v0.6.2

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Release notes for 0.6.2

We're pleased to announce Morpho 0.6.2, which is primarily a maintenance release and incorporates a number of bugfixes and improvements.

Morphopm package manager

Alongside this release, we are pleased to announce a new package manager for morpho called morphopm, which makes installation of morpho packages significantly easier for users. Morphopm is available on github and can also be installed via homebrew:

brew tap morpho-lang/morpho
brew install morpho-morphopm

Benchmarks

The benchmarks folder, which used to contain a number of basic benchmarks for morpho, has been moved to a new repository with several new benchmarks added. We will be using these to continue to improve morpho's performance.

Ternary operator

Morpho now provides the ternary operator similar to other C-family languages:

var a = (b < c ? b : c)

Minor fixes

• Keywords can now be used as method and property labels.
• The povray module now produces silent output on linux if the quiet option is set.
• apply() now works properly with metafunctions.
• Bugfixes in the Sparse class.
• Improvements to resource locator.
• Fixes to multiple dispatch with variadic parameters.
• Fixes to Range class.
• Morpho running the test suite now passes valgrind memory checker.
• meshtools now explicitly checks that the Mesh generated isn't too large.

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