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⚡️ 0. Cleared invalid return type from Slice.skipBits()

If you've previously tried to assign it's results somewhere, it failed with an unwieldy FunC error. But now, the return type is cleared, so one more unreadable error got out of the way!

If you need its return value for some reason, take a look at Slice.preloadBits()

🧑‍🍳 Contributor: Gusarich
🐙 Implementation: #388
🍽 To be released in: v1.4.0


⚡️ 1. Added bitwise NOT ~ operator

// Let's flip some bits! (~˘▾˘)~
let nice: Int = ~~~~42 + ~~~~27;

// ~(˘▾˘~)
dump(nice);

🧑‍🍳 Contributor: Gusarich
🐙 Implementation: #337
🍽 To be released in: v1.4.0


⚡️ 2. Added &=, |= and ^= operators

They combine operations (&, |, ^) with an assignment, so that you can move from this:

a = a & 01000101; // bitwise AND
b = b | 01000101; // bitwise OR
c = c ^ 01000101; // bitwise XOR

To this:

a &= 01000101;
b |= 01000101;
c ^= 01000101;

🧑‍🍳🎉 Community contributor: Alejandbel
🐙 Implementation: #350
🍽 To be released in: v1.4.0

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⚡️ Remember those weird lvalue expected before ~load_int errors?

Like, when you tried to write this:

beginCell().storeInt(42, 7).asSlice().loadInt(7);

Or something similar, but still got that error?

✅ Well, not anymore!

Now you can freely use .load() or any other extension function on Slices and compile your code successfully!

🧑‍🍳 Contributor: Gusarich
👉 Released in: v1.3.1
🆙 To upgrade your projects, use npm upgrade, or a similar command in other Node.js package managers.

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⚡️ Debugging page just got a massive update: Yay!

Very narrowed table of contents (there's more!):
1️⃣ Description of general debugging approaches for Tact smart contracts
2️⃣ Reference to commonly used debugging functions of Tact
3️⃣ How-to: enable debug mode
4️⃣ How-to: write tests in Blueprint, with Sandbox and Jest
5️⃣ How-to: log via emit()
6️⃣ How-to: handle bounced messages
7️⃣ Experimental lab setup

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