ZPE 1.5.4

Today I'm very happy to announce immediate availability of ZPE 1.5.4. This long awaited update brings a ton of performance improvements and new features including:

• Switch statements - a new feature to ZPE is the alternate way of writing a when-is statement is the standard switch statement (or case statement). This has been developed to be something of an aliase for the when-is statement, so it will compile to the same op code and will operate the same way etc.
• Server based ZPE improvements - the server based ZPE will now create thread children that will handle requests. This is a very powerful and useful feature that will allow ZPE to operate much more efficiently on multiple requests at once.
• Constant tracking - the compiler will now no longer permit constant duplication or reassignment and will halt when it finds this, saving on interpreter time.
• New object declaration (finally) - in a move towards a more JavaScript syntax for object definition, objects are now declarable within braces as { name : "Jamie Balfour", color : "Orange" }. This new move makes it faster to declare objects, as well as making it tidier.