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Diffstat (limited to 'TODO')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 18 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Thu Oct 24 22:11:44 IDT 2013 +Sun Aug 24 20:00:53 IDT 2014 ============================ There were too many files tracking different thoughts and ideas for @@ -33,21 +33,16 @@ Minor Cleanups and Code Improvements Look at function order within files. - regex.h - remove underscores in param names - Consider removing use of and/or need for the protos.h file. Recheck if gnulib regex can be dropped in - Fully synchronize whitespaces tests (for \s, \S in Unicode + Fully synchronize whitespace tests (for \s, \S in Unicode environment) with those of GNU grep. Minor New Features ------------------ - Add a div() function to do integer division result. Needed - esp for MPFR with large ints. - Enhance extension/fork.c waitpid to allow the caller to specify the options. And add an optional array argument to wait and waitpid in which to return exit status information. @@ -57,10 +52,6 @@ Minor New Features Make it possible to put print/printf + redirections into an expression. - Have pretty printing not run the program and nuke the - undocumented GAWK_NO_PP_RUN env var. Requires test suite - adjustments. - ? Add an optional base to strtonum, allowing 2-36. ? Optional third argument for index indicating where to start the @@ -91,9 +82,6 @@ Major New Features Consider a typeof() function that returns a string (scalar, array, regexp). - Fix the early chapters in the doc with more up-to-date examples. - No-one uses Bulletin Board Systems anymore. - Add ability to do decimal arithmetic. Rework management of array index storage. (Partially DONE.) @@ -124,12 +112,12 @@ Things To Think About That May Never Happen https://github.com/emeryberger/DieHard Implement namespaces. Arnold suggested the following in an email: - - Extend the definition of an 'identifier' to include "." as a valid character - although an identifier can't start with it. + - Extend the definition of an 'identifier' to include "." as a valid + character although an identifier can't start with it. - Extension libraries install functions and global variables with names that have a "." in them: XML.parse(), XML.name, whatever. - - Awk code can read/write such variables and call such functions, but they - cannot define such functions + - Awk code can read/write such variables and call such functions, + but they cannot define such functions function XML.foo() { .. } # error or create a variable with such a name if it doesn't exist. This would be a run-time error, not a parse-time error. @@ -139,8 +127,10 @@ Things To Think About That May Never Happen to be very important. Include a sample rpm spec file in a new packaging subdirectory. + (Really needed?) Patch lexer for @include and @load to make quotes optional. + (Really needed?) ? Have strftime() pay attention to the value of ENVIRON["TZ"] |