< and @< and as immediate by @bahmanm in #260
• Redefine words by @bahmanm in #262
• Write tests for reverse lookup and getting all the items by @bahmanm in #264
• Write tests by @bahmanm in #265
• Extend the bjForth.forth library by @bahmanm in #246
• Include bjForth library in E2E tests by @bahmanm in #267
• Rewrite NUM->STR in terms of itself by @bahmanm in #268
• Document the library words by @bahmanm in #271
• Implement the QNULL primitive by @bahmanm in #275
• Implement the NULL primitive by @bahmanm in #277
• Include basic file operations in the library by @bahmanm in #274
• Write essential words to deal with files. by @bahmanm in #278
• Programmatically extract the library docs by @bahmanm in #279
• Attempt at taming exceptions by @bahmanm in #280
• Remove angle brackets when displaying objects by @bahmanm in #281
• Directly print instead of relying on PRINTLN by @bahmanm in #282
• Extend the forth library by @bahmanm in #283
• Implement the STOREHERE primitive by @bahmanm in #284
• Extend the forth library by @bahmanm in #285
• Implement ALLOT and VARIABLE by @bahmanm in #286
• Implement the IDDOT primitive by @bahmanm in #287
• Implement the FORGET primitive by @bahmanm in #288
• Implement bitwise primitives by @bahmanm in #289
• Implement the DUMP primitive by @bahmanm in #290

Full Changelog: v0.0.1...v0.0.3

v0.0.2

The first ever release 🎉

The fruit of 2 years worth of work, v0.0.2 packs a good bunch of features including initial Java inter-op. You can view the list of all the words included in the library.

### Call instance method
." Hello, world ". isEmpty/0 ..
.
java.lang.Boolean<false>

### Create a new object (constructor)
." bjForth-v0.0.2.jar ". new/1 java.io.File @@
.
java.io.File<bjForth-v0.0.2.jar>

### Call an instance method
getAbsolutePath/0 ..
.
java.lang.String</home/bahman/workspace/forth/bjforth/bjforth/build/libs/bjForth-v0.0.2.jar>

### Call a static method
listRoots/0 java.io.File ,,
.
java.io.File[]<[Ljava.io.File;@3c679bde>

What's Changed

• Implement the main loop by @bahmanm in #180
• Use shadowJar to generate a fat executable JAR. by @bahmanm in #189
• Configure CircleCI to create a release upon a tag push by @bahmanm in #190
• Create a distinct workflow for release by @bahmanm in #191
• Install Go (required by release workflow) by @bahmanm in #192
• Fix a typo in CircleCI config by @bahmanm in #193
• Use CircleCI env var to access the tag name by @bahmanm in #194
• Install Java before creating a release by @bahmanm in #195
• Install ghr in a separate step by @bahmanm in #196
• Set GOPATH to /usr/local by @bahmanm in #197
• Provide the path to the artefact to be uploaded by @bahmanm in #198
• Improve WORD primitive by @bahmanm in #201
• Make dictionary search case-insensitive by @bahmanm in #202
• Write E2E tests to check the sanity of changes by @bahmanm in #204
• Revert changes RE parentheses by @bahmanm in #205
• Update all non-major dependencies to v5.11.4 by @renovate in #203
• Implement the TICK primitive by @bahmanm in #207
• implement PRINT and PRINTLN primitives by @bahmanm in #210
• Implement the HIDE primitive by @bahmanm in #211
• Use the word address to look it up by @bahmanm in #212
• Support character entry with '. by @bahmanm in #214
• Ignore TAB by @bahmanm in #215
• Accept Character as the word name by @bahmanm in #216
• Implement the DOT primitive by @bahmanm in #218
• Improve WORD and INTERPRET by @bahmanm in #219
• Support string literals by @bahmanm in #222
• Java inter-op experiments by @bahmanm in #224
• Implement the DOTDOUBLEQUOTE primitive by @bahmanm in #227
• Prepare release v0.0.2 by @bahmanm in #230

Full Changelog: v0.0.1...v0.0.2