MAJOR FEATURE: the class of parameters and locals can now be asserted using If .. Isa .. allowing general restrictions in parameter restrictions and more specific access (attributes, scripts, containers) with the If-statement
FEATURE: Attributes inherited from entity can now be referenced for literals
FEATURE: Debugger now has a command to toggle a levels of trace off and on
FEATURE: Debugger now lists the programmer name of instances as well as the player name
FEATURE: Debugger can now list instances matching a wildcard pattern ("instance a*")
FEATURE: Compiler now flags all occurrences of a multiply defined identifier
BUGFIX: Out of memory error in interpreter for very large game fixed
BUGFIX: sometimes locating a location At itself crashed the interpreter
BUGFIX: comparing strings with '' did not work
BUGFIX: using a location identifier as a direction sometimes caused a compiler crash
BUGFIX: A DEBUG message could be printed in some games in some circumstances
This is the Alan SDK for Windows which consists of the compiler, an interpreter, the manual and some examples. This is the GUI version which you need if you are working from the Windows GUI/Explorer view.
If you want to use the AlanIDE you need the command line version.
This is the Alan SDK for Windows which consists of the compiler, an interpreter, the manual and some examples. This is the command line version which you need if you are working from a command window or the AlanIDE.
This is the Alan SDK for Linux which consists of the compiler, an interpreter, the manual and some examples. This is suitable for command line based work and for use with the AlanIDE.
This is the Alan SDK for MacOSXwhich consists of the compiler, an interpreter, the manual and some examples. The MacOSX version are command line based, suitable both for Terminal command based work and for use with the AlanIDE, which is the recommended tool for authoring and compiling.
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