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[Amos Wenger <amoswenger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

It is my great pleasure to announce that rock 0.9.0 went out yesterday
night, with binary builds for 32 and 64bit linux, 32bit windows, and 64bit
OSX.

A few days ago, we
bootstrapped<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)>,
which means that

   - rock is now distributed as C source
   - building rock is as simple as grabbing the C
source<http://github.com/downloads/nddrylliog/rock/rock-0.9.0-source.tar.bz2>,
   extract, type 'make'. That's it. No dependencies. No hassle.
   - rock is written in ooc <http://docs.ooc-lang.org/>, and it compiles
   itself!
   - j/ooc <http://github.com/nddrylliog/ooc> is meant to die (unless
   someone really wants to maintain it)



We're very excited to present you this release, packed with awesome:



   - interfaces<http://github.com/nddrylliog/bootcamp/tree/master/source/interfaces>have
been implemented, so that this compiles fine:

Representable: interface {
    toString: func -> String
}

Dog: class implements Representable {
    growl: func {}
    toString: func -> String { "Dog!" }
    run: func {}
}

Cat: class implements Representable {
    meowl: func {}
    beLazy: func {}
    toString: func -> String { "Cat!" }
}

main: func {
    print(Dog new())
    print(Cat new())
}

print: func (r: Representable) {
    r toString() println()
}



   - we now have real closures
<http://github.com/nddrylliog/bootcamp/tree/master/source/closures>,
that capture context, thanks to yaijt
<http://github.com/nddrylliog/yajit>:

import os/Env

main: func {


    msg := "Pleased to meet you"
    name := Env get("USER")


    atexit(func {
        "%s, %s" format(msg, name) println()
    })
}



   - a powerful enums syntax
<http://github.com/nddrylliog/bootcamp/tree/master/source/enums>, that
plays well with C and is incredibly pleasurable to use, e.g.:

Colors: enum { red, green, blue }

main: func {
    blue := Colors blue
    "Blue's value is %d" format(blue) println()
}

   - but also:

Multiples: enum(*2) { x=1, y ,z }
Sums: enum (+4) { a, b, c }

main: func {
    "x=%d y=%d z=%d" format(Multiples x, Multiples y, Multiples z) println()
    "a=%d b=%d c=%d" format(Sums a, Sums b, Sums c) println()
}



   - ..and many more features, for example, helpful error messages:

helpful.ooc:3:12 ERROR No such function FileReaderClass.new(String, Char)
FileReader new("/etc/hosts", 'r')
           ^^^
        Nearest match is:

                FileReader.new~withMode: static func (fileName :
String, mode : String) -> FileReader

        ..but the type of this arg should be String, not Char

                FileReader new("/etc/hosts", 'r')
                                              ^
[FAIL]


We've been working hard to deliver you the very best of our git repos.
All our code lives on GitHub <http://github.com/languages/ooc>, and
most of it is BSD or friendlier.

Please fill our bug tracker
<http://github.com/nddrylliog/rock/issues>, suggest ideas on the
mailing list <https://launchpad.net/~ooc-dev> or our IRC channel
(#ooc-lang on Freenode)

Our docs <http://docs.ooc-lang.org/> are still looking a bit bare at
the moment - any help is greatly appreciated!

Enjoy the fresh release, and spread the word if you like it! (news
websites,etc.)

--
Amos Wenger (nddrylliog)