examples/yield: document --bench required option

has_i128 was renamed to native128

ignore .#*.pony emacs lock files

document the Gentoo packages

Correct String.size documentation.

created by the new emacs flycheck mode.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emac...

Says it returns the length of the String,
which one would assume is the total number
of characte...

Fix short options processing

we need to strip the matched part of the short option
but we forgot with the last remaining "-" ...

make: add phony targets, support verbose=1

Minor example tweaks

but short options do not work at all anymore

add install uninstall clean stats deploy prerelease as .PHONY targets
so that an accidental file...

Correct the pool used for the second pagemap level.

Use system linker on OS X

similar to genexe ld_cmd failures.

prevents from using the wrong macports /opt/local/bin/ld variant
to find the 3.6 llvm libdir for...

Use system AR on OS X

Options tests and fixes

let AR_FLAGS be overridden. i.e. AR=llvm-ar needs rs, not -rcs when
archiving byte-compiled code...

override macports /opt/local/bin/ar
causing all kind of assertions in config=release with lto.

Unit test for String.bool()

Fix PonyTest usage message

Add String.bool() function to provide String to Bool conversion

Updated String.bool() to use match

Add strings.CommonPrefix