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ProXPL v1.6.0 Upgrade Guide

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Welcome to ProXPL v1.6.0! This release marks a significant milestone as we have fully integrated the core advanced paradigms into the ProXPL Virtual Machine and Bytecode generator.

This guide covers the necessary adjustments required when upgrading your codebase from v1.5.0.

1. Intent-Oriented Programming

In v1.5.0, intent declarations and resolvers were parsed but ignored by the compiler backend. In v1.6.0, they are fully functional and emit runtime opcodes.

Syntax Requirement

Intent declarations now strictly require a trailing semicolon (;).

v1.5.0 (Tolerated but ignored):

intent ProcessData(data)
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v1.6.0 (Required):

intent ProcessData(data);
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Resolver Matching

Ensure you use the matches keyword (not resolves or other variants) when binding a resolver to an intent.

resolver DataHandler matches ProcessData {
    print("Handling data!");
}
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2. Context-Aware Polymorphism

Contexts and Layers are now strictly validated and execute proper environment scoping at runtime.

Block Activation

The activate statement now requires a block to encapsulate the active context. It cannot be used as a standalone statement.

v1.5.0 (Tolerated but ignored):

activate AdminTheme;
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v1.6.0 (Required):

activate AdminTheme {
    // Operations inside this block run with AdminTheme layers applied
    renderUI();
}
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3. Autonomic Self-Healing (ASR)

The resilient keyword now provides genuine zero-cost exception unwinding using setjmp/longjmp under the hood in the VM.

Code placed inside a resilient block will no longer cause fatal crashes when operations like division-by-zero occur. Instead, they will recover silently and continue execution after the block.

No syntax changes are required, but you should review your error-handling logic as runtime errors that previously crashed the process will now be caught and recovered if inside a resilient scope.

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