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 would be printed in some games in some circumstances
FEATURE: radically improved rules handling to simplify usage which changed the context in which rules execute (Current Location and Current Actor no longer allowed in rules)
FEATURE: "Location Of" expression to retrieve the current location of an instance
FEATURE: syntax may now start with a parameter (an instance, like an actor name)
FEATURE: TRANSCRIPT statement in language
FEATURE: PROMPT section in language to control player input prompt
FEATURE: new debugger command language
FEATURE: tracing can now use symbolic parameter names
BUGFIX: if a dollar sign was followed by a character not defined as a printing symbol, that character was lost
BUGFIX: sometimes events would not be restored correctly from a save file
BUGFIX: positioning of error pointers in -cc mode was not always correct causing AlanIDE to point to the wrong place
BUGFIX: sometimes WinArun and Gargoyle interpreters hung on prompt
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