# \[ANN\] bitescript 0.0.4 Released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-bitescript-0-0-4-released/178009>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 27, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-bitescript-0-0-4-released/178009 "2009-10-27T22:58:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![headius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7c8e57/32.png) [@headius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/headius)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-bitescript-0-0-4-released/178009/1 "2009-10-27T22:58:25Z")

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bitescript version 0.0.4 has been released!

- [http://kenai.com/projects/jvmscript](http://kenai.com/projects/jvmscript)

BiteScript is a Ruby DSL for generating Java bytecode and classes.

Changes:

### 0.0.4 / 2009-10-27

- Multiple improvements to support Duby (thanks to Ryan B.!):
  - Add support for shadowing local variables
  - Interface and “throws” support.
  - Add an accessor for ClassBuilder.interfaces
  - ignore nil line numbers
  - Fix typo in line numbering
  - Improve debug info support
  - Fix class.stop to generate a valid constructor when one is not  
defined.
  - Fix void comparison bugs
  - Fix string concat
  - Allow custom classes to represent primitive types
  - Add support for big locals (long/double)
  - Add a static? accessor to MethodBuilder.

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