A releases/0.4.0.html

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ 
+<h3 id="v0.4.0">v0.4.0 &mdash; 2025-01-03</h3>
+
+<h4>Breaking Changes</h4>
+<ul>
+    <li>Removed the native symbol %:when%%.</li>
+    <li>Bytecode: some opcodes changed values; programs compiled with tbe previous version must be recompiled.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>New Features</h4>
+<ul>
+    <li>Added symbol {{sym-debug}} to dequote a quotation in debug mode.</li>
+    <li>The registry has been reimplemented as a hash table that can store up to 4096 symbols.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Fixes</h4>
+<ul>
+    <li>Improved string escaping/unescaping.</li>
+    <li>Values bound to symbols are deep-copied before being pushed on the stack.</li>
+    <li>Action quotations are now deep-copied in {{sym-while}} and {{sym-map}} symbols.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Chores</h4>
+<ul>
+    <li>Updated Vim syntax highlighting (%:hex.vim%%).</li>
+</ul>

M scripts/web.hex → scripts/web.hex

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ 
 
 "2025" "meta-year" : 
-"0.3.0" "meta-release" :
+"0.4.0" "meta-release" :
 "web/assets" "d-assets" :
 "web/templates" "d-templates" :
 "web/contents" "d-contents" :

M web/contents/spec.html → web/contents/spec.html

@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ provided natively.</p>
     <p>It is important to note that the registry is a global store, meaning that symbols are not lexically scoped and
         can be accessed from anywhere in the program. This design choice was made to keep the language simple and
         straightforward.</p>
-    <p>In the canonical hex implementation, the registry can hold up to 1024 symbols (960 of which can be user-defined
+    <p>In the canonical hex implementation, the registry can hold up to 4096 symbols (4032 of which can be user-defined
         symbols).</p>
     <h3 id="hbx">Hex Bytecode eXecutable (HBX) Format<a href="#top"></a></h3>
     <p>hex programs can be compiled to a binary format called Hex Bytecode eXecutable (HBX). HBX is a compact binary
@@ -347,8 +347,8 @@ <li>Symbol Identifier (variable length) &mdash; The symbol identifier as a sequence of ASCII characters (not
             null-terminated).</li>
     </ul>
     <p>The symbol table can theoretically contain up to 65536 entries (the maximum size representable in two bytes);
-        however, the maximum number of user-defined symbols is currently limited to 960, since the <a
-            href="#registry">registry</a> has a maximum size of 1024 items and 64 are reserved for native symbols.
+        however, the maximum number of user-defined symbols is currently limited to 4032, since the <a
+            href="#registry">registry</a> has a maximum size of 4096 items and 64 are reserved for native symbols.
     </p>
     <h4 id="bytecode">Bytecode Program<a href="#top"></a></h4>
     <p>The bytecode program in an HBX file contains the compiled hex program as a sequence of opcodes and payload. Each