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@@ -1,22 +1,106 @@ -This file lists future projects and enhancments for gawk. +This file lists future projects and enhancements for gawk. Items are listed +in roughly the order they will be done for a given release. This file is +mainly for use by the developers to help keep themselves on track, please +don't bug us too much about schedules or what all this really means. -Synchronize alloca.[cs] and regex.[ch] with the latest versions at GNU. -(this will likely be done as a patch to 2.11.) +Still to go in 2.13 +=================== -Convert yylex() to allow arbitrary-length program lines. +4/18/91: MOSTLY DONE: Make printf fully compatible with the ANSI C spec. -Allow OFMT to be other than a floating point format. +4/18/91: DONE: Supply a warning for: /foo/ ~ exp, /foo/ !~ exp -Make printf fully compatible with the ANSI C spec. +4/19/91: DONE: Fix CONVFMT and OFMT interaction -Make it faster and smaller. +3/19/91: DONE: move -C, -V, -c options to -W ala posix + +3/19/91: DONE: -W posix option, throw out \x + +3/19/91: DONE: clean up ifdef stuff, go to config.h + +3/19/91: DONE: -W lint option + +4/5/91: DONE: change from time and ctime to sysclock and strftime + +4/21/91: DONE: make /dev/fd checking happen at run time + +4/14/91: DONE: man page fix up + +4/17/91: DONE: Table driven built-in subroutine argument count checking + +Update regex.h flags for AWK and feed back to FSF + +Feedback alloca.s changes to FSF + +Brief manual clean up + +4/18/91: DONE: Provide a list of systems + a) where gawk has been ported + b) where it has run the test suite + +For 2.14 +======== + +more lint: check for use of builtin vars. only in new awk. + +Extensible hashing and on-disk storage of awk arrays + +"restart" keyword + +"nextfile" keyword + +Add |& + +Warn or fatal if identifier used as both variable and array + +Split() with null string as third arg to split up strings Allow RS to be a regexp. -Read in environment only if necessary. (Is this all that big a deal?) +RECLEN variable for fixed length records -Use faster regex algorithms. +Make awk '/foo/' files... run like egrep -Create a gawk-to-C translator? +Extensive manual cleanup: + + Use of texinfo 2.0 features + + Variables string or numeric or both + + Lots more examples + + Add an error messages section to the manual + + A section on where gawk is bounded + regex + i/o + sun fp conversions + +Do a reference card + +? Have strftime() pay attention to the value of ENVIRON["TZ"] + +In 2.15 or later +================ + +Allow OFMT to be other than a floating point format. + +SFIO based printf and other i/o + +Allow redefining of builtin functions? + +Make regex + dfa less dependant on gawk header file includes + +A general sub function edsub(line, pat, sub, global-flag) + +Add lint checking everywhere + +Make it faster and smaller. + +Create a gawk-to-C translator? (or C++??) Create a gawk compiler? + +Do an optimization pass over parse tree? + +Provide awk profiling and debugging. |