Floating point modulus
Support for floating point modulus has been added to DWScript, it extends the “mod” operator to accept floats.
Non-English Blogs now on BeginEnd.net
Non-English Blogs have been added to BeginEnd.net, not many just yet: three in Italian, one French and one Korean!
The BeginEnd.net website itself stays in English, and the posts titles & descriptions are going to be automatically-translated in English (currently through Microsoft Translator service).
BeginEnd.net has begun, where will it end?
Last week www.beginend.net was launched with the goal of aggregating Pascal and Delphi blogs in a mobile-friendly, secure website with a minimalist UI.
The website is Pascal-Powered: the server is Delphi-compiled DWScript Sample Web server, the server-side page generation and APIs are handled by DWS and an SQLite database, and the client-side is a SmartPascal application compiled on-the-fly to JavaScript by the server.
Coalesce operator for DWScript
Support for ?? (double question mark) as the coalesce operator has been added to DWScript.
The coalesce operator is a binary operator, which looks at its left operand, and if not “falsey”, returns it, otherwise returns its right operand.
TBCEditor Syntax-Highlighting Editor
A new syntax-highlighting editor has been unleashed upon the Delphi world by Lasse Rautiainen, it’s named TBCEditor, and it is quite full-featured, clean, stable and fast.
The main source code is TBCEditor on github and supports Delphi XE4-XE8, I have made a fork TBCEditorXE on bitbucket which supports XE.