[2023-04-17] Library and Engine Team Update

[jdunkerley]

• James: Added new number parser for the table which will cope with various formats and currency symbols. Add replace, trim to Column. Better number parsing. #6253
• James: Move write_json from Table to the JSON_File format object. Add replace, trim to Column. Better number parsing. #6253
• Radek: Continued work on the column function type checks. Adding typechecks to Column Operations #6298
  • and reporting various bugs/tickets along the way.
• Greg: Added split and tokenize to the Table. Add split and tokenize to the Table.  #6233
• Greg: Adding parse_text_to_table to convert text into a Table. Add Table.parse_text_to_table to convert Text to a Table. #6294
• Jaroslav: Aligned Vector and Array APIs. Consolidate Vector and Array methods #6218
• Jaroslav: Improved the performance of if then else. Speed cascade of if statements up #6255
• Jaroslav: Fixed issues with Any.== builtin. Splitting Gigantic EqualsNode into few Smaller Ones #6280
• Hubert: Complete Warning Extension functions. Add Warning methods onto Any to make working with them easier. #6176
• Hubert: Removing to_display_text builtins. Deprecate Error's to_display_text builtin methods #6275
• Hubert: Treating UnresolvedSymbol as a Function. Type of UnresolvedSymbol is Function #6284
• Pavel M: Completed sort handling incomparable values by default. sort handles incomparable values #5998
• Pavel M: bench_download tool can now compare two branches. Add ability to compare branches to bench_download tool #6110
• Pavel M / Jaroslav: Comparison operators should not require importing Standard.Base.Any module. Comparison operators should not require importing Standard.Base.Any module #5610
• Dmitry: Cleaned up SQL version repo. Remove SQL versions repo #6242
• Dmitry: Fixed issue where cannot step out of the function after renaming the project. Fix stepping out of the function after renaming the project #6285
• Pawel G: Continued work to replace node text label with widget hierarchy.