USL 3.7.1

In this release I added while loops, constants, switch statements, and exponential operators. I also updated the comprehensive help function.

The while loops are the only loops that can contain nested for loops at the moment. I have to fix nesting for loops but I work around that with while loops now.  While loops expressions must begin with a numeric variable to toggle.  I haven't programmed strings for while loop expressions yet but that will come soon (probably tomorrow).

Here is an example:

@a = 1
@b = 10
while @a <= @b
        for 5 > 1
                out "${$} "
        endfor
        @a += 1
end

The switch statements require a variable to be switched against. The variable may be either string or number and the cases may be both string or number. If no cases match, a default block of code will be parsed.

Here is an example:

method example
        @c = "This is a string."

        switch @c
                case "This is a string"
                        say "Not quite..."
                        say "The next case will be evaluated."
                case 3.14159
                        say "That is pi..."
                case "This is a string."
                        say "A match was found!"
                default
                        say "No match was found..."
        end
end

example

Constant values are immutable, meaning you cannot alter them. Constant identifiers may only contain characters A through Z and underscores. Constant variables are only used to assign values to variables.

Here is an example:

MY_CONST = "This value is immutable."
@c = MY_CONST 
say @c

The exponential operator **= assigns a numeric variable to the power of a given operand.

Here is an example:

@d = 25.6
@d **= 2

say @d

I've updated the MediaWiki and you can find it under the "Hosted Apps" tab at the sourceforge link below.

To download 3.7.1, you can visit any of the following links:

sourceforge
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