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v = "2.0.0"

• Colons are now completely dropped for tables, and the header has thus changed to |ion{ as well. If the old header is detected, then it converts to the new way of structuring things.
• Tabless mode has received a variety of compactness upgrades, particularly in regards to how curly brackets are written to the file.
• Keys are now escaped when being used as a string pattern to extract the value.
• Empty arrays now get properly loaded instead of being treated as nil.

v = "1.3.0"

• A multitude of boolean optimisation.
• while true do in ion.Read overall replaced with a simple state machine.
• \n replaced with string.char(10) for further byte optimisation on specifically Windows hardware, at the cost of compatibility with older software.
• Some consistency improvements.
• Cleaned up gsub variable reassignment.

v = "1.2.2"

• Tabless mode detection slightly adjusted.
• Tabulations are no longer escaped, as it is completely unnecessary.
• Parser's handling of first line optimised.
• "Compare" helper function no longer inverts what is passed, on account of what will be passed will always be false anyway.

v = "1.2.1"

• Boolean conversion logic slightly adjusted for optimisation and compatability.

v = "1.2.0"

• "Tabless" mode added. If enabled, indentation is not used to save even more bytes.
• Bug-fixes and optimisations galore.

v = "1.1.0"

• Parser overall given minor optimisations:
  • } and the first line are both now quickly interpreted, then skipped to avoid unnecessary string operations.
  • The variable that formerly tracked the number of tabs in a string has been removed, thus allowing an ion to include no tabs at all.
• Tab logic overall adjusted. The "prefix" variable now has 1 tab by default instead of 0, and ion Creation has been overall adjusted to fit this.

v = "1.0.1"

• Adjusted logic. Empty tables are now displayed as simply {}, and the parser has been updated to detect this.
• Target file is now checked for nil when creating an ion as an extra precaution.

v = "1.0.0"

Public release. Full list of features introduced in this update:

• ion Creation:
  • Datatables get turned into ions.
  • A Blacklist can be used to exclude entries with particular keys; Blacklists can be turned into Whitelists.
  • Positrons and Electrons can be passed to perform further comparison operations.
• ion Loading:
  • ions can be turned back into tables by specifying the file path.