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Diffstat (limited to 'FUTURES')
| -rw-r--r-- | FUTURES | 38 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 13 deletions
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Still to go in 2.13 4/17/91: DONE: Table driven built-in subroutine argument count checking -Update regex.h flags for AWK and feed back to FSF +6/1/92: DONE: Update regex.h flags for AWK and feed back to FSF Feedback alloca.s changes to FSF @@ -41,32 +41,38 @@ Feedback alloca.s changes to FSF For 2.14 ======== +6/18/92: DONE: "next file" keyword sequence + +10/28/91: DONE: Warn or fatal if identifier used as both variable and array + +12/22/91: DONE: Variables string or numeric or both + +In 2.15 or later +================ + 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 |& -10/28/91: DONE: Warn or fatal if identifier used as both variable and array - Split() with null string as third arg to split up strings +Analogously, setting FS="" would split the input record into individual +characters. + Allow RS to be a regexp. RECLEN variable for fixed length records -Make awk '/foo/' files... run like egrep +Make awk '/foo/' files... run at egrep speeds -10/28/91: DONE: Extensive manual cleanup: +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 @@ -80,18 +86,20 @@ Do a reference card ? Have strftime() pay attention to the value of ENVIRON["TZ"] -In 2.15 or later -================ +A way to mix library files and command line strings for source code (-s?) Allow OFMT to be other than a floating point format. -SFIO based printf and other i/o +? SFIO based printf and other i/o Allow redefining of builtin functions? +Incorporate newer dfa.c and regex.c + Make regex + dfa less dependant on gawk header file includes -A general sub function edsub(line, pat, sub, global-flag) +General sub functions edit(line, pat, sub) and gedit(line, pat, sub) that + return the substituted strings and allow \1 etc. in the sub string. Add lint checking everywhere @@ -104,3 +112,7 @@ Create a gawk compiler? Do an optimization pass over parse tree? Provide awk profiling and debugging. + +Clean up code by isolating system-specific functions in separate files. + +Move to autoconf-based configure system. |