Hy

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* Many thanks to Guillermo Vayá (Willyfrog) for preparing this release's
release notes. Major shout-out. (PT)

Misc. Fixes
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* Many many many documentation fixes
* Change virtualenv name to be `hy`
* Rewrite language.hy not to require hy.core.macros
* Rewrite the bootstrap macros in hy
* Cleanup the hy.macros module
* Add comments to the functions and reorder them
* Translation of meth from Python to Hy
* PY3 should really check for Python >= 3
* Add hy._compat module to unify all Python 2 and 3 compatibility codes.
* Import future.print_statement in hy code
* Coerce the contents of unquote-splice'd things to a list
* Various setup.py enhancements.
* PEP8 fixes
* Use setuptools.find_packages()
* Update PyPI classifiers
* Update website URL
* Install the argparse module in Python 2.6 and before
* Delete the duplicate rply in install_requires. With the PyPI version,
tests are failed.
* Finally fixed access to hy.core.macros here. have to explicitly require
them.

Language Changes
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* Slightly cleaner version of drop-while, could use yield-from when ready
* Added many native core functions
* Add zero? predicate to check if an object is zero
* Macro if-python2 for compile-time choice between Python 2 and Python 3
code branches
* Added new travis make target to skip flake8 on pypy but run
it on all others
* Add "spy mode" to REPL
* Add CL handling to hyc
* Add yield from via macro magic.
* Add some machinery to avoid importing hy in setup.py
* Add a rply-based parser and lexer
* Allow quoting lambda list keywords.
* Clarified rest / cdr, cleaned up require
* Make with return the last expression from its branch
* Fix yielding to not suck (151)
* Make assoc accept multiple values, also added an even/odd check for
checkargs
* Added ability to parse doc strings set in defclass declarations,
* Provide bin scripts for both Windows and \*nix
* Removes setf in favor of setv

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Stupid Fixes
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* I forgot to include hy.core.language in the sdist. (PT)

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Syntax Fixes
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* Macros are now module-specific, and must be required when used. (KH)
* Added a few more string escapes to the compiler (Thomas Ballinger)
* Keywords are pseudo-callable again, to get the value out of a dict. (PT)
* Empty expression is now the same as an empty vector. (Guillermo Vaya)

Language Changes
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* HyDicts (quoted dicts or internal HST repr) are now lists
that compiled down to dicts by the Compiler later on. (ND)
* Macros can be constants as well. (KH)
* Add eval-when-compile and eval-and-compile (KH)
* Add break and continue to Hy (Morten Linderud)
* Core language libraries added. As example, I've included `take` and
`drop` in this release. More to come (PT)
* Importing a broken module's behavior now matches Python's more
closely. (Morten Linderud)

Misc. Fixes
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* Ensure compiler errors are always "user friendly" (JD)
* Hy REPL quitter repr adjusted to match Hy syntax (Morten Linderud)
* Windows will no longer break due to missing readline (Ralph Moritz)

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Syntax Fixes
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* Quasi-quoting now exists long with quoting. Macros will also not
expand things in quotes.
* kwapply now works with symbols as well as raw dicts. (ND)
* Try / Except will now return properly again. (PT)
* Bare-names sprinkled around the AST won't show up anymore (ND)

Language Changes
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* Added a new (require) form, to import macros for that module (PT)
* Native macros exist and work now! (ND)
* (fn) and (lambda) have been merged (ND)
* New (defclass) builtin for class definitions (JD)
* Add unquote-splicing (ND)

Errata
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* Paul was an idiot and marked the j-related bug as a JD fix, it was
actually ND. My bad.

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Syntax Fixes
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* UTF-8 encoded hy symbols are now `hy_`... rather than `__hy_`..., it's
silly to prefex them as such. (PT)
* `j` is no longer always interpreted as a complex number; we use it much
more as a symbol. (ND)
* (decorate-with) has been moved to (with-decorate) (JD)
* New (unless) macro (JD)
* New (when) macro (JD)
* New (take) macro (eigenhombre)
* New (drop) macro (eigenhombre)
* import-from and import-as finally removed. (GN)
* Allow bodyless functions (JD)
* Allow variable without value in `let` declaration (JD)
* new (global) builtin (eal)
* new lambda-list syntax for function defs, for var-arity, kwargs. (JK)

Language Changes
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* *HUGE* rewrite of the compiler. Massive thanks go to olasd
and jd for making this happen. This solves just an insane number
of bugs. (ND, PT, JD)
* Eval no longer sucks with statements (ND)
* New magic binary flags / mis fixes with the hy interpreter
(WKG + eigenhombre)

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Syntax Fixes
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* .pyc generation routines now work on Python 3. (Vladimir Gorbunov)
* Allow empty (do) forms (JD)
* The `else` form is now supported in `try` statements. (JD)
* Allow `(raise)`, which, like Python, will re-raise
the last Exception. (JD)
* Strings, bools, symbols are now valid top-level entries. (Konrad Hinsen)
* UTF-8 strings will no longer get punycode encoded. (ND)
* bare (yield) is now valid. (PT)
* (try) now supports the (finally) form. (JD)
* Add in the missing operators and AugAssign operators. (JD)
* (foreach) now supports the (else) form. (JD)

WARNING: WARNING: READ ME: READ ME:
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From here on out, we will only support "future division" as part of hy.
This is actually quite a pain for us, but it's going to be quite an
amazing feature.

This also normalizes behavior from Py 2 --> Py 3.

Thank you so much, Konrad Hinsen.

Language Changes
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* (pass) has been removed from the language; it's a wart that comes from
a need to create valid Python syntax without breaking the whitespace
bits. (JD)
* We've moved to a new import style, (import-from) and (import-as) will
be removed before 1.0. (GN)
* Prototypes for quoted forms (PT)
* Prototypes for eval (PT)
* Enhance tracebacks from language breakage coming from the compiler (JD)
* The REPL no longer bails out if the internals break (Konrad Hinsen)
* We now support float and complex numbers. (Konrad Hinsen)
* Keywords (such as :foo) are now valid and loved. (GN)